McWRX

Hi All....

Sorry to ask a stupid question but a complete scooby noobie here!! Only picked it up last week - most amount of fun I have had on 4 wheels!!

I have a 2001 bug eye (with lamp conversion ) and managed to get 230 miles out of a tank of fuel... shocking. But will live with it if its the norm!

However...

Do scoobies have fuel warning lights?? I drove mine till it had 14 litres left in the tank and no light came on?

Many thanks!
Iain

ThrustSSC

They do. My MY03 STi puts the light on with about 6 litres left.

Of course, when it was new, I was learning about how far I got on a tank and when the light came on. It must have stuck slightly, because it came on when I left home one morning - 22 miles from Oxford South services. I got 21 miles out of it... :-(

Since then I've found I can get 30 at a push when the light comes on.

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

230 miles is a little on the low side, but I assuming you were pushing it to test the car. My 02 WRX did about 250, then needed about 54-55 litres to fill up. And as ThrustSSC says, yes, there's a fuel light. Mine tended to go on at about 210-220 miles.


M

McWRX

Great thanks.

Thats doing 230 miles with still 10-15 litres left in the tank. I have put my foot down a bit but not amazingly. car has just had it's 30k service at the main dealer before i drove it off the forecourt.

I have filled up twice and both the times has taken between 45 and 49 litres (At this point its on empty but no light). Am guessing it is a 60 litre tank?? If so i should be able to push another 50 miles out if am guessing.

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

Yes, it's a 60 litre.


M

corradoboy

Mine (MY03 WRX PPP) comes on with about 10 litres left, and if I drive like the pope I can get over 32mpg. I did a 350 mile run from Devon to Yorkshire last year on a single tank, and the light came on 2 miles from the garage. Filled her up with 51 litres, so I could have realised almost 400 miles from a single tank. One day when I'm really bored I might try to do that

scoobyjohn2000

350 miles???????????... was u towing it?

Jamesemt

lol - best I've managed was 29mpg, and that was by slipstreaming lorries...looks a bit odd in a Scooby!!

MadMark

Fuel light normally comes on with just over a gallon to go - I would suggest just over 5 litres as I can always get 30 miles out of it at that point! Although having once done 33 miles it coughed and cut out just as I rolled onto the Forecourt of my local Shell station!

In my 03 WRX I've managed an all time best (when running in) of 360 miles - but my average is around the 300 mile mark (28mpg), as I spend 50% of my time on Motorways and try and keep it below 95mph. Worst ever has been 240 miles which was mostly cross country at lunatic speeds (21.8mpg).