zoomzu
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I have a '99 Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 V10. Build sheet reads 34 +2 gallon tank. I've had my truck for just over a year now. I fill up around half tank, so I have never filled up from empty.
I had fuel reward points to get me $1.00 off per gallon. I figured might as well get as much as I can at that price. So I was just off the empty line. I was figuring 30-32 gallons. It only took 26.6 gal. the fuel computer read 8.1 mpg. I had 218.5 miles. I did the math, miles to gallons and distance, it's correct. And when full the fuel computer reads 234 miles till empty. I figure it should be 291 till empty. If there is still 9.4 gallons in the tank, why is the gauge on empty, and the fuel computer shorting me in miles?
Is this normal? Have any of you had this experience?
I guess I could put a 5 gallon can of gas in the truck and find out. But I really don't want to run the pump dry.
I had a '01 Dodge Ram 1500 4x4 with the 26 gal. tank. The '99 definitely has a longer tank than the '01 did. Is it Because the tank is longer, it doesn't "seem" like it has the fuel to go the distance?
Any help or insight to this would be great. Thanks
I had fuel reward points to get me $1.00 off per gallon. I figured might as well get as much as I can at that price. So I was just off the empty line. I was figuring 30-32 gallons. It only took 26.6 gal. the fuel computer read 8.1 mpg. I had 218.5 miles. I did the math, miles to gallons and distance, it's correct. And when full the fuel computer reads 234 miles till empty. I figure it should be 291 till empty. If there is still 9.4 gallons in the tank, why is the gauge on empty, and the fuel computer shorting me in miles?
Is this normal? Have any of you had this experience?
I guess I could put a 5 gallon can of gas in the truck and find out. But I really don't want to run the pump dry.
I had a '01 Dodge Ram 1500 4x4 with the 26 gal. tank. The '99 definitely has a longer tank than the '01 did. Is it Because the tank is longer, it doesn't "seem" like it has the fuel to go the distance?
Any help or insight to this would be great. Thanks