4 Miles Till Empty

[gshase]

On Monday with family all on board....We were driving the Honda Ridgeline and coming back from the lake at night.... low on fuel we plan to stop in a gas station and it was closed, Holiday. The next station was a a good ways and we made it and the Lie O Meter said 4 miles till empty.
I know it was close but how low have you gotten? Oh and I was driving with a very light foot.

[TimT]

[ckelly78z]

Towing a 30' camper with my 7.3L diesel 4x4 F-250, we still generally get about 14 mpg. We came through a local town with about 1/4 tank of fuel, and I didn't find a good place to stop that we could get into without manuevering a bunch, so we headed the 30 miles home. After we got home, unloaded the camper, and unhooked the truck, I told my wife I was going to go get diesel at a station about 3 miles away. I made it to the end of our road, turned onto the state route, got up to speed, and immediately had to pull off. I ran out about 1.5 miles from home, and had to go get the tractor to pull the truck back home (air bubbles in the fuel line, and no bleeders).

[Adriano]

-16 on my 2009 Ford Edge

[dad911]

Honda Pilot, about 10 miles past zero.....

[wildthing]

I've driven at least 20 more miles with the estimated miles in tank already at 0.

Before those onboard calculators, I've driven with the light on for miles, and the line was below E.

[pete3799]

One of our kids used our car (2001 Highlander) and dropped it off at our house when she was done. I get in it the next day and the low fuel light is on......no idea how long it's been on.
The nearest station is 6 miles. Got within a mile and it starts to sputter. I swerved back and forth
and managed to slosh up enough fuel to make it.

[URY914]

Yep below zero in a pickup.
Don't believe everything a machine tells you.

[rockfan4]

Volkswagen takes away 5 miles of range every time you stop / restart the car.
I'm driving to work, it dings - 30 miles to go.
Start it up to go home, it says 25, I get home, it says 20. OK.
Start it up to go back to work, I have 15, get to work it is down to 10.
Start it at work, I'm down to 5, gas station is less than a mile away, it goes to 0 before I get there. Haven't pushed it to see if it will go negative.

Used to have a 2002 Saab 9-3 Se.
Coming home I thought I had plenty of range, ran out with 21 miles of range showing. Coasted / sputtered into a gas station.

[GothingNC]

I ran out of gas across the street from a gas station in my old 72 Beetle. Had just enough momentum to coast up to the pumps.

Phew...

[LWJ]

1980 f250. Gauge shows 1/8 tank and you're walking. Did that twice!

[Paul LeFevre]

2002 bmw 540. Ran it to 0

[rusnak]

Ha! I have a 454 Chevy big block as my DD. I regularly drive until the engine cuts out and I have to re-start, preferably facing uphill.

It doesn't burn gas as much as it sprays it on the ground and floats on it like a barge.

[JackDidley]

My old Vette was showing 6 when I ran out one night. Had to walk a mile or so, no big deal. Ive run out at least 10 times in my life . I like walking. Never really bothers me. Sometimes I take a calculated risk and lose. If it did bother me I'd fill up at 1/4 tank. Ran my buddies truck down to 9 miles and he had a cow. That was a few years ago and I still laugh about it and he still gets mad.

[fred cook]

Got my Ford Diesel Excursion down to 1 mile to empty once! I put almost 44 gallons of fuel in when I filled it up! When in college, I had a 1952 Ford with a 289 engine. I ran out of gas once but had enough momentum to coast into a gas station! I guess you could call that 0 miles to empty!

[daepp]

2008 Lexus - several times been close to -30.

2016 Explorer TT - been at least -5

So it goes...

[look 171]

Loaned my old Dodge Diesel to my Bro-in law. It was topped off for him but when I go and drive it a couple of weeks later, I noticed it was on empty as I was driving down the fwy 20 min into my lovey journty. This was a time when diesel was not carried by most gas stations. I pulled off and has no idea where to fuel up. Passed by gas stations one after an other but not one of them carried diesel. I finally sputter, sputter and pulled over on the side of the road 1/2 block to an ARCO. It has no diesel but this was Friday around 7pm. AAA couldn't get it started and the tow trucks do not carry diesel. No one can get it started at the tow yard, because they didn't know how to bleed the system. What a PITA. I have never ran out of gas in all my years of driving. I have come close many, many times but never run out.

[ckissick]

Death Valley. Yes, I was leaving Death Valley with the family in my '83 Westy and the gas station I had planned on using at Stovepipe Wells was closed. So we continued the 70 mile south to the desolate little town of Trona. Both gas stations there were out of gas.

My needle had been pegged on empty for miles and I doubted I would make it to the next town of Ridgecrest, 20 miles to the west. The guy at the gas station in Trona was good enough to follow us so he could help when we ran out of gas. I don't know how, but we rolled into the first gas station in Ridgecrest, engine still running. The guy following us honked and waved, and drove back to Trona.

Yes, we were in Death Valley, but it was February and a pleasant 70 degrees. Still...

[Bill Douglas]

When I was a kid there was a gas station at the end of a two mile down hill. they said over the years they have had a number of drivers coasting in completely empty.

[KFC911]

I have zero excitement in my life other than pushing my F150 to the limit. Ran out pulling into the station a couple of years ago and coasted to the pump. I know, I know, I know...I dunno (why I do this )....