What's the most gas you have ever put in your 5G 4rnnr?

SR5inSLC · 2013-09-15T20:49:45+00:00

It's not like I like to run my fuel tank to empty (A friends Dad always said "take care of the top half and the bottom half takes care of itself"), but I do like to have a good idea of the safety margins built into the dash fuel tank light and the computers range indicator on my cars. After 6 months, I am still working that out for my 2012 SR5... the fuel tank indicator light came on yesterday on the way home from my daughter's soccer game, and by the time we were home and I took it out on errands and to get gas this AM, the range indicator was down to 8 mi. I was somewhat surprised when the 23 gal tank only took 20.1 gal. I know there is a safety margin built into these indicators (and that they aren't that accurate, anyway). But I am curious... what is the most gas anyone has put into there tank w/o running out, or if you actually ran out of gas, how much did it take to fill the tank?

Thread starter SR5inSLC
Start date Sep 15, 2013

ArnavG544

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Oct 12, 2013

Viper45 said:
The warning light is based on 19.5 gallons. Refer to pg 568 (section 5-2):

For the range display refer to pg 195 (section 2-2):

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What is a warning light warning you of if it is based on the total fuel in the tank?

I didn't think about it that way. Pardon my stupidity, thanks!