The only time I need to see how much range the car has is when the gas tank is approaching empty. On the Alfa it goes blank?????
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Maybe it is too inaccurate to be useful? The DTE (distance to empty) value on both my Truck and my Subaru are very inaccurate, so I simply ignore the read out.Yes :| dont know whats the logic behind that.
Similar to my wife's Highlander, I think the Giulia is very conservative in the fuel gauge. Also similar, I can load about 2 additional gallons in the tank after most gas pumps shut off. So, I'm going to do a couple of experiments.Can't tell. Were the fuel level segments red? That's what I got when I almost ran her dry.
Be careful doing that. Some evaporative emission control systems can be damaged that way and then cause mystery problems with the engine (extra fuel reaching the engine).Similar to my wife's Highlander, I think the Giulia is very conservative in the fuel gauge. Also similar, I can load about 2 additional gallons in the tank after most gas pumps shut off. So, I'm going to do a couple of experiments.
The good news, mileage is great....
Maybe all the fuel sloshed to one end of the tank so that the tank appeared to be empty? :grin2:On our QV we've had the miles to empty display go blank a few times while driving hard with about 1/3 of a tank of fuel left, and then return to a reading of 90+ miles when we are driving at a steady rate of speed again.
My analysis is that the blank display is caused when the instantaneous fuel consumption goes way up, and the system can't properly average it with the mileage from the rest of the tank to produce the miles to empty number.
I'm not aware of any other manufactures that has that "liability" concern. Hmmmmm, sounds more like a design/engineering issue to me.The value is programmed to go blank when the estimated distance to empty goes below 50 km.
It's a liability issue. So they don't get sued if the car says you have, say, another 10 miles, but it empties out at 8 instead. It's also due to the difficulty of giving an accurate estimate when the fuel quantity is very low: the estimate is based on a running average of the last few minutes, and since the consumption can vary a lot, the value could swing rather dramatically.
It's a deliberate design choice. All Fiat Group cars have always been programmed that way, ever since they've had trip computers.I'm not aware of any other manufactures that has that "liability" concern. Hmmmmm, sounds more like a design/engineering issue to me.
Both my Jeep SRT, go to "low fuel" when close to empty, and I believe our Merc GL 450 did it also....I'm not aware of any other manufactures that has that "liability" concern. Hmmmmm, sounds more like a design/engineering issue to me.
Paul