01-02-2014, 01:58 PM
(01-01-2014, 08:47 AM)soggybottom_imp Wrote: I have owned many, many motorcycles and cannot remember any that had a gas gauge that worked even close to accurate. Cars and pickups aren't much better. I always used the trip-0-meter. But inaccurate speedo's really get my goat and I don't think I ever had an accurate speedo on a bike except for a BMW K75 and a few later model Harleys, most are 3% to 5% optimistic.
They are all a little different. I ran a Chevy S10 plum out of gas at 3 am in the morning on I75 out in the middle of nowhere when the gauge showed I had 1/8 of a tank. That was fun.
Hard to go wrong keeping a sensible odometer reading.