07-26-2015, 10:55 AM
Yes it has been reported many times the gas meter is extremely pessimistic. My suggestion is to use either your a or b ( I use B) for miles on a tank and start going by that and forget the silly meter. you can probably go 50 miles once your last bar starts flashing, but you sneak up on it..go 20 miles and fill up and see how much it takes and reset your b meter then go 30 etc. Eventually you will figure out how far you can go and still have some gas left and use your B meter to tell you that. Hope I explained that so that you understand it. For example on my 13, I could go 180 miles on my B meter from filling up and still have about 1/2 gallon in reserve. I wouldn't wait until 180 to fill up most of the time, usually at 150 but I knew I could go 180 if I had to.