"Pete" > wrote in message
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>
> "Ronny" wrote
>> This is where it gets interesting, normally I would expect a reserve of
>> say 1 gallon max usually less from the point the needle shows red and the
>> cars shows 0, but my car is still driving fine 90 miles later, I will let
>> it get too 100 miles and see what happens,
>
> Whoa! Brave man. I once went about 20 miles past "0" and chickened out
> after that, but that was on a B5 1.8Tq.
>
> FYI... it's not good for your fuel pump to be running on "fumes."
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pete
>
>

hehe, once won't hurt it I'm sure

I just done another 20 miles and its still going fine, you know when its
getting low as the fuel pump does make some funny noises, my B5 2.6 quattro
would not go very far after it read 0 but this one seems to have >2 gallons
spare which is nearly 20% of the cars capacity