"Richard Goulding" > wrote in message
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> "Ronny" > wrote in message
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>> "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.
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>> > FYI... it's not good for your fuel pump to be running on "fumes."
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Pete
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>> >
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>> hehe, once won't hurt it I'm sure
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>> 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
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> You could plug in VAG-COM and have a look at the measuring block for fuel.
> It tells you in litres how much fuel is in the tank. I haven't check it when
> the fuel light comes on but it is something that can be 'adapted' to your
> individual needs (or at least on the B5 it's possible).
>
> Richard

Plug in what? Sounds rather intriguing...