"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.
> >
> > 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

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