Piece Of Adivce...

[ad318i]

...Check your fuel gauges!!


Mine ran out on me this evening had to push it 1.5 miles to find the garage closed!! ;'(

luckily i saw some random that went home filled up his canister and put it in my car... refused to take any money from me or anything...


...while the police just drove past and looked (waste of space!!)#



SO CHECK YA FUEL!!! Bloody tourings heavy!!

[mrLEE30]

...while the police just drove past and looked (waste of space!!)#

then you were lucky as its illegal to run out of fuel on public roads in uk, you can get done for driving without due car and attention = points and a fine mate!!

mrlee

[dobbie82]

...while the police just drove past and looked (waste of space!!)#

then you were lucky as its illegal to run out of fuel on public roads in uk, you can get done for driving without due car and attention = points and a fine mate!!

mrlee

yep! the local radio has been urging drivers to fill up before a journey as idiots keep running out of fuel on the motorway.

[dobbie82]

...while the police just drove past and looked (waste of space!!)#

then you were lucky as its illegal to run out of fuel on public roads in uk, you can get done for driving without due car and attention = points and a fine mate!!

mrlee

yep! the local radio has been urging drivers to fill up before a journey as idiots keep running out of fuel on the motorway.

that came out wrong! i am not calling you an idiot... promise!! was it faulty gauges or did you just forget? i forgot once and got home on the red, its 5 miles to the petrol station! i just about made it i think!

[Davenotouring]

its illegal to run out of fuel on public roads in uk

Only on the motorway?

[ad318i]

...while the police just drove past and looked (waste of space!!)#

then you were lucky as its illegal to run out of fuel on public roads in uk, you can get done for driving without due car and attention = points and a fine mate!!

mrlee

yep! the local radio has been urging drivers to fill up before a journey as idiots keep running out of fuel on the motorway.

yeah i was gonna say that its only illegal on the motorway!!

i got an e30 fuel gauge.... thats all im sayin

[mrLEE30]

could be right about that, it is normally only enforced on motorways but i thought it was on all public roads, even remember somewhere i read its illegal to drive onto a motorway with less then 25miles worth of fuel in your car, (as thats the maximum distance between serivces) but cannot see thet being enforced

and did your light come on? hate running out of fuel, went on a surf trip in the mini at college and ran out of fuel in a massive dip in a road (Actually two huge hills) on a back road round Bude, no one came for hours and he was on a tractor, the things we have to do to get a tow round them parts

mrlee

[fuzzy]

you pushed the car a mile and a half? wouldnt it have been easier to walk to the garage then walk back with a cannister?

[E30Mark]

drive onto a motorway with less then 25miles worth of fuel in your car, (as thats the maximum distance between serivces)

I'm sure i can think of a few motorways with bigger gaps than 25miles between services...

[dobbie82]

drive onto a motorway with less then 25miles worth of fuel in your car, (as thats the maximum distance between serivces)

I'm sure i can think of a few motorways with bigger gaps than 25miles between services...

yeah so can i, i see a sign services 1 mile, services 28 miles, look over and see my son is sleeping, 1 mile past the first stop he wakes up and screams his head off and i cant stop for 26 miles!

[ad318i]

you pushed the car a mile and a half? wouldnt it have been easier to walk to the garage then walk back with a cannister?

if it left the car where it was i would of came back and only the shell would of been left

[mrLEE30]

I'm sure i can think of a few motorways with bigger gaps than 25miles between services...

i think it was quite an old law back in the day when the motorways were first being built in ernest, the specs were max 25 miles between services, no doubt these days it has changed hence why the law i read about (if it was indeed true when i read it!!) is no longer known or enforced.

I would doubt anyone could ever be prosecuted for it anyway (assuming it is/was a real law) as some motorways these days are town/city bypass roads with drivers only goning a mile or two down them to the next junction.

mrlee

[Fushion_Julz]

could be right about that, it is normally only enforced on motorways but i thought it was on all public roads, even remember somewhere i read its illegal to drive onto a motorway with less then 25miles worth of fuel in your car, (as thats the maximum distance between serivces) but cannot see thet being enforced

says the man who obviously never drives on the M25....

also I reckon Heston to reading is more than 25miles....

[Jos]

I have no faith in mine either, the reserve light seems to behave itself but the gauge is nutty as a squirel.. I managed to run the battery flat the other day and it seems to have improved the fuel gauge levels lol.. <boggle>

Still carry a little green container with me though