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[bigphil1]

Does anyone know how much fuel there is in the tank when the light comes on?

Phil

[Darth Loo-knee]

In my 3.0 about 50, then at 30 miles Range the 30 on the MID starts flashing

[Richard A]

At the first sign of the "red" indicator it shows - 50 miles distance, however I have "never" in over 500,000 miles of driving a number of Omega's put more than 67 litres in the tank from empty, I once drove for over 40 miles with the "Range" flashing '00' miles and then only 66 litres filled the 75 litre tank. Very rare for anyone, unless a complete idiot to run out of fuel in an Omega.
regards
richard

[MutantCav]

I disagree Richard...have run out of fuel before relying on the miles to go...still said I had 10 miles left...its a guide, not always accurate and if its out the wrong way then you can end up in trouble...

[Mike Collins]

I noticed that on the Opel scan software, there is a page to calibrate the range information.

I have not yet investigated it, anyone tried?

[Iainv6]

In my 3.0 about 50, then at 30 miles Range the 30 on the MID starts flashing

That is pretty much what my 2.5v6 does, MID on at 50 then flashy dash bulb at 25-30.

Going by my MID's MPG numbers, ie. 24.9, then i have allways took it to mean 2 Gallons left, then 1Gallon when the dash goes epileptic

Having said that, it would surprise me if VX had not put a little slack into the tank.

Iain

[Sipey]

At the first sign of the "red" indicator it shows - 50 miles distance, however I have "never" in over 500,000 miles of driving a number of Omega's put more than 67 litres in the tank from empty, I once drove for over 40 miles with the "Range" flashing '00' miles and then only 66 litres filled the 75 litre tank. Very rare for anyone, unless a complete idiot to run out of fuel in an Omega.
regards
richard

It's official, I am an idiot  

[Neil_MV6]

I went down to zero miles indicated and also only managed to squeeze 67 litres back in, so there was still 8 litres in the tank when showing empty.  

[davlad22]

Be warned, we parked a DTi up with around 7 miles indicated on the display, came back to it later that evening, would it start, would it hell!

......of course, we had parked it on a verge with a horizontal incline. doh! Bit of juice and we were in business again  

[vista]

dont think id ever take the chance of letting mine go into the red it cant im told do the fuel system any good so i keep mine at the quart tank mark all the time it makes common sence to many times iv seen bloke walking up a long long road with fuel can in hand hopin theres a garage at the end of it an i dont fancy pushin my 3ltr miggy i only use my range guide as that nothin more as i guess no two cars are the same guess this is no answer to your question phil but thats the way i see it

[Andy B]

.... so i keep mine at the quart tank mark all the time  ....

I wish I could keep mine at a quarter tank all the time. Mine keeps going down though!    

[Albatross]

I don't think I'd ever take the chance of letting mine go into the red; it cant, I'm told, do the fuel system any good. So I keep mine at the quarter tank mark all the time. It makes common sense; too many times I've seen blokes walking up a long, long road with fuel can in hand hoping there's a garage at the end of it, and I don't fancy pushing my 3ltr miggy. I only use my range guide as that, nothing more, as I guess no two cars are the same. I guess this is no answer to your question Phil, but thats the way I see it

Blimey, you need to find the shift key and work on your punctuation a little; your post was quite hard work to read.

No offense meant at all, but it makes life very hard to decipher a splurge of lower case words and no punctuation. A shame really becasue what you have to say is valid and has value. It is just undermined.