Petrol light?
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niccy b

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122 posts

185 months

Sunday 10th April 2011
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Sorry to ask such novice questions but does the noble have a petrol light? Any 1 know how big the fuel tank and what mileage do you get to a full tank??
All I no is mine is juicier than my old rs6?!?!

matthewg

1,396 posts

194 months

Sunday 10th April 2011
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niccy b said:
Sorry to ask such novice questions but does the noble have a petrol light?
parkersguide.com

snuffy

13,202 posts

313 months

Sunday 10th April 2011
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matthewg said:
parkersguide.com
A useful website if you like photography - but not a lot of use otherwise.

matthewg

1,396 posts

194 months

Sunday 10th April 2011
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snuffy said:
A useful website if you like photography - but not a lot of use otherwise.
the car version

perhaps it is .co.uk has capacities etc

snuffy

13,202 posts

313 months

Sunday 10th April 2011
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matthewg said:
the car version

perhaps it is .co.uk has capacities etc
Or not : http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/specs/Detail.aspx?de...

matthewg

1,396 posts

194 months

Sunday 10th April 2011
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snuffy said:
For most cars it does.

what is the capacity then?

D_G

1,938 posts

238 months

Sunday 10th April 2011
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I was led to believe the tank capacity is 60 litres but shows empty after 40 litres to prevent fuel stavation when driven on the track. This does seem to fit with my car.

Dave

BobE

605 posts

210 months

Sunday 10th April 2011
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D_G said:
I was led to believe the tank capacity is 60 litres but shows empty after 40 litres to prevent fuel stavation when driven on the track. This does seem to fit with my car.

Dave
Same as mine...

Chapppers

4,483 posts

220 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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matthewg said:
niccy b said:
Sorry to ask such novice questions but does the noble have a petrol light?
parkersguide.com
How very helpful of you.

60 litre tank, 40-45 litres "full" to "empty" and no petrol light.

Adrian W

15,450 posts

257 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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D_G said:
I was led to believe the tank capacity is 60 litres but shows empty after 40 litres to prevent fuel stavation when driven on the track. This does seem to fit with my car.

Dave
Only on the later cars, at empty you have about 20 litres left, on earlier cars at empty, you are out of fuel, the reason for the change was so that the car did not go lean on bends on track.

snuffy

13,202 posts

313 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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My owners manual says about having at least 1/4 tank. I generally follow that; plus, it saves looking like a right bell-end at the side of the road with a can in your hand ( I've done that once ( not the nob ) and have no wish to repeat the experience ! ).

Chapppers

4,483 posts

220 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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Adrian W said:
D_G said:
I was led to believe the tank capacity is 60 litres but shows empty after 40 litres to prevent fuel stavation when driven on the track. This does seem to fit with my car.

Dave
Only on the later cars, at empty you have about 20 litres left, on earlier cars at empty, you are out of fuel, the reason for the change was so that the car did not go lean on bends on track.
What sort of range are people getting? I used to get about 190 miles but since fixing the fuel pump relay I'm getting about 120-140 and more poppy banging on lift off. It could also be since I've been doing shorter distances in it.

I don't really care, even with today's fuel prices, how much it's costing me because I can afford it. I just wanted to know for comparison.

snuffy

13,202 posts

313 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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I get about 18mpg, and I agree that I put about 40 litres in at a time, so that's 160 miles per fill up.

I also agree about the price of the petrol; whilst the price is a disgrace, I only do about 3000 of tooling miles.

R0162

2,435 posts

193 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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niccy b said:
Sorry to ask such novice questions but does the noble have a petrol light? Any 1 know how big the fuel tank and what mileage do you get to a full tank??
All I no is mine is juicier than my old rs6?!?!
Pressing the accelerator pedal is addictive and the cars can be a bit thirsty when giving it some welly.
The tank is longer vertically than it is wide, so the arm length on the sender is restricted by the width, the sender is top mounted so when the arm is fully down "showing empty" there is actually 20 litres left in the tank.

andygtt

8,345 posts

293 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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As Urb says the tank is half full when its reading a quarter of a tank... the last 20litres do not register on the guage, bit of a stupid design as thats 30+kgs extra thats being carried around.... I've redesigned my tank and fuel system so that I can safely use all the fuel in the tank.

I have averaged 30mpg in my car in the 35k miles I have done and get 240miles before it gets to the quarter of tank mark... even when it was running 480bhp it still did over 30mpg on the way back from le-mans last year.... it does depend how much you use the car though, if you only use it for short trips it uses a lot of fuel warming up etc so mpg drops a lot.

GTO600

1,877 posts

280 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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Since letting Dave at Jetstream work on my car the fuel consumtion is awful

TuxMan

9,011 posts

267 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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GTO600 said:
Since letting Dave at Jetstream work on my car the fuel consumtion is awful
laughlaughlaugh

daddysumo

2,545 posts

242 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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GTO600 said:
Since letting Dave at Jetstream work on my car the fuel consumtion is awful


Agreed, I found the same with Mr Yellowshed yes hehe

RobP

2,097 posts

270 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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daddysumo said:
Agreed, I found the same with Mr Yellowshed yesbiggrinhehe
Maybe next time at Spa you'll get 9 laps out of a tank smile

R0162

2,435 posts

193 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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GTO600 said:
Since letting Dave at Jetstream work on my car the fuel consumtion is awful
yes but the upside is, if you dont like somebody you can throw petrol on them, set them on fire, and then claim they got too close to the exhaust.