geoffbeaumont Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 How reliable are Disco (300TDi) fuel guages? Mine was coughing and spluttering and died on me twice at the top of the red today - was I running on fumes or had I just stirred up eleven years worth of **** from the bottom of the tank (my parents, who had it before me, live in the middle of nowhere so never let their vehicles run low)? First time I've let it get into the red - bit of a nasty shock. Especially as it spluttered to a halt on the same roundabout the range rover died on when the timing gear went...I had visions of the same recovery man turning up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 top of the red for me nowdays. was below the red before i dented the hell out of the bottom of the tank. thats in a 200Tdi disco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffbeaumont Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 top of the red for me nowdays. was below the red before i dented the hell out of the bottom of the tank.thats in a 200Tdi disco No dents in this one (yet...). It's led a relatively easy life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onions Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 As soon as the fuel light comes on I'm straight to the petrol station. Touch wood I've never had any bother doing that - the only bother I have is affording the £70-£80 to fill her up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LR90 Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Yep, fuel light for me too. Never done more than 30miles or so once the light has come on before filling up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffbeaumont Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 Hmm...fuel light had only come on briefly a couple of times on hills. Sound like I stirred the muck in the bottom up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen337 Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 The Haynes manual says that the tank capacity is 89lt, but the most I have put in is about 80lt of Diesel when the red light has been on and I had to drive 10 miles or so to get to a filling station. If the capacities are right then I sill had 10lt (~2 gallon, so whats that about 50 miles) left. Although Im sure that it would be near on impossible to brim it with 89lt of diesel. The light doesnt come on untill the needle is really towards the end of the red. Maybe Imm weird or something, but I start to panic when the light comes on... Nowadays I fill at the edge of the red giving about 75lt of fill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Somewhere in the book it does say something about a certain amount of unusable fuel at the bottom of the tank (suppose it needs enough to cover the pickup!) and from memory this is 9 litres I think so if you are down to 80 it is probably close to suckin' dust... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 proves mines dented then. i have run out in the past rolling to the fuel station & still only got 75ltrs in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 I've seen a collapsed tank on a RR (breather blocked and caused it to collapse, though it wasn't that obvious) which only held about 40 litres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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