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OK - so we ALL know that all the specs say that it has a 65 litre tank - but unless there is another whole 15 litres hiding under the last bar on the fuel gauge (yeah, under E) i'm sure my tank only takes 50 litres!?

so what's the story??

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fuel lilght means you have 7L left. good for about 40 k's of careful driving. the light trigger level also depends on where the fuel is in the tank (eg on accel and decell, right or left turns uphill or downhill etc).

the ;ight comes on earlier in the second of any of those options above. in my car atleast.

also i belive that the capacity of the tank is 65 but some of that is expansion room for hot days when the fuel has a larger volume. hence why you cant fill the whole thing

OK - so we ALL know that all the specs say that it has a 65 litre tank - but unless there is another whole 15 litres hiding under the last bar on the fuel gauge (yeah, under E) i'm sure my tank only takes 50 litres!?

so what's the story??

I used to fill up when my needle got close to the E, which took 50L.... then one day i saw the orange fuel light come on. Now i know i can get prob 40 kms when the fuel light is solidly on (not intermittently on-off), and i put in about 60L.

So try running it down until you see your fuel light come on!

Generally I don't drive my car below Empty as who wants to break down which usually takes 52 - 55L from empty to fill it up for me!

The other day I drove it way past empty, fuel light came on, drove it with the fuel light on and it took 61L to fill it up... still had 4 left!!!

It sure is a 65L tank!

So weird how it is set up though, 10L plus after empty!!!

So weird how it is set up though, 10L plus after empty!!!

Thats a 100km roughly.. i wouldnt want to be driving long distance and then see the light come on, 10km later run out...

Most cars give 10L warning,

The last few days I was running the fuel right down just to see if my low fuel light actually worked as I'd never seen it some on before (only recently found out the dash actually has one!!). It finally did light up but as others have seen it will come on and off a few times at first. I filled up as soon as it started doing this and managed to squeeze in 55.6L. The most I ever used to put in was only 46-47L and this was before the needle started creeping below the last line on the gauge.

Yeah RPR33, i get about as bad as you, GTST gets 400 ish on freeway, 300 ish in town, GTR about the same, but my record was 212 for a nasho run

i thought mine was bad when i had 250 as a record you take the cake with 212....not that its a good thing

I got 512kms out of 56L last tank. Thats doing part town, part hwy, part ranges. Got the usual bolt on stuff to like fmic, pod, exhaust, BC, whatever, thats with the stock ecu.

Figured it out to be 10.9L/100km or in other terms 9.15km/L.

You guys are getting shocking economy....

it mainly depends on how u drive re: shocking economy

i've had as low as 250 on a tank

usual city driving, i see 320ish before it gets too close to E

highway, over 400+

but at the end of the day, i'd rather drive the car the way i want, and spend a few more $$ on fuel. who gives a shit, u dont buy a skyline for economy, or if u do, u wont enjoy it.

  • 3 weeks later...

I get over 500km a tank, my best so far is 521km and that was with the fuel light going on and off depending on what angle my car was on.

But then again, my car is running like absoloute poo atm despite my $1800 major service less than 10000km ago.

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