Hello NAMers,

I have a R56 S 6 spd and usually shift 2500 ~ 3000 rpm for a normal drive, 3000 ~ 3500 rpm for a fast drive.

I drove usually 87 miles before first bar went black, but some times 77 miles before first bar went black so I wonder what miles drove before the first bar went black other R56 owners?

 

Mine, about 135

 

tag/ do you have a R56 or R56 S? If you have a R56 S and you drove 135 miles before first bar went black that's pretty well manage gas.... wow

 

I have the MCS. The 1st bar dims at about 135 miles. On the other hand it only takes 135 miles to dim out the last 4 bars before it turns red.

 

The gas tank must be a funky shape for the float to report like that

 

125 is about what I see, which is almost 1/3 of a tank. This has been covered before and this type of gas guage behavior is very common in cars these day.

 

I've had the first petal go dark as soon at 80mi and remain lit as long as 100mi. But I do mostly in-city driving. A lot of city driving.

FYI, there was a good thread on this here: https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...=147535&page=2

Check out post #31 - basically, the 1st petal is about 3gal, 2nd & 3rd petals are 2gal each, then one gal for every petal remaining. So, three dark petals = ~1/2tank.

 

MCSa, 100% AC on, first bar last 130 miles, 100% highway. But that happened only once, 60-70 is my average in the city.

 

130 or so.....

 

Always between 90-100.

 

100 or so.

I enjoy using the "consuption rate" on the tach and the OBC on road trips. Sets up a good game of "stretch the milage". The only reason to drive on roads without hills or curves.
The absolutely only reason.

 

Between 80-100 miles. It depends on how spirited I am motoring.

 

I don't fine the bars very accurate...I can be anywhere from 70-90.

 

I have a MCS and it usually goes blank at about 70-80mi. The true question is how many miles do you get per tank. I get about 400ish miles per tank.

 

Thank you everyone. And yeah I just noticed there are many similar threads in here. I think I get about 400 miles per tank too.

 

 

That's ok, I'm secure in my masculinity.

 

The lights only represent roughly 90% of the tank. I have a OBD fuel gauge on mine and compare it to the lights and had at one point mapped out the lights to an actual gauge. The ECU reads the tank in percents and then in turn displays it via the lights in a incomplete manner. There is no reserve on tank. When empty, it means empty !

When the first light goes out, you are about 85%. If memory serves correctly, when you have 6 lights lit, you are 1/2 tank. The lights are NOT linear and to make a complete 100% gauge, roughly 2 lights are missing.

 

 

Paraffin, corn syrup, and sugar?

'Sides, mine aren't multi-colored, just orange. How'd you get your fuel "gauge" in a 3-color pattern?

 

1st bar is approximately 3 gallons, next 2 around 2 gallons each. Last seven around 1 gallon each. 1/2 tank is 7 bars lit/ 3 not lit.

 

Yep, there's another thread around here with the same explanation. The pedals aren't equal. Dan summarized it there.

 

Yes, a very non-linear gauge, and watch out for that "miles to empty" reading, which is very inaccurate once you're down to two or three lights. If the lights were proportional, we'd all be getting 1,000 miles per tank, based on the time it takes for the first two to go out!

 

usually >100 miles. I am at 430 miles and have two bars left.

 

On Scrappy it can vary between 90-110 miles before the first bar goes out.Low fuel light turns red at 60 miles remaining.