Trusting your fuel remaining readout?

[flhrci]

I wanted to trust my '14 SGS. But at 24 miles of fuel remaining I lost my nerve today. I could not let myself take a chance on goign 8 more miles down the freeway. Turns out I was wrong. Bike took 5.1 gallons of premium, so I could have done it.

How much do you trust the bike on fuel remaining?

David

 

[CrBear]

I got down to 21 today... Took 5.1 also..

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[Spazz]

I have been under 10 miles remaining a bunch of times... tells you LO RANGE under 10 miles left.... even had it spit and sputter on a corner... now that's rolling on fumes.. lol!

 

[flhrci]

I have been under 10 miles remaining a bunch of times... tells you LO RANGE under 10 miles left.... even had it spit and sputter on a corner... now that's rolling on fumes.. lol!

Wow! Talk about taking your chances. I would be even more concerned in your neck of the woods Spazz. Not as many gas stations in the desert these days. LOL

David

 

[Spazz]

Wow! Talk about taking your chances. I would be even more concerned in your neck of the woods Spazz. Not as many gas stations in the desert these days. LOL

David

I live 13 miles north of downtown Reno.... so it's not that bad... lol. If I ever run out... I have no one to blame but myself,

BUT!! I can say I have seen 237 miles on a full tank... LOL!!!

 

[paul65k]

I live 13 miles north of downtown Reno.... so it's not that bad... lol. If I ever run out... I have no one to blame but myself,

BUT!! I can say I have seen 237 miles on a full tank... LOL!!!

I got 267 on a tank once with 5.5 going in the tank, but that was when it was bone stock......now with the pipes, AC and FP3 I start looking for stations around 200 miles.........although when full it usually says I have between 235 and 265 on the "Fuel Remaining" readout

 

[Spazz]

I got 267 on a tank once with 5.5 going in the tank, but that was when it was bone stock......now with the pipes, AC and FP3 I start looking for stations around 200 miles.........although when full it usually says I have between 235 and 265 on the "Fuel Remaining" readout

I ride harder than most and hardly ever under 3000 rpms ( unless I stop.. lol! ) So I am no conservative when it comes to mpg's

 

[Mojo]

I never use that feature on my scoot.

 

[TomA]

Not willing to push the envelope that much especially where I live. Could be 50 to 100 miles to the next fuel. Have had the fuel light come on but was close to gas when it did.


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[Bsritch]

All that mileage reading is is an estimate, but sometimes it seems pretty accurate. Basically it takes a resistance reading from the fuel level gauge sender and makes a calculation from a base number on approximate fuel mileage, to come up with what you see.
I guess I'm old school when the gauge reads 1/4 I look for a gas station

 

[BluesBelly]

Coming from an older Softail with NO fuel gauge I am used to always setting a trip odometer when I fill which I do on the SG. I know the mileage I get per gallon and make the calculation. I will say SG fuel gauge seems very accurate. When it comes to fuel I don't tempt fate. I fill at about 1/4 tank

Blues

 

[flhrci]

I guess I'm old school when the gauge reads 1/4 I look for a gas station

I usually do that to but I figured since I was going home anyways, I would just get a little more out of the fill-up. I guess it doesn't really help anything anyways.

David

 

[drtybiker63]

I can say from experience That you can run on low for a good 5 to 10 miles , the one time I was in that situation I think I was way over 10 miles when a station popped up and it was just starting to sputter, I was in Iowa somewhere headed northbound on my way to Sturgis it was a sunday morning and the last two station I had went to were closed that day and the one I had pulled into did not open till eleven o clock and it was like 8:30 in the morning and nothing in sight so we just had to wait it out till eleven, was not so bad though we were haveng a liftime experience that not everyone gets. Hope to do it again but have other journeys to conquer in the mean time like Jax Fla to San Diego,Ca

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[Bluebowtie]

Coming from an older Softail with NO fuel gauge I am used to always setting a trip odometer when I fill which I do on the SG. I know the mileage I get per gallon and make the calculation. I will say SG fuel gauge seems very accurate. When it comes to fuel I don't tempt fate. I fill at about 1/4 tank

Blues

1/4 tank is empty to me also.


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[Bones]

My Granddad said when you buy a truck or car, to put a can of gas in the back, and run it out of gas. That way you know exactly where the gauge is when your empty, and you've got gas in a can to get you to a gas station. I never took his advice. I try to buy gas at a quarter tank. It is best not to run gas too low on cars and trucks, because the gas in the tank keeps the fuel pump cool.....so I have been told. It's nice to have the range on the SG. My chopper is only good for 100 miles.

 

[bugdewde]

I should heed my own advice........ note, with electric fuel pumps, the pumps rely on the fuel to cool the pumps. When you run the tank low, the fuel doesn't cool the pump as well. Fuel pump failure ensues.

Lots of Chevy Vegas fell prey to this back in the day. They were pretty much the first domestic cars to run an electric fuel pump. People didn't know how to care for them back then.... but that's another story!

 

[Korazu]

I normally don't let mine get passed a 1/4 either, but I having been using the remaining readout a lot more lately just to see how accurate it was. I think the most I ever put in was 5.2gals and it got me about 232 miles, where the remaining said I had 18 left. This is with a V&H Pro Pipe, FP3 canned map and Heavy Breather AC, but it was all pretty much highway miles and cruise control coming back from Rolling Thunder.

 

[Mojo]

When my fuel light comes on I still have over a gallon left. I just zero my counter at fill up and ride about 240 miles . . . . done!