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Old 11-24-2005, 09:17 PM
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Default Warning Light at 260 miles (Original Dealer "Free"

Gas warning light went on today for the first time (Some where around bit less than quarter tank I think). Picked up the car last thursay, be week tomorrow and full tank = around 260 miles till warning goes off. (Warning Light for Gas= Yellow)

I think Im at least Ave 30 Plus miles per gallon.
Ihave not looked at tank capacity yet.


Nice to know it works, and cool to see new light come on first time

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Old 11-25-2005, 01:53 AM
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Mine comes on at about 285-300 ish depending on how I drive and what fuel I use.

If my calculations are correct if you filled up when the warning light went off you should have got somewhere around 9.5 gallons which would be just over 27MPG not 30
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Old 11-25-2005, 02:36 AM
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Gas lite came on today. Filled up with 9.5 gallons, 305 miles= 31 MPG.

This was second tank. First tank got 27 MPG. Give it a while to break in, your MPG will increase.
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Mine didnt increase until I had about 2800 miles on.

Now I get 30-32 on average. Except when I put cheap Tesoro gas in it. Mileage drops 2 per gallon. Shell and Chevron seem to work best for me.....
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Old 11-25-2005, 08:49 PM
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Default First fill up

First fill up took 9.2 galons

270 / 9.2 = 29.3

Im happy with this for now
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Old 11-26-2005, 01:36 AM
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Well I was just guessing, 9.2, 9.5 pretty close......
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