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How long can I drive with a fuel tank empty indicator on ?

Ive always wondered the same thing?

i wouldnt dare to try to find out...its bad for th car emptying out

the lowest I ever go is 1/4 tank

it will kill your fuel pump so its good not to know this info

I like that answer. Yeah, if the light is on don't push it that's why it's built to turn on for you to re-fuel. But if you're the type who likes to run on E like my buddy who has a civic not good for the car. I try to make it a habit to fill up whenever the car is halfway fuel. Never ran out on my Celica so sorry can't answer your question. But below is some really useful info.

ToyotaCelicas.com
http://www.toyotacelicas.com/information/carcare/empty.html

omg that is so bad for the car. It lets dirt and all kinds of settlement get in the fuel pump and the engine. Going below 1/4 tank is a big no no.

Im always running near empty, Im just cheap i guess, but havent gotten stuck yet

i always run to around 3 bars

i have gone 60 miles when it hit the empty signal...but i was doing a lot, and i mean a lot of coasting...

from what i've experienced, you can go around 25 miles when there are no bars left

This is what you do. When the light goes on, immediately go to a gas station and fuel up. B/c our tanks takes around 14 gallons (i think) by looking at how many gallon goes in, calculate how much was already in the gas tank. If it was 2 gallons, then its probally like 50 miles.

14.5 gallons t/b exact!

i wouldnt let my car go down to empty if i were u, whatever is at the bottom of your tank can do some damage to your engine...i fill mine up every half tank...

im sure its safe to run your car down until the light comes on. im sure the wonderul people at toyota have designed the tank to hold extra past what the indicator shows just so you cant run dry. i run my tank down to the last indicator or none at all all the time. i fuel up asap when no lights are up because i would had to be sitting on the side of the road with 4 ways on. but like on my friends saturn when his tank was on "E" it still had two gallons left in the tank

When the gas light comes on, you usually have around 2 gallons left in your tank. That is often times more than enough gas to get to a gas station from where you are at when the light comes on.

2 gallons is at least 40 miles or so.

yea i drove with no bars left so dont worry about stopping if you stil have 1 bar

Yeah once you have no bars left i would say you still got about another 15-20 miles be4 running out of gas. Sad to say but its happened to me a few times lol

don't screw with it. I ran out of gas once because the gauge was off by four bars. My car has never been quite the same.

Hey guys, I dont interested in your opinion on
wheather it is good or not to drive with empty
tank !
I know it is bad and so you can damage your fuel pump !!
The question was about your experience on running
with this lamp on
some statistic.

well so far since i got my car (a month) i believe i filled up 3 times. ALL 3 times, i put it all the way FULL and ran it until it was Empty. AND i mean EMPTY. RIght now in my garage, it has ZERO bars left and with that i drove about 10-15 miles so i need to find a gas station FAST. im so dead. LOL i never knew it was bad for your car to run slow on gas so next time im gonna fill up fast.

Bottom line...

Refill your tank when you have anywhere from a quarter of a tank to 2 bars left. That should be enough gas to protect the pump.

The only time I run the tank all the way down is when I add fuel additives.

I drove to work on 3 bars and still had 1 bar left. My work is 40 miles btw

Right in my manual the wonderful people at toyota say not to run the car below 1/4 tank. Right there in black and white.

As for how far you can go... no idea.. wouldn't want to try, my brother's a mechanic and would kick my ass if he saw me doing that.

I've gotten well over 60 miles out of it from when that light came on. The most interesting event was at night, driving through the salt flats un Utah. Exit after exit on the interstate that had a big no services sign. Very frustrating driving 15 miles to the next exit to find no gas. I didn't think I'd make it. When I finally made it to a station, I put 14.7 gallons into her. When that light came on, I drove by rpm's not speed, kept it below 2000 the whole time.

i was wondering that yesterday wen i was on my way to pick up my gurl, i say i drove about 15 miles on empty no bars, i know it was bad but after i picked her up i pumped right up, with some vpower to clean my hole system

around 40miles

thats prolly because they dont want the wonderful people that buy toyotas to get stuck somewhere because they estimated the wrong amount of miles they could drive before filling up or just plain forgeting. filling up at a 1/4 tank is a waste because there is plenty of gas left before you will ruin the pump, but if you like to visit the gas station that much enjoy.

I Don't have a celica!...But i drove 22 miles on the needle being on EMPTY!...And i reached my home about 30 min's later...So that tell's me that i must have some reserved fuel left! don't know how
many more miles i've could have gone?

Well listen here wise guy. Why dont you test it out for us and see how far you get. Then you will have some statistics and you will not need to listen to our opinion on if it is good to drive with an empty take!!

Hey relax man !
But realy, few replys were offtopic
Actually, I got my celica not long ago
and I dont have much experience on running this car !
Besides, in our country celica not officially distributed
I am from Russia, Moscow by the way :-)))
and Celica was transported from US :-)))

exactly what he said

so when the light comes on there is still one bar left and you can still go after that dissapears? i've gone probably 25 miles

when the ligth comes on, its one bar left, i was far out in the country side when this happend and drove at least 15min after the last bare was gone

Okay. I own a 2000 Toyota Celica GTS. I am the original owner of it. I bought it brand new. It has over 215,000 miles. I habitually run it until there are three lines and sometimes even when red light goes on. I know from Downey/Bell it is about 13/14 miles to CSULA one way. When I would be at school, I wouldn't want to put gas out there because it was more expensive in the Alhambra area so I'd drive home and hit either Arco spot on Lakewood Blvd. and Florence OR Lakewood and 7th Street (I think) because it only takes premium. I have never run out of gas with my "Silver Bullet." Now, I also own a Crysler 300 and I tried the same thing with less distance (Atlantic Blvd. to just a hair away from Old River School). I ran out of gas a few yards from the Chevron. I had to use my AAA.

So I have never had any major issues with my little "Silver Bullet" except with the clutch and maybe it is because I used to race with it. I have probably gone through 5 clutches of course one wasn't my fault because I took it to a friend's friend, who was supposedly a certified mechanic and he didn't replace the fly wheel and it went out on me a year later but clutch was still under warranty so the shop gave me spanking new one for free. I had to only pay for the service from my regular mechanic. Still, I don't know anyone who has gone through as many clutches as me... :p