Celica Forums General Discussion General amount left in each bar on the gas gauge...

i was wondering what's the total amount of gas in each bar in the gas gauge & how much gas to to have left when your on the last bar..

seriously you should never let your car get below a quarter tank.

you can't tell, each bar is significantly different.

mine has about 11 miles per bar

I know what you mean, my GTS gets sucky milage. Lead-foot driver(s)!

I've tested the waters with my old GT & my newer GTS...

The first bar gets me around 64 to 80 miles, and then once that bar goes (which tricks me into thinking I'm getting great milage), then it starts dipping fast & I maybe get 15 miles per bar.

...and I have gone quite far down on the tank to where I had to be running on fumes. I got it not to the last notch, but BEYOND the last notch to NO NOTCHES! Man, I freak when that happens, but it has happened a few times when I think I could make it to work & back with 3 notches, but then they slowly disappear & I run out.

...when I fill it to the brim after I reach no notches, I usually come up with about a gallon left (13.5 to fill the tank, sometimes a little more).
...I don't normally push it like that, but sometimes I had to make it stretch before pay-day or just didn't have time to fill.

you know me

on a full-full tank, i get 72mpg, then 36, then i average about 24mpg with the CAI.

i whish it has a digital readout of how many gallons are left instead of this bar shit

I think you all are full of shit. You know they get MPG ratings off an engine that is no hooked up to a car right?

^^ who you talkin to?

i could have sore they put the car's wheels on those spinning things and just let it run till it dies but idk

hey does it seem like your car is faster or has more power when you have a full tank? it may be me, but it seems like it does.

My car also seems to go faster when I wash and wax it

mine does too!

Yea yeaa...

...and I also save lots of gas by having all my windows opened & my sunroof open instead of using the air-conditioning when I'm driving at 65mph on a hot day!

complaing about gas mileage ? man i have a 00 gts with 110kmiles and i still get 300miles on 3/4 tank which is 10 gallons so i get 30 mpg :-p

i just hate it when one bar lasts forever then the next one lasts like 10 miles

I usually top off the gas tank, reset the trip odometer, and around 80 miles I lose a bar on the gas gauge, at half a tank on the bar gauge I'm around 225, but then the gas light comes on around 360-380 miles. Go figure...

its not always the same mileage per bar...i know because i actually was curious bout that and decided to write it down... hahaha

HAHA i can relate to this

yeah i think its crapy because the frist bar runs forever and then the rest just zoom by

I love the first bar stuff and i hate the rapid decrese of bars that just seem to drop like nothing and all im saying to my ga gauge is why cant you other bars be like the first bar. yall suck compaired to the first bar. lol

Your car uses more gas when the windows are open and you're going faster than 45mph. It uses LESS gas if you are going above 45mph and using the AC.

I know, dude... I was being sarcastic (hense the weird face) based upon the few posts right above me being the same.

To most... it should have been obvious.