1. Start in TO
2. Drive as far East as you Can go until the tank runs dry (no coasting after the engine cuts out).
3. Report number of KM on the trip odometre.
4. Buy Montreal bagels.

I had 545 km on the trip odometre and had about 1-2 litres left in the tank on fill up. The speeds were light, not much over 120 on the 401 and closer to 90 than 100 on the side roads.

Has anybody run the tank bone dry yet?

[quote:7b55bfbc30=" "]1. Start in TO
2. Drive as far East as you Can go until the tank runs dry (no coasting after the engine cuts out).
3. Report number of KM on the trip odometre.
4. Buy Montreal bagels.

I had 545 km on the trip odometre and had about 1-2 litres left in the tank on fill up. The speeds were light, not much over 120 on the 401 and closer to 90 than 100 on the side roads.

Has anybody run the tank bone dry yet?[/quote:7b55bfbc30]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=545+km+in+miles

I love google! I braved about 330 miles once, and still had 2.5 gallons left. I was surprised, but the PA tpk doesn't always have easy access gas, so I tanked up there. This was ~70mph no traffic. Lots of state troopers, hence the +5mph limit max on that trip.

-brendan

Has anybody run the tank bone dry yet?

Nope. I am one of those who starts looking for a gas station when the needle reads half full.

Learned that lesson a long time ago when I was a poor college student and ran out at 2am in the middle of nowhere and sat with my car for 3 hours until someone came by. I wouldn't have minded so much, except it was February and in the midst of a brutal New England winter. I never forgot that lesson!

[quote:ab7056dff7=" "]Learned that lesson a long time ago when I was a poor college student and ran out at 2am in the middle of nowhere and sat with my car for 3 hours until someone came by. I wouldn't have minded so much, except it was February and in the midst of a brutal New England winter. I never forgot that lesson![/quote:ab7056dff7]

Heh.

Had a similar experience under different circumstances. It involved the confluence of:

1) Many feet of snow recently.
2) Crazy rain
3) Rain + melting snow = flooding
4) Hitting a half-car sized pothole about 6" deep, covered in water on DC295 with my Taurus.
5) 5-10 minutes later, while backed up at the bottom of the DC295->50 entrance ramp, I tap the accelerator from a stop, only to cause the engine to BREAK off the engine mounts, hit the hood and fall back down slightly akilter, breaking the steering linkages.
6) Drive forward a bit out of the way (only way I can drive) to get my car sort of out of the way (as much as possible with the shoulders of the hwy packed in snow). That was the last time I ever drove it.
7) Find out what the backup is for: the railroad bridge up ahead necessitated a downward slope to rt 50. Which is now flooded. Cops are letting cars go one at a time, at speed, through the water.
8) Call state police to notify them of a stranded car in the middle of the road that can't turn (that's me).
9) State police can't help: apparently the Toys-R-Us (a mile or two away) roof had JUST COLLAPSED due to the snow build up plus rain and understandably, that was more important.
10) Call tow companies. Due to weather, they're giving 8-12 hour times before they can get to me.
11) State police close Rt. 50, and make all cars turn around and go back up the exit ramp...which is way behind them.

Ok, enough of that, the picture says it all...

http://brendan.org/P1010057_sm.JPG

Apologies for the jaggies: that was when I didn't realize the MS Paint's resize function was crap.

The rest of the story involved my dad (who works in the cab/limo business) calling in favors on business friends of his who run parking lots in DC, multiple tow trucks trying to get to me and being turned back by state police who didn't know I was there, etc.

All in all, about four hours, was really glad I'd charged up my cell phone the day before. Could have been worse.

-brendan

My gas light came on and I drove about 25 kms. before I filled up. It took 47 litres. The manual says the tank holds 60 l. so I probably could have driven an extra hour before filling up.

i would never want to intentionally or accidentally run my tank dry.. just not a good idea for any reason.. be safe and careful ya'all!

i certainly wasn't trying to do it, but last night i found out how much she can hold. fortunately i was traveling with another car who fetched me a litle gas.

she took 2/3 of a gallon from a can, and then 16.08 gallons at the pump two miles from the side of the freeway where she ran dry.

[quote:21bc6b21f8=" "]i certainly wasn't trying to do it, but last night i found out how much she can hold. fortunately i was traveling with another car who fetched me a litle gas.

she took 2/3 of a gallon from a can, and then 16.08 gallons at the pump two miles from the side of the freeway where she ran dry.[/quote:21bc6b21f8]

Doh. Looks like ~16.75 gallons including fuel lines. :)

Last time, well, only time I did that, I was wondering why my Taurus was acting all weird on the Whitehurst Freeway. Found out about halfway across Key bridge...

...luckily, I coasted all the way to the far side...but darnit, missed the damn light and had to push the darn thing into the hotel parking lot.

I had just *assumed* that car had a low fuel light, like my previous one. I was wrong. I keep a (not full due to safety concerns) gas can in the back, just in case.

-brendan

Why would anyone drive to Montreal. There are French people there!!

[quote:4330a5fcda=" "]Why would anyone drive to Montreal. There are French people there!![/quote:4330a5fcda]

Bagels man! The bagels.
oh, the smoked meat!
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