Fuel tank capacity
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Fuel tank capacity
My turbo is a December 1990 model. Does anyone know what the capacity of the fuel tank would be. I seem to remember seeing somewhere that the tanks were increased to 60 litres at some point, from 40 something, but I might be wrong. My 1992 model in Italy definitely had a 60 litre tank and used to read a range of 720 km when full in the driveway. This one read about 430 km when I filled it this evening.
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Re: Fuel tank capacity
I just filled up 62 litres, I did leave it a bit late
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Re: Fuel tank capacity
Brave!
1987 Volvo 480 ES, 507274, 217 - Red (Ness)
2006 Citroen C6 Exclusive 3.0 petrol/LPG
2008 Mini Cooper convertible (Mau)
Previous 480's:
J123 CFU -- ES
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F70 MNR -- ES
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2008 Mini Cooper convertible (Mau)
Previous 480's:
J123 CFU -- ES
J449 MNL -- ES auto
D864 CPV -- ES
L691 JFC -- Turbo
F70 MNR -- ES
H858 FGV -- Turbo auto
E981 KHM -- ES (509849)
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Re: Fuel tank capacity
AND lucky then!
1987 Volvo 480 ES, 507274, 217 - Red (Ness)
2006 Citroen C6 Exclusive 3.0 petrol/LPG
2008 Mini Cooper convertible (Mau)
Previous 480's:
J123 CFU -- ES
J449 MNL -- ES auto
D864 CPV -- ES
L691 JFC -- Turbo
F70 MNR -- ES
H858 FGV -- Turbo auto
E981 KHM -- ES (509849)
2006 Citroen C6 Exclusive 3.0 petrol/LPG
2008 Mini Cooper convertible (Mau)
Previous 480's:
J123 CFU -- ES
J449 MNL -- ES auto
D864 CPV -- ES
L691 JFC -- Turbo
F70 MNR -- ES
H858 FGV -- Turbo auto
E981 KHM -- ES (509849)
Re: Fuel tank capacity
I knew something was wrong when i set it to range and i could just about see that it said "fuel" instead of a number
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Re: Fuel tank capacity
Get your fuel filter swapped, once it’s been that low it’ll dragge all the dirt in the tank through.
Re: Fuel tank capacity
I have once run the car with nil reading on the fuel range and 1 bar remaining, and managed to get a stable 60mpg driving carefully to the fuel station...
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