I've put about 3 grand on my red stook and have noticed that each morning, when I get in my car that the gas gauge is 2 to 3 ticks down from where it was when I parked it the night before. I chalk that up to the fact that the gas gets more dense as it gets colder during the night. The problem is that if I'm 4 ticks from empty, when I get in in the morning, the gas light is on and it makes me nervous. I'd hate to run out of gas in the stook. Yeah, yeah, I can just hear some of you thinking, "Then keep the tank half full." I have this funny thing about wasting my time pulling into gas stations more than I have to, especially since I could be spending that time behind the wheel instead of pumping the gas.

Anyone else beside me notice the gas gauge difference when the get into the stook cold?

 

All I know is that my StooK drinks more than I do (and, believe me, I drink a lot!). Granted I use Vtec as it was intended, so the revs stay fairly high most of the time, but it's not like I'm beating on the car, or red-lining it with every shift. The other day, I filled it up with 93 and reset the trip odometer (as I do after each fill-up). By the time I had 6 miles on the odo, I had already lost a "tick" on the gauge. By 70 miles, even more ticks gone...

The damn thing gulps the fuel down... I think I'm lucky to get 17-18 MPG around town.

 

Same thing here, except my house sits on a hill and the driveway is sloped too which is where I park the car quite a bit so the gas gauge reads all over the place. I just wait 'til I get going and then after a few miles take the reading and decide whether to gas up or not

 

I think its because as you drive it sloshes around and the level appears to be higher...

Obviously, when it hasn't been driven its not sloshing around.


I get a similar effect when I'm on a steep incline or decline, the gauge will go up or down.

 

Your gas milage is directly proportional to the amount of time you spend above 6kprms!

I got 9.5 mpg on sunday at the track

 

Well, it could be worse... I could have a guzzling v-8 stanger or LS-1. Then I would have MAJOR gas woes to go along with my rattles and flimsy construction.

 

The density change will not be anywhere close to being noticable on a gas gauge. On a thread somewhere it said that the gas gauge is calibrated every time the car is turned on. So if it is started once on a slope, and then driven to level ground, it would read different if started on level ground. I've noticed I can get 1 tick difference if I start the car in the garage vs starting the car in the driveway.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by krazik-s2k:
[B]Your gas milage is directly proportional to the amount of time you spend above 6kprms!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Pinky:
[B] Now that is the worst gas milage I have ever heard from this car!

 

The gas gauge does seem to be a little sensitive and erratic at times. Right after I first got my S2K, probably less than 1k miles, my gauge went from 4 bars to no bars in a matter of 10 to 20 miles. It really freaked me out. I quickly found a station to fill up and discovered it was no where near being empty. Another time, I ran her on no bars for over 50 miles before gasing up. It has since settled down and pretty much reflects what's left in the tank.