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Originally Posted by JACKPAC
I know from personal experience that you can drive at 55 mph for 20 miles after your car tells you you have --- miles left. I think I had 1/2 gal. left at fill-up. I wouldn't rec. doing this, but I had no other options at the time.
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That actually sounds about right. When you car tells you you're out of gas, you probably have a gallon and a half left. All cars are designed that way to prevent people from running out of gas all the time. One of the reasons I never fill up until the warning comes on.
The best running out of gas story ever was in college my friend and I were driving my '87 Integra to Lake Havasu. When you cross over from Colorado into Utah on I-70, you see a sign which literally reads "next services 110 miles". For some reason, I assumed that I had enough gas to make it. Finally ran out of gas 20 miles from the nearest town, up in the mountains. As luck would have it, I ran out right at the highest elevation. We pushed the car for about 50 feet, jumped in and coasted the car for 12 miles down the mountain. Then we had to hitch a ride the rest of the way.