Thread revival I know, but better than starting fresh on the same topic
Right I only got my jazz last Monday, and it had a little fuel left in, so didn't fill her to the top till Tuesday. I did this (43.6L filled to the brim) reset the trip, noted it all down in my little mpg book (my dad got us kids into recording miles and amounts filled at every fill as its a good indication of problems if your mpg drops and you have the history to back it up).
I drove to work all week- 100 miles, then this weekend went to my parents - a 256 mile round trip with a little added for pootling around.
All was gravy! MPG display hovered around 47-49 all week long, I'm used to Eco driving having owned a Civic VEi the last 3 years which with a carefull considerate drive always managed 45-50mpg (not bad after 207000 miles
) and after the usual 70-100 miles of driving and the gauge not moving one iota it started its decent to halfway at 240miles.
Cool for kittens i thought, 45Lish tank = 10 gal (as in EG civics) thus if the mpg display is 'right' i should get around 460-480miles from my tank, meaning i can get home from my parents, and still make it to work a few times next week before filling again.
Drove home this morning (nice 4am start) and all is not well..... after 120miles of home leg (370miles total) the fuel needle was below the 0 line and I was scared I would run out!
I got home thinking maybe I had a fuel leak? a rusty fuel line split (happened before on a civic a few yrs ago) but couldn't see any spots of the ground after parking up for an hour, and no smell of fuel under the car.
Now I went to work at 9am, and thought I had better put £10 worth in just in case i had a leak so I could get to work and fix when i get home. Went and put £10 in (7.5L /1.5gal roughly) and now its showing 1/4 full???!!!??
Are the gauges this rubbish on the jazz?? I was used to the EG civic's being a bit poop and going up and down as you went around corners - however at least you could rely on the warning light to come on with exactly 1Gal left without fail and they are using 20yr old tech.
Or do I have some problem with my jazzle??
Sry for the story.
Rachel