A tale of warning...

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Voguely

Voguely

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Hello all,

Just a quick tale of warning for all those L322 owners out there - DO NOT believe your fuel gauge or trip computer!

Yesterday, half way up a long hill and I totally lost power and rolled to a stop on the road side. Fuel gauge says 1/8 full and no warning light yet. trip comp says 80 miles left of range.

Police happen to be passing and stop. Say it sounds like its out of fuel when one of them tried to start it up, I argue 'how could it be'. Anyway against all regulations they sort me out a trip down to petrol station in the squad car and let me get a jerry can. Turns out it was out of fuel. Felt like a dick, but at least it wasn't something more serious and the police were actually very nice about it (helped that one of them worked for the same people I currently do).

Anyway, lesson learnt!
 
I have a P38 and it also has a similar problem. When it stands nose down with a low tank, it doesn't want to start. After letting it roll to a flat service, it starts on the second try.
 
Voguely said:
Hello all,

Just a quick tale of warning for all those L322 owners out there - DO NOT believe your fuel gauge or trip computer!

Yesterday, half way up a long hill and I totally lost power and rolled to a stop on the road side. Fuel gauge says 1/8 full and no warning light yet. trip comp says 80 miles left of range.

Police happen to be passing and stop. Say it sounds like its out of fuel when one of them tried to start it up, I argue 'how could it be'. Anyway against all regulations they sort me out a trip down to petrol station in the squad car and let me get a jerry can. Turns out it was out of fuel. Felt like a dick, but at least it wasn't something more serious and the police were actually very nice about it (helped that one of them worked for the same people I currently do).

Anyway, lesson learnt!
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What lesson did you learn? That your fuel gage was faulty?

Why would the Police be unpleasent to you? And why would it matter that you indirectly...........

you "felt like dick" cos you are 1
 
goonarmy said:
one of the plod works for the same people as you do?
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Sorry, should have said 'used to work for the people I currently do' (before he joined the police. I'm not, and never have been, in the police.

@ whoever said 'why would the police be unpleasant' - well I didn't say they would be, what I said is that they went out of their way to helpm, rather than just follow the rule book, which would have been to call a recovery company for me at a cost of £150. Which they would have been within their power to do as I was on a duel carrageway.

@simon1975 - 'because you are 1' - really? Have you ever met me? No. Then keep your uninformed opinion to yourself. Nobody is impressed by forum hardmen gobbing off behind the anomity of the internet.

@whoever asked about the range on the flat - I was reading about the same, still well over 1/8, no warning light.

I think the trip computer was tricked by itself because I had done a long motorway journey averaging over 20mpg, so based on that average rate it worked out I had X miles to go, whereas going up some long hill I was probably doing way less than 20mpg. But as for the actual fuel guage needle - who knows, maybe its faulty, or maybe the hill did cause it to run out (anyone know where the line out/pump is on a L322 fuel tank, I guess if its at the front and the petrol was sitting at the back going up a hill then that may cause it)
 
Voguely said:
what I said is that they went out of their way to helpm, rather than just follow the rule book, which would have been to call a recovery company for me at a cost of £150. Which they would have been within their power to do as I was on a duel carrageway.
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Not true even if you break down on a Motorway you have the right to organise your own recovery. That can include getting a friend to tow you withb a towrope to a place of safety..
 
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