Full Tank of Diesel Towing Trailer

Nice full tank of Diesel lovely morning sunshine wall to wall
I loaded my trailer with a Pinball LOTR for a trip up to Stockport
that I had sold over eBay and the Landy was super all
the way even up over the moor boy it was windy and
slowed me down a bit against the wind........
and did not get lost once it was a miracle
on the way back I thought looks like I can make back
on one tank of Diesel I was 4 miles away from home
on the A1 Peterborough and the engine just died
by luck I was in sight of a filter road and put it in neutral
and just glided up the filter road onto the roundabout
and down a small road I thought Sh*T by luck
there was a Extra Rest Stop just 1/2 mile away for
some unknown reason my mobile packed up so
walked over to phone home son-in-Law came out
with 5 litre tank and filled up next problem I thought
will it start OK or did the pump need priming no
after just 3 turnovers it was alive and well ....
Got to the Tesco garage and filled up

Anyway the moral to this tale is don't trust your
fuel gauge mine still had a small amount of red
still showing on the left side of the indicator but
I did do over 300 miles on that tank pulling a Trailer

its prob a hangover from the old days wif diesels, (bleeding IP etc.) but i never let it get anywhere near the red line.

and now you wont do it again will you?

what engine be it?

TomE said:

what engine be it?

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It bee a 300tdi

Happened to me last month,warning light had just come on, pishing it down,car full of kids,forgot mi mobile, luckily kept stopping & then run for half a mile stop etc.....managed to get me 3 miles to local garage

Why wait till your on empty, you gota put it in sum time!

I know but its just that little thing
can i make it back to Tesco's

I disconnected the warning light 'cos the ****er started flashing on 3/4 full!

I broke the fuel pipe on my sender unit and replaced it a while ago. I did a long journey soon after, London to Dorset and back. On my way home, I saw the fuel gauge and thought, "ohh, that’s good, we have used hardly any fuel, there is still quarter of a tank left". Five minutes later and I was on the phone to a mate to ask him to bring a jerry can of fuel..... Luckily a passing series 3 owner stopped and offered to get a can of diesel as he was going to the petrol station anyway.