Oh Dear Altziemers struck today !!!!!

So.. I jumps into me 9-3 to take the mrs shoppin.. (Knowing I have "A Little" Fuel) ....Checks me gauge, yeah fuel light is on but its nowhere near the bottom & the SID reads 29 Miles DTE ...Off we set ....

Half mile down the road ..bit 0f cough & splutter .. Naww!! bit of damp its bin stood fer 4 days in the rain....

drives PAST the garage & on down the road ....Cough Splutter [expletive deleted] ..it dies on me ... Sits there thinkin MMmmm!!!! Ignition Cassette, ECU, Summott REAL BAD all the time the Wife is doin her Corp Jones (From Dads Army) act in the passenger seat ...Arms in air screamin DON'T PANIC DON'T PANIC!!!!!!...

So.... legs it 1/2 mile down the road to my mates garage & borrows his Merc (To take Wife (Aka Corp Jones) home).....Rings AA whilst droppin her off "They'll be there in 30 Minutes" Drives back to mates garage & drops off Merc (Mate says "Arrr yer daft old fool yerv run outta petrol" ..then legs it back to Saab .... & tries to start it...Cought Splutter ..MMMmmmm!!!! sure souds like its outta petrol.....


AA Man arrives ...." Is it out of petrol"? he says ......."EEEeeerrrrrrmmmmmm Don't THINK so" says I .....So he checks the Shraeder valve on the fuel rail....& gets ......................A NICE HISSSSSSSSS OF .......................AIR!!!!!!.....

Pours a gallon of fuel in it & OFF SHE GOES!!! .....(At this point I'm standing at the roadside hangin my head in total shame!!!!)

SID now says 37 Miles DTE ....

And the Moral of this story is .......SID's tell BIG PORKIE PIES & so do Fuel gauges ......39 years of drivin aint NEVER run out of Fuel before .....

EMBARRASSING ?????? ...Yer damn right it was .......

SID = System Info Display (Fuel Computer in a Saab!!)

DTE = Distance to Empty


THIS would NEVER have happened in me P38 ......(It would have broke down well before it ran out of petrol !!!!)

go and stand in the naughty corner will you.

ffs you really believe the trip computer??? its an estimate ffs i have had customers run out with 50+ miles on them i've had a van say its running on minus fuel (done 5 or 6 miles on 0 miles)

G-man said:

ffs you really believe the trip computer??? its an estimate ffs i have had customers run out with 50+ miles on them i've had a van say its running on minus fuel (done 5 or 6 miles on 0 miles)

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I don't USUALLY believe the trip Comp ..but with it sayin 29 miles AND the Gauge being "UP" off the bottom .. Yeah!! I believed it I've run 10 miles on "0" before today & I once drove from Birmingham to Blackpool with a "Re-Fuel" light on (I saw it "Come on" whilst sitting in a traffic jam on the M6 near the NEC, completely forgot about it (OK I never looked at me speedo) from gettin out of the jam to pullin off the M55 at J 3...):doh::doh::doh:

claw you are a tit, but funny.. hahahahahahaha

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I'd take the ****. But I think you've suffered enough by driving a Saab??

redhand said:

I'd take the ****. But I think you've suffered enough by driving a Saab??

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Ditto

Hows the job hunt mate

Keith you take the bloody biscuit for that. There's always one in a group. Bet Marie was happy.

wammers said:

Keith you take the bloody biscuit for that. There's always one in a group. Bet Marie was happy.

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As I said Tony ..Marie does a VERY VERY GOOD Corp Jones Impression .....

I mean come on .."29 Miles AND the gauge off the bottom ...Nawwwwww NO WAY is it out of petrol love" ...

Marie told my Son Paul ....got a call ..Voice says .."TIT" Phone goes down ....YEP THATS MY Paul !!!!

Can you imagine the **** I'm getting now ... the times Marie has said to me .."NO I aint goin out in my car coz the fuel lights just come"

To which I replied ... "Stop being an arse theres 50 odd miles left in that yet it'll get yer to Asda EASY!!!!!!"

the hooded claw said:

Can you imagine the **** I'm getting now ... the times Marie has said to me .."NO I aint goin out in my car coz the fuel lights just come"

To which I replied ... "Stop being an arse theres 50 odd miles left in that yet it'll get yer to Asda EASY!!!!!!"

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I can drive around in the Rangie for a couple of days after light comes on. Now J and me know why your Rangie was biased to one side. It was so the fuel ran towards the pump inlet. As captain Mainwaring would say "Stupid boy"

put a gallon of fuel in a rangey and the display read " yer havin a larf aint ya" so saabs arnt all that bad!!