Fuel range on reserve

I have a Defender TD5 110

Has anybody had the nerve to keep driving when the fuel gauge gets to the bottom of the yellow, and into the red?

I wondered how much fuel is left at that point.

lightning said:

I have a Defender TD5 110

Has anybody had the nerve to keep driving when the fuel gauge gets to the bottom of the yellow, and into the red?

I wondered how much fuel is left at that point.

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Mine ran out not long after the fuel light came on, but that was the previous owners words not mine! However you risk sucking up all the crap

20 litre jerry can in the boot and drive the car as soon as it starts to falter pull over and you have your answer.

I don't really let it get to the red!

risk sucking up shyte!

I keep a bath sponge in my fuel tank, if I run out of fuel...a quick squeeze and I'm on my way again.

Once when i was totally skint. Roughly 50 miles before it read empty!

99.9% I fill up before it hits yellow

My orange fuel warning light came on once late on a Sunday near the summer isles on NW coast of Scotland. Made it all the way back to Inverness some 60+ miles toeing a trailer of kayaks.

I pretty much run as close to completely empty as I physically dare to. But that's in a 200tdi.

I had to fit a new fuel sender, now the light comes on way to soon.

Henry_b said:

I don't really let it get to the red!

risk sucking up shyte!

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Agree what's the point...second fuel strike this year here filled tank 7 days ago before drivers striked filled up today brimmed it and filled 5k can and still didn't use the gov 25l limit up...

Mine’s been in the red a couple of times, not deliberately but due to a detour on the way back from Scotland and service stations closed.
After the fuel warning light came on it took about 25 miles to get through the yellow and into the red on the gauge and it was still going.

At that point my bottle went, and l stopped and put in my emergency 5 litres of fuel.

I can usually get around 42 litres into the tank after the warning light comes on - if the tank really is 52 litres, that leaves you 10 litres/just over 2 gallons to play with.

My fuel light starts to flicker at half ful!!!! to be honest I tend to keep it topped up from half anyway- makes me feel better

They do vary a bit depending on the angle of the wire on which the sender float is mounted. my first fuel pump left you loads of capacity, whereas my second fuel pup did not. So much so that I took it out and bent the wire so as to give me a little more reserve. I'm not too worried about it sucking up any more crap than usual when the fuel is low because the plastic mesh on the bottom of he TD5's fuel pump is held against the bottom of the tank with stiff spring anyway, so it is always drawing fuel from the sediment layer.

I don't tend to trust the fuel gauge at all due to the problems mentioned above and instead judge it on mileage, resetting every fuel up. I can get 400 out of the tank in the 110 and 200 out of the series SWB but both of those mileages are at it is now completely empty and beginning to splutter. So at 300 and 150 respectively it is time to fill up.