[tanknetter]

After a bad experience being stranded as a kid when my Mom’s 1975 Buick’s fuel gauge failed, I tend to follow the odometer and tripometer as well. I’ve also seen too many fluctuations in the accuracy of the fuel gauges in both the Jeeps and Toyotas I’ve owned to ever trust a fuel gauge. Alone, anyways.

[riverdawg]

On my Toyota, the fuel gauge is notoriously “optimistic” once it reaches “1/4”. Fortunately, Toyota built in some redundancy, with both a round low-fuel warning light when you have about 3 gallons left, and a more ominous “gas pump” light that comes on about 15 miles later.

[NEMDF]

Me, too. I always set one of the tripometer’s back to zero when I buy gas, know when it is near 300 miles of city driving I will have to refill.