You don't wait to wait till empty cause it will burn our your fuel pump, but you don't want to never let it run super low cause you'll get crud settling at the bottom of your tank.
I died in 3rd gear cruising down a major road. I found out the hard way waiting for the light on my 01. There was no light. The car was empty when the needle hits the top left hand corner of the 'E'
I'm not going to risk it anymore. Car drives better when there's more fuel in it anyways.
you think they didn't have enough room in that damn gauage area to put a stupid light though...ugh. the darn FCs had enough buzzers that rivaled tornado warnings.
I have put about 11.5 gal in. At that point, I was past "E". IIRC, the car has a capacity of 11.9gal, and will show E (like most cars) when there is about 2gal left in the tank.
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