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[miniallsort]

i fulled my mini up on saturday and its o half a tank now is this normaly for minis to suck petrol like this ????


or could there be a problem




cheers miniallsort

[syholl]

If the car has been parked on the driveway then i would say this is unusual, however since Saturday you could have driven to the south of France, so that would be a reasonable return for your half a tank of fuel....

Some info on how many miles you have covered may help us answer this question...

[miniallsort]

i have done 65miles

[Big_Adam]

if you potter about nicly then fuel lasts a while but if you floor it, and i mean really floor it then you'll make the petrol shift.

but you might want to cheack all your lines and pump. if your is mechanical then check the oil. they can leak the petrol into the oil. if you can smell the petrol see if it burns. hell see if the oil will burn decently anyway. just in case. the only other things it could be is prehaps idle not set right or possably the mix is right off. but their only guesses.

edit.

65 miles and you used half a tank....hmm....this might be strange but top half or bottom?, i always found the fuel guage gives me weird reading with more than half a tank. it will be right full for ages then seem to drop. but thats just me.

i mean i did 160 odd miles on half a tank (998). you might want to cheack the fual tank see how much petrol there is, might be a bugged fual sender. again just a guess. i have lots of guesses.

Edited by Big_Adam, 11 July 2006 - 10:09 PM.

[minislapper]

It could well be the gauge which is not showing the correct amount of fuel or the sender unit has gone haywire.

Just because it says there is half a tank, doesn't mean there is!

Easiest way to check is get a thin stick (like the ones plants climb up) and put it into the tank. You'll be able to see where the fuel has been.

Edited by minislapper, 12 July 2006 - 10:01 AM.

[Jammy]

Plus the fact that the petrol tank is not a constant shape all the way up, the capacity in the top half of the tank is a lot less than the bottom half.