How many miles left in the tank when you fill your car up?

[Bubbleandsqueak22]

For me, I normally fill up with around 50 miles left. Curious to see what others do. And what’s the lowest you’ve ever risked taking it? I think I’d start sweating it had anything less than 20 miles left, but my dad regularly takes his lower!

50 after cutting it very fine once when the local petrol stations were all out/closed for refuelling

We were on 0 the other day!

I usually fill up when the light comes on though. Depending on which car I’m in that would mean either about 30 miles or 50.

10 miles

0 and I never fill up as I can't afford it.

I like to fill up when the tank's a quarter full, but I once went to Costco for fuel and had 6 miles left - I wanted to get as much cheap fuel as I could 😁

Around 30

Because of where I live (remote) I start to get twitchy when my petrol drops to half a tank. There are not many petrol stations here and they often run out so I have to be prepared.

I think I was running on fumes once - never again! I normally top up when the fuel light comes on at about 30 miles.

When I was a teen I ran out of petrol down a dark lane and I was terrified

So I now fill up my tank when I get to the half way mark. I get anxiety when I get to that point so I have to fill it.

Erm. O the other day and panicked as drove to garage 3 miles away a nearest one

I think it really depends where you live. I live in the middle of a big city and will happily go down to 2 or 3 miles left because I can't be arsed to fill up know it's never far to a petrol station!

-5

DH might one day cite this on divorce papers.

I wait until the petrol light starts flashing which I think Is under 5m left.

I fill-up when my tank gets to half full. I can't be bothered with worrying about a low tank.

Normally wait until near to the warning light, it’s at 2 litres on my car I believe. Usually put £30 in at that point, around half a tank.

Edit: no it’s apparently 2 gallons when the light comes on. Quite a bit really.

I don't like making extra trips to petrol garage so we get it pretty low then fill it right up at a competitive garage.

50 miles or so. We are 15 miles from the petrol station though so we tend just to top up if we are near for other stuff if car is half full or under,

My car (2011 Renault Scenic) stops showing the mileage once it's below 45 miles of fuel left, and it bleeps & flashes at you. That makes me panic & fill up asap! But in our previous car, I would go down to 30 miles or so, did on one occasion reach 0 🙈

I wait until the last minute, my husband panics if it gets below half a tank 🤣

I try and fill it up when it dips below half a tank - it's a long detour to the nearest petrol station and none of them are 24 hour, so it's impossible to get fuel in a hurry!

I drive a Mini and the warning bleep starts at around 90 miles left!! It then bleeps every time I turn the engine on.

I get to a quarter of a tank, about 120 miles and I start to panic 🤣 I rarely fill up though, just get it back up to 3/4 tank.

This is interesting. I had a bit of a strop last week when ds had driven the car and left it with only 76 miles left. It's not like I ask him to pay for the fuel! I immediately took it to fill up.

My car panics more than I do! When the warning light pings, the satnav automatically comes on and highlights the nearest refuelling stations.