Running out of petrol

[jmh740]

So after a discussion with Oh yesterday can I ask how many times you have ever run out of petrol and how many years you have been driving.

Person A run out once in 25 years of driving.

Person B run out 4 times in 30 years of driving.

Person A thinks B is irresponsible and most people have never run out. Person B thinks 4 times in 30 years is not much.

Once over 20 years ago so learnt my lesson

35 years -never. I don’t let it drop below 1/4 tank.

Does he want a medal?

A couple of times in my youth (driving nearly 30 years).

Though DH ran out twice in a year, one of those times stranding us at the side of the A1(M) at 10pm at night, 130 miles from home, so mine I feel pales into comparison.

18 years and never although got very close once due to several stations running out of fuel and the display telling me I had 0 miles.

Driving for 46 years and never run out

I ran out once when I was 20 and learnt my lesson 🤣

30 years and 1 time. My Dad yelled at me so I didn't do it again. I do still like playing petrol roulette though with the petrol gauge.

My petrol gauge doesn't show how many miles I have left

In 30yrs, none of my cars have either OP, but I've never run out of petrol!

29 years driving and never. Mostly because my first car became very lumpy/unreliable if it went below quarter of a tank so pretty much never got below that in any car since!

Dh been driving longer than me and often runs down to fumes. Makes me nervous but he's only run out once that I'm aware of (and I got a pub dinner out of that one while we were waiting for the RAC!).

4 times in 30 years doesn't sound too bad @jmh740 but it depends - evenly spaced over that time is fine, but all in the last couple of months is not imo.

Once in 48 years of driving. It was a doozy though, smack in the middle of Lewisham.

Once, about 38 years ago when I was a poor student and pushed my luck, was within walking distance of the petrol station to fill a can.
Nowadays the dash actually displays approximate mileage in the tank so there's less of an excuse.

45 years never

Once. 14 years driving.

It's a sad guage of how great a human being you are - topping up fuel in a car. I guess in the old days, it would be feeding the horse.

I've been driving 36 years and I've never run out of petrol.
My OH has been driving about the same length of time and has never run out either.

33 years and never.

Once in nearly 40 years, but it was as I was going into a petrol station and I had to push it for the last 10 metres! But that was years ago, and there's no excuse now as nearly all cars have a warning light - not like back then when you chanced it on the red.

It's a motoring offense here too. Fine and 3 points for careless driving. More if causing an obstruction or worse an accident.

36 years and never run out. I have always lived rurally so never go below half a tank as not all journeys involve passing a garage.

47 years, never run out of fuel.

48 years and never run out even when I had a car with a faulty petrol gauge.

20 years and never run out. I've come close once or twice and it's not a good feeling!

Never have. Never will.

It's one of my stresses and I never let my car go below 75 miles left without filling it up.

26 years: Never