haha nah fuel gauge is BUGgered. been like that since I've had it. I did get it 'fixed' but it still doesn't work properly. I dunno what it is. new sender unit and everything!! I just keep a little log book in the glove box and every 350-400k's fill her back up 😉
well 400kms roughly. iv'e ran outta fuel a few times. the 10L jerry can is usually in the car at all times (unfilled of course....don't wanna blow up in a ball of fire). Yeh complete stock im thinking
I saw my old '64 do it three times, once with its original MPH speedo then twice more with a km metric speedo. My Kombi has only done it once but is due for 200,000 km sometime in 2012 I reckon.
My Golf Mk3 has passed 100,000 km but it wasn't exciting - its odometer is an LCD display and it just adds an extra digit! It will have to pass 999,999 km to get back to zero. Not impossible for a Volkswagen.
something i only found out the other day i dont know how many vws it affects but the mid 90s model jettas atleast with the digital odometer go back to 000000 when they hit 300k
till they get to that point they just say "total" above the odo
that dissapears once they reset
yeh i got tad excited hey?? lol. I must lead a boring life? Although that's probably the most coolest thing i have seen my beetle doing so it was worth taping it
When I had my bug it rolled over to zero just before I pulled into my drive. I thought it was pretty cool at the time. I took this snap later:
And the fuel gauge didn't work either. Ran outta gas enough times to the point where the last time it happened I had a full jerry can onboard (probably not wise). You just know you're gonna run out when you have spare fuel on you (I was only down the road from home too).
My old man had a Bil lCosby comedy tape when I was a kid. He did a sketch about how his son borrowed the car, and when Bill got in it the next morning it was empty. How could you possibly time it to run out of fuel as you pull in the driveway? Very funny. Except I managed to do it too at my girlfriends house once. I drove there, no problems. Went to drive away, wouldnt start. My fuel gauge worked well when full, then at 1/4 tank it dropped to empty.
"A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with courage." Adolf Hitler At opening of 1934 Berlin Auto Show
