Fuel Pump

[Fred Munro]

I think the red zone on the gauge is the remnant of the European "reserve
tank" philosophy. The older cars actually had physical reserve tanks - the
old VW beetles had a foot lever you flipped when you ran out of gas and it
gave you an extra 1.5 gallons. When they put fuel gauges in the VW beetles
(1962 model IIRC) they eliminated the lever and had a band marked "R" on the
empty end of the gauge to show the reserve. The '67 Rover I owned had a
physical reserve actuated via a lever on the dash that would give you an
extra few gallons of fuel after you ran out. The red zone on the Audi gauge
is very reminiscent of what VW did on their beetle gauges to show the
reserve.

Fred Munro
'94 S4
'97 S6

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Cody Forbes
Sent: May 16, 2006 4:25 AM
To: George Selby; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Fuel Pump


George Selby wrote:
> About a 1/4 of a tank.  In the early days of FI (the 80's) many
> Japanese cars were equiped with gauges that indicated both the
> minimum suggested level and true empty.  In my digi-dash 86 Nissan
> 300ZX, in fact, there are two separate gauges - a main gauge that you
> are supposed to follow, and then another gauge that counts down the
> last 5 gallons (it has a 19.5 gallon tank) when the primary gauge
> reads empty.
>

I would bet this is part of the reason the Audi gauge has the extra large
"red" zone, and from personal experiance the gauge will drop well below the
'E' mark a good bit before it actually runs out of fuel.

-Cody Forbes
http://www.5000tq.com
'86 5ktq
'86 5k-t-q -Parts
'86 5k-t-q
'87 5ktq - Fast.

_______________________________________________
quattro mailing list
quattro at audifans.com
http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/quattro
---
Watch this space for ads :)