Flashing (one bar) fuel light.

For my pip I still have 2 gallons when the last bar flashes.

LT26i ? 2

 

I rarely reach the flashing point. Once you exceed 700 miles on tank, it's all gravy at that point. There's no desire to push.

This particular tank only took 7.9 gallons to refill...


I would have driven more, but the next day was July 4th. So, I wanted a full tank for celebrating, despite not reaching the flash yet.

 

I've gone 55 miles on the freeway once my last bar stared to flash.......however I don't haves PIP

 

pip has smaller tank than standard gen III.

 

did you ever run out of gas?

 

This still bugs me. Happens to me every single day.......can't stand those idiots.

 

I traded in the 06 HCH also. I used to run it down to all fuel lights off and knew I probably had about 60 miles remaining.

Since my PiP gets refueled only once a month, I've only pushed it to the flashing bar and then immediately refilled. When I did this on the last fill up I put in a little over 8 galllons.

 

i don't think the prius is like the civic technically, so i wouldn't risk running out of gas.

 

When the bar starts flashing, what does the "Distance to empty" display show?

 

2 completely different animals.

 

25 miles is typical for me, but it varies.

 

My last fuel bar started flashing today. I checked the dash and it said I had a distance of 15 miles until empty. I filled up and my PiP took 8 gallons of fuel. Full tank is 10.6 gallons - 8 to fill up = 2.6 gallons left. Why does the car only show 15 miles remaining? By a quick estimate I should have 133 miles remaining (51 MPG x 2.6 gallons remaining in the tank). My only guess is Toyota is being very conservative and doesn't want us running out of gas. Any thoughts?

 

Do NOT let your Prius run out of gas.
Ran out of fuel AND battery!! | Page 3 | PriusChat

 

If you want to know why that decision was made, there's over 10 years of posts stating reasons for running out of gas being bad and how often people do it anyway. Just acknowledge the indicators and you'll be fine.

How far are you going per tank?

For me, it's been +500 miles. That makes it infrequent enough to call it good. For that matter, it's more than I got with my 2010. So, even better.

 

There is no downside to getting gas, while there are many downsides to running out. I posted several in a link above.
If you get gas at two pips, none of those disasters ever happen to your car.

 

Lot of cars have a reserve for people that like to push it. My 2010 Ram has a 26 gallon tank. Drove it till the low fuel light flashed yesterday as a test and was only able to put in 22 gallons of E85.

 

This is consistent with all my past car brands too. With all the gauging uncertainties, highly variable fuel consumption conditions, drivers inattentive to fuel level, and long stretches of road without fuel available, they essentially must do this to keep out-of-fuel incidents infrequent, and to make sure the customers have no one to blame but themselves.