How much gas do I have left when ....

[kbshaq]

... the last block is blinking and the fuel LED is lit?
Does anyone have experience with this?  The manual doesn't say much on this.

Happy Friday!
John

[karl utrecht]

I've had only one experience to help answer this question.

The gas light came on about 15 miles from home with no fuel stations before, so I was really sweating it. I eased-up some on the throttle (45 rather than the speed limit of 55) and hoped. As luck would have it, at approx 147 miles on the trip meter, I reached the station and filled up...there was a quarter-gallon left in my tank!

So, somewhere between 20-30 miles is the answer I have. Of course, your speed has much to do with it...at 65-70 mph I think this would have not been the result. Hope this helps you. I would never let mine get this low again if I can help it.

Karlu

[kbshaq]

Thanks, Karl.
I work in an area where there is only 1 gas station (4 miles out, but the prices are ridiculously HIGH).  I'll check today how many miles I can do with one solid block and the LED not on yet. 

I've had only one experience to help answer this question.

The gas light came on about 15 miles from home with no fuel stations before, so I was really sweating it. I eased-up some on the throttle (45 rather than the speed limit of 55) and hoped. As luck would have it, at approx 147 miles on the trip meter, I reached the station and filled up...there was a quarter-gallon left in my tank!

So, somewhere between 20-30 miles is the answer I have. Of course, your speed has much to do with it...at 65-70 mph I think this would have not been the result. Hope this helps you. I would never let mine get this low again if I can help it.

Karlu

[carmen007]

When your last bar is gone fill up the tank. if it takes 1.9 gal means you have .5 gal left. the gt 300 has a 2.4 gal tank. that leave enough gas for approx 30 -36 miles to ride.

[kbshaq]

Thanks Carmen. 
Well, it happened this evening on my way home, and Karl was right on.
My last block was blinking and the yellow fuel LED was on, so I gassed up.  Guess what?  It took 1.8 gallons so I had a little more than 1/2 a gallon to go - I could've gotten home on that. 

[NeoGenesisMax]

I dont know how much more obvious it could have made itself. It means get gas. Ive been tracking my mpg and mine always blinks at roughly 120 mile from fill up. I often get about 65 mpg. Every time I get gas with about 128 miles or so from my last fill up I pump less than 1.9 gallons. The gaugeseems to measure only 2 gallons of its 2.4 gallon tank.

[Scoota]

When your last bar is gone fill up the tank. if it takes 1.9 gal means you have .5 gal left. the gt 300 has a 2.4 gal tank. that leave enough gas for approx 30 -36 miles to ride.

If it means there is .5 gal. left, how much of that .5 is actually usable, meaning that you really don't have a true 1/2 gal. of fuel left to run on?

[alphaBETAdog]

If it means there is .5 gal. left, how much of that .5 is actually usable, meaning that you really don't have a true 1/2 gal. of fuel left to run on?

And probably not a good idea to try to utilize all of it on a FI engine and the flowing fuel is used to keep the fuel pump cool.

[samkay]

I dont know how much more obvious it could have made itself. It means get gas. Ive been tracking my mpg and mine always blinks at roughly 120 mile from fill up. I often get about 65 mpg. Every time I get gas with about 128 miles or so from my last fill up I pump less than 1.9 gallons. The gaugeseems to measure only 2 gallons of its 2.4 gallon tank.

Well...I don't know how obvious it is/was at all. I just got my GT 300i yesterday. I could tell that the dealer hadn't filled it up totally, because there were only 4 bars showing after I turned it on and it was running. Plus, I kept forgetting to have the mode in "ODO" instead of Trip Meter while I was trying to make the military time clock show AM/PM (which was an effort in futility because it ONLY shows in military time), so every time I hit the two buttons together it zeroed out the trip meter. The yellow gas light came on and the first block was blinking, so I stopped to fill up. 1.4 G. OK.

Today I went out riding and by the end of the day the yellow gas light came on and the first block was blinking. (Plus I still kept accidentally messing up/resetting the trip meter back to zero.) I wasn't right near a gas station so I was sweating bullets, going real easy on the throttle and hoping that I'd at least make it up all the hills in case I had to push the bike to a gas station towards the end of my trip.

Well, I got to the gas station, filled it up, and it took 1.65 gallons. So I still had at least 3/4 of a gallon left in the tank. As far as I'm concerned, fuel gauges on scooters are anything BUT obvious. Hopefully the third time will be the charm and I won't mess up the ODO (since I've given up the futile effort to get AM/PM out of a clock that only shows in military time) and I'll be able to get some better idea of what sort of mileage I'm actually getting.

(And speaking of filling up...this system used on the 300 is very odd. On my Yamaha all I have to do is insert the nozzle and wait for it to click off and done. With the 300, the bar that goes across the center prevents me from putting in the nozzle and waiting for it to click off. I have to go real slow with the fuel nozzle and check and check and check and check to make sure it's close to, but not over, that dreaded bar. Great scooter. Fantastic scooter, even. Nothing quite like it out there. But the filling system? Not very good at all.)

[yao]

I took a snip and carefully cut out that bar.  Not as clean as remove the gas tank and grind down the bar, but it works.

[alloo]

How many miles per gallon are you getting?

[coolpeople]

With the 300, the bar that goes across the center prevents me from putting in the nozzle and waiting for it to click off. I have to go real slow with the fuel nozzle and check and check and check and check to make sure it's close to, but not over, that dreaded bar.

I still have the bar in the gas tank, but what I've found is that I can push the gas pump nozzle to the right of the bar and at an angle and keep an eye on the fuel level on the left side of the bar. I watch the tank fill until the gas touches the bottom of the bar. It's not so bad once you get used to the routine.

[GRUB]

I can go about 85 to 90 miles before my last bar blinks and the low fuel light comes on. Because of the short range of the bike I keep a 5 gal can of gas in my garage and before I go anywhere of any distance I will top it up using a battery powered siphon. My guess is that I am getting around 65 miles per gal which is about 156 miles on 2.4 gal. OBTW I weigh around 220 and here in central Mass there are some hills so I will err on the side of caution and fill up or seek the next opportune time to fill up before I hit 100 miles.