The way it was 'splained to me, and this works for my 84...the first mark is 1/4 tank gone, the second is 1/2 The third is 3/4 and the top of the red zone is 1/4 tank left. It's not "Reserve" but it's what is considered to be the end of the 'safe' fuel capacity zone from a German Engineer's point of veiw. The spacing on the gauge face and the relative size of the lines has nothing to do with anything that I can see..At first, since the first line is about halfway across the dial and is twice as big as the other white marks, I just thought automatically it was 'half-full'. And I thought the last white line was quarter full, leaving the Red to mean "reserve"...but someone set me straight... Don Hanson
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:23 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>wrote: > At 01:26 PM 10/20/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: > >> Say . . . that fifths viewpoint is a good one and it fits how the dial is >> divided up, nearly. The tank holds 16 gallons (US), the top of the red >> "reserve" area is said to be 2.6 gallons, a fifth of 16 is 3.2 gallons, so >> that's purt' darn close, too. >> > > May help to remember that it's really a 60-liter (15.86 gal) tank, > and that the reserve is ten liters. There's no mark on the gauge > corresponding to 3/4 -- the first one is what I would call half, and > on both my vans it's been pretty near half mileage-wise. > > Yrs, > David > |
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