"My Truck Has Run Out Of Petrol" Competition!! - The Unofficial BMW M5 Messageboard (m5board.com)

IvanDias · 27th August 2003, 22:39

The car "kicked", a single stutter 600 metres away from the Petrol Station, while going round a roundabout. Then, back on the straight road, the engine didn`t miss a beat!

The OBCs range function had given up at just under 10 miles range, flashing "- - -".

I always got annoyed that when I used to fill up with 33 miles on the range meter it only took 60 litres or so.

So I`ve filled up, going to run it til empty and then unlock and calibrate the fuel consumption bit of the computer.

So, here`s the eye-watering receipt for a tank of fuel for an M5 !!

Firstly, hello America and the oil-producing Arab countries!! Our wonderful English government taxes us blind on fuel, so this little receipt is £72.28, that`s a numbing €104.41 or $113.59

Competition time !!

It`s a 90 litre tank on an M5, and I pumped 89.34 litres in.

That means I was running on 660ml, that`s two coke cans of fuel!!

Now has anyone got a bill with more fuel on it for an E34?

Drive around if you dare, OBC screaming "---", use your judgement for when to make that pitstop!!

Here`s the rules !!

No driving about till you run out, then a splash from a can before hitting the garage!

No siphoning it out!

The car must get to the garage under it`s own power!! No pushing it down the road when you`ve run out!!

No cheating filling up two cars, balancing the fuel out to show a bigger receipt!!

And no, you can`t count any jerrycans in the total!!

I`ve painted out my credit card number, expiry and the authorisation code. No photoshopping anything else!!

It`s just a little fun, if you cheat you`ll know your bill isn`t real !!

Good Luck !!!

Ivan.

PS. If all the crap from the bottom of the tank clogs your engine, well, that`ll teach you to remember to change the fuel filter on the Inspection II in the future!! LOL.

de Witt · 27th August 2003, 23:52

Nope, cannot beat that. Even right now with a GMC Suburban (im too oldschool to call it YukonXL), which has a 31.5gallon/114L tank. At $1.95 a gallon, well thats almost half...

***REMINDER*** If this gets political or rude, I will delete posts/get angry.

M5 powered · 28th August 2003, 01:49

Ivan,

Did you brim the filler neck? If so I guess the missing coke cans are an airpocket in the fuel tank OR you were parked on a slope!

I can imagine the face on the petrol attendent asking where's your *#**ing truck?

The only other car with a bill like that was my Farther's merc which had an extra fuel tank option. It was one of the new super efficient 40mpg oil lamp burners so a fill up went 780miles on the motorway but the bill was £94

regards

M5 Powered

P.S. Dewitt, everything in life is political!

IvanDias · 28th August 2003, 01:54

No, sorry Paul, you can`t use other cars.

The competition is to see if you can guess when you have less than two coke cans worth of fuel in an M5, then make it to a garage without running out.

89.34 litres to beat !!! LOL.

Note ; This is a fun thread, no-one is to go off on a mission about taxing politics around the globe. I`ll delete you!!

In the UK, we are just showing you how dedicated we are to the BMW M-Power marque, because frankly, if we hadn`t all been out in the midday sun, then we wouldn`t drive cars that do 18mpg at such a high cost per gallon.

UK - 1 litre fuel (Shell Optimax - 98ron) is £0.82 (€1.18 or $1.29)
Standard 95 ron unleaded is about £0.79

4.55 litres to a UK Gallon, so it`s £3.73 or €5.39 or $5.85 a UK gallon.

3.79 litres to a US Gallon, so it`s £3.11 or €4.49 or $4.88 a US gallon.

Could be worse, it went over £4.00 a gallon at one point.

Anyway, enough maths. This isn`t a petrol price thread !!

Yes, it was up to the neck, just where the unleaded flap is... !

Ivan.

mblaster · 28th August 2003, 08:42

All I can say is I'll never, I mean ever, complain about fuel prices in L.A. again

mblaster · 28th August 2003, 08:45

Hummm, I think I have a quarter of a tank left in the M5.....

M5 powered · 28th August 2003, 11:47

I just got back from driving round Florida and covered 2.5K miles. The credit card statement also arrived two days later.

As indicated and after conversions filling my 3.0 litre Ford hire car albeit on 87Ron (water) cost £9.54 !!!

M5 powered

jrturbo · 28th August 2003, 15:27

hi there

I tend to fill up with fuel at the last possible moment, my average on trip meter between fill ups tends to be around the 550 km.

My last refueling bill 2 days ago was 87.92 litres and cost me 73.76 €, from memory the most fuel I have put in the tank has been 90.3 litres I think. I was on my way to lisbon and the motorway was empty and drove quite a while at 250 km/h ( my girlfriend would not agree to be driven any faster ), before I realised what wwas happening my 1/4 of a tank had turned in to reserve light light and only 30km to empty range, I was dead lucky I run out of half a mile from the petrol station on the motorway whilst traveling at 70 mph/h and coasted in to the petrol station and managed to keep calm, I only told my girlfriend what had happened after we left the petrol station.

Good point ivan you have brought up, the funny thing about the M5 fuel system is that these cunning germans have designed the fuel system so well, that the car will not give you any warning that its about to run out of fuel, twice my car run out with out warning, when doing what you are doing now in order to calibrate the OBC, where previous car would cough and spluter for a couple of miles before dying on you.

regards

Joe Rubido

vadas1 · 29th August 2003, 19:35

Didn't the petrol warning light come on?

ralph (vadas1)

IvanDias · 30th August 2003, 01:15

No, light never worked since I got the car.

Light? Bah!!

Ivan.