Odd High Speed fluel gauge

[RS4U]

Hi everyone,
I have been reading your post for quite a time and am very much enjoying them, Thanks for all the good post...
Here is my little anecdote, it appended about a month ago.
I was droving from Switzerland to St-Tropez via Italy. No traffic on the Italian highway, so I pushed the pedal to the metal! (RS4 mod. stage II, no speed lim) From Aosta to Genova my speed never went below 220 and very often over 300km/h. [img]images/graemlins/FIREdevil.gif[/img]
As expected you could almost see the gasoline gauge drop...
Very soon the reserve light came the on. Seconds after, I passed a sign telling that the next two gasoline stations where 5km and 35km away. The on-board computer was showing about 50km remaining. So, no problem I'll go to the second one. Well, wrong… The engine turned off 2km after the reserve light, due to not a drop of gasoline left... [img]images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
I was at 305km/h... no more power steering, no more assisted braking. I managed to glide the car the remaining 2km to the pump, the car went to stop exactly in front of the pump. [img]images/graemlins/clap.gif[/img] What a luck not even needed to push it. The job of exiting the highway was so hard. The steering wheel was like a stone. To get to the pump I had to take two curves (Right then quick left) at over 100km/h. I nearly didn't manage it. It was so hard to hold-on to the wheel to take the curve. After filling the tank, (now I know that mine has 61.65liters) I continued my way to France putting gasoline just before hitting the reserve.

The fuel gauge seems to have worked in a very weird way when I am at full speed for a very long drive. This could have turned out quite bad. (Stopping an RS4 that's going at 300km/h with the engine off is hell) My on-board computer is usually right on the money (Slow Swiss driving) so I trusted I had 50km left when in fact it was more like 2km [img]images/graemlins/033102bad_1_prv.gif[/img]
So for all of you speeder, look at your fuel level.

Did this ever happen to any of you?

[kiwi_mtm]

that story is almost funny.... [img]images/graemlins/colflash.gif[/img]

[JJRS4]

When the reserve comes on you have about 8 litres left - that's not too many miles at those speeds.

[donrs4]

I can confirm that fuel gauge sometimes does strange things, when mine comes on, it can be showing anything between 60 and 30 km left... So my adrenaline goes up until I find a gas station...

good to have u back in Switzerland
D.

[rs4steve]

did a top speed run at bruntingthorpe not so long back filled tank did 7 runs 5miles per run then travelled to the nearest shell garage worked out 52miles on a tankful of fuel did hit 178mph over 1 3/4miles; the joys of running a rs4 [img]images/graemlins/bigwave.gif[/img]

[Sql_PL]

the story is almost unbelievable.... engine turned off at 300 kmh... not pretty good for your turbos...