My L200 has less than a gallon when the chime goes off. And yes, it will
run on until there is no gas. OH, and BTW, low fuel has NOTHING to do with
fuel pump life. The fuel pumps are a simple gearotor style pump and will
run practically forever even without ANY gas in them. They are cooled by
the gas running THROUGH them, not by the gas AROUND them. I've heard these
lines of thinking before and there's just nothing to them. I've seen
electric in tank pumps last 20,000 miles and I've seen them last 300,000
miles. As a matter of fact we have 2 trucks (out of the 33) where I work
that both have 300,000 + miles and they both have the original fuel pumps.
We never gas the trucks until they are empty. I personally have never
filled ANY car of my own until it was empty and I've NEVER had a fuel pump
failure.

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Steve Barker


>
> There is no way the fuel gage can read that little amount of fuel nor
> can your car stay running on that amount. Are you trying to destroy your
> fuel pump as quickly as possible? The best and safest time to fill you
> gas tank is when it reaches a quarter of a tank, not at an eighth of a
> tank. No such thing as an early indicator from what I've seen. I'm
> guessing yours goes off after a quarter tank has been reached.