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Low fuel levels on ANY vehicle with a submerged electric fuel pump is baaaad.
The E53 may not suffer the transfer issues the others have but the keeping the pump cool rule still applies.
On my vehicles that never run low on fuel (translation : I don't let my wife drive them) the pumps have never failed. My 323i for instance has the original fuel pump in it with over 400,000 miles.
I treat 1/4 tank as empty. Of course your always going to have those once in a blue moon lower deals trying to find a station. But as a general rule I never let the vehicle get below 1/4 tank.
My wife on the other hand thinks the gas gauge is a devining rod that lets you know there is gas around there somewhere and under 1/8th means you should get around to getting gas sometime, maybe, kinda, soon.
She goes thru fuel pumps.
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