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Old 12-22-2010, 02:19 AM
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Originally Posted by caisson12 View Post
Once i t reaches 50 +/- miles it becomes very unreliable. I once had a situation where I had a reading of about 30 miles. As i was looking for the nearest station the miles started dropping like a rock. In the course of two +/- miles the reading dropped from 30 to 15...12...8. This was in a E39 5Series. Scared the livi'n $hit out of me...............
Two weeks ago my light came on and it showed 30 miles to empty, then dropped to 8 miles almost immediately and that was in my '01 E39 540i. I broke into a sweat! I blame it on the damn M sport steering wheel. It's not designed to see the whole cluster gauge.

I fill it at half now.

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