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Hi everyone,
All of a sudden my Au S1 4ltr Auto has started displaying DTE 74 on the dash when you turn it on along with beeping. It goes away after a sec. Has anyone had this problem and know what it is? |
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just below 1/4 of a tank but that has never come up before and it has been doing it for 2days.
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DTE IS DISTANCE TO EMPTY its just telling u to fil it up mine dose it all the time lol gose off at 80 then 60 then 40 then 20 then 10 just press the little black butten thing on your cluster and it sould go back to how manny k's u have done on that tank
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That's normal. Sometimes it can get stuck on a certain number and then "jump" up or down (usually down). Check it out in the next few days, see it is goes to 66 or something.
The beeping (three short beeps) is an audible warning tone to remind you to fill up.
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Put some fuel in it. Magic fix.
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Great little reminder I reckon. Good old AUs!
GK
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Thanks yeah i filled up after it got to dte 66. I feel like a knob now but yeah i think its a good feature too.
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yeh if only the speed alert was louder that would be a good feture.
every time DTE goes off in mine i tell it to shut up but she always wins and i fill up, money pit. lol
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Do many of you guys let your fuel get down to the point where the DTE says 20 or 10? I'm just curious as to how accurate they are as i always get paranoid when i see the fuel needle hit the red mark and think i'll be driving along and run outta fuel lol.
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I've run out of petrol with DTE at 44
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had mine down to "0" but I was pulling into a servo at the time.
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Mine's been down to 11 kms remaining.
It's a number that depends on your driving habits and averages out over time, so it's possible to drive gently and get low on fuel, then drive enthusiastically and run out before getting to zero. Apparently there's an effect on the AU that occurs when you're *really* low and take a hard right corner, the little remaining fuel will move around in the tank to the point it misses the exit port thing and will cause the engine to stutter for a moment.
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gg fuel cut
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Also had my car read DTE 0 before, but as Dauphin said, it's calculated on how you've been driving in the last few hundred kays. |
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while on the subject of fuel, i know my SR came with a 68 tank, did the fairmonts have a larger tank standard? or option only? is there a plate somewhere saying its got a bigger tank?
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hey guys dont try to run your cars on E to see how many k's you can get on DTE, as you all should know on these newer cars the fuel pumps are lubed by the fuel and by running them on empty all the time causes the pump to burn out.
As for me i hate seeing the needle below half way.. Ahh also you cant use the exuse that the tank needs a clean so i run it empty sometimes. These days the tanks again you all should know are plastic not old school metal so there isn't anything that will corrode in there.
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Thats real interesting. In my car, under 1/2 a tank and a corner my car just dies, and the takes off again. Same thing when I lainch hard under 1/2 tank, its like I stall it and then starts again.
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68 L for the Fairmont as well.
If you go into diagnostics mode, it can show you the real figure of how much fuel is in your car. In the blue car, it can get up to 72L into it.
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When they work ... never trust them. Mine said I had 200km left ... funny thing was the tanks were empty.
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I've driven about 20kms after DTE hit 0... no dramas
but noticed a change in performance towards the end, I must have been getting close - wasn't a good thing as I've heard there can be a lot of crap at the very bottom of the fuel tank |
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Except the utes, they got 70+lt tanks, IIRC
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the most my XR ute has taken is 66.9L, and dte was 16km.
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I actually was laughing with the Mrs about it last night, after I posted! LOL! GK
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