Re: Ran out of gas, drove 3 miles to gas station &other stories you can't do w/o a hybrid
Okay, I think I ran out of gas over the weekend. I was asleep in the passenger seat while my copilot was driving us back from Canada to Portland, 9 hours. I woke up just in time to see a low fuel warning pop up on the main display. My driver said we were just on one bar adn he thought we just went from two to one. I said no problem because the next gas would be 20 miles and we would be fine.
We weren't. Cruising at 65 down the Interstate the car upper dash lit up with warning lights galore and the gas pedal stopped working. The specific lights were the large exclamation point in a triangle followed by the (!) light and the VSC light and the image of the engine. We coasted about half a mile down an exit ramp and turned off the car entirely while I frantically read about all of the lights.
All of them translated to some version of "you are doomed." I nearly had a breakdown because not a single one of the warnign lights said, out of fuel. It just happened to be that the additional description of the little engine light said it will illuminate when you are out of fuel. Taking a gamble, we restarted the system tried to drive on just electric and drove slowly one more mile to a gas station. I pumped the bladder full, restarted the car, and all of the lights were gone.
SHEESH! Did you get similar lights when you ran out?
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