Fuel Guage useless?
 

Picked up my new Tenere yesterday (:laughing7:), got through two tanks of fuel so far - or so the fuel guage would have me believe....

the owners manual says when there is one segment (of six) left on the display to 'refill as soon as possible'. So this morning after 30 miles of ridng with only one segment left i refilled - and only managed to get 15L in my 22L tank. This afternoon following another 170 miles my guage said i was empty again so i refilled (already suspicious by this point) to find that i could only squeeze 13L in the tank - i had not far off half a tank left!

as you might have guessed, my question is - is it just my fuel guage which is crap or are they all like that? a shame if they are all bad as it occupies quite a bit of space on the display and if i end up using my trip meter to guage the fuel then its a right waste of space.

Same here! I already got used to it, but you're right, it's kinda strange how it works. And according to the manual there's even 23lt in the tank, so using your tripmeter you can go about 500km's before refueling! Greetz, Hans.

I noticed that the fuel meter is very conservative, but then, there isn't a reserve option on the fuel tank. As I understand from the manual, once you hit the bottom of the fuel gauge, the trip meter starts counting up. Now 30% reserve is a little on the high side, many bikes run from 10% to about 25%, but is not ridiculous, given that the Tenere is an "adventure" bike.

A rough calculation suggests that the tank (full to empty) is good for about 300miles depending on how you are riding. Realistically, with a range like that, I would be looking for fuel somewhere about 200miles, which, spookily enough, is about the bottom of the fuel gauge. This allows for a certain amount of "shopping around" if the fuel in the area is scarce or particularly expensive.

A lot depends on the rider, but I have always filled up the tank completely, and then ridden to the odometer, rather than the fuel gauge.

Regards

Si

same here, I use the odometer.

Yep (hi new to forum btw), also noticed this and it is kind of annoying. As everyone else I drive on odometer and refill before I hit 400km or the odo flips to the "km left" mode.

Molgan, :hello: and :welcome: to :660:

add yourself to the Tenere poll mate! http://www.xt660.com/showthread.php?t=7082

That sucks balls, I'd be hacked off with that!

Ty, and done. :deathmetal[1]: <-- the amount of smileys in this forum is astonishing. =)

fair enough - they're all crap! on My XTR i always rode to the odometer too so i'll carry on doing that, thanks for the reply folks :smoke:

My XTR 08 was much the same (obviously without a guage) but the f-trip cut in after about 10 liters had been used.