So last night I was almost out of gas.... The "!" Warning light came on and car wouldn't go over 40km/h and felt like it was out of gas... I pulled over and started it back up 10 min later... Car was fine.

 

fuel starvation?

 

Theres too many assumptions that can be made. Get the code pulled. Related to low fuel?possibly. telling you to stop because it's low on fuel? no.

 

Why would you run all out with low fuel!?

 

Not sure what happen to you but I can tell u it has nothing to do with you having lil to no fuel at all.
When our car are about to run out of gas it will keep driving normal till it shuts off 1.2.3 just like that and nothing will happen to your car all you need to do is add gas and crank it back up.
I have great experience with running out of gas at the track going WOT.

What u can do is have your dealer check if there was something stored in the ecu maybe that can help you pin point the problem .
GL

 

The car is only warning u to slow down cuz 260km/h on summer tires = Fail! Drive safe, winter is far from being over in Eastern Ontario.

Seriously though, I bet with u it is related to ur K&N.

 

Let me see... you hit 260-280 km/h speeds on public roads in Ontario, at night, at temperatures that are still well below the freezing mark, and you're publicly posting that you did it. Rob? Rob Ford? Is that you?


I suppose I should thank you - I now have grounds to appeal my stunt driving conviction. I was happy not to get jail time and keep my licence after being clocked doing "only" 184. All I have to do is show your post to my lawyer and claim it was mistaken identity...

 

Who said I was on public roads?

 

I'm sure law enforcement will be on the way to your house momentarily as you have also posted your postal code on a public thread on the internet it should narrow down tracking you down.

"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." ~ Mark Twain

 

There are pictures of your car with your personalized licence plate clearly visible elsewhere on the forum, so there's no need for the cops to do any postal code searching or get witness statements to find you. And, you were definitely on a public road unless you can show proof that you either own a 3-4 km or longer driveway or had rented an airport runway. Good luck trying to explain your way out of that one.

Seriously - you ought to watch what you write, but more importantly, what you do. For doing speeds in the range you're boasting about, they will put you in jail and take your licence away for a long time, which they would be fully justified in doing as you obviously have very minute amounts of gray matter in your skull and very little regard for human life. If you only kill yourself as a result it's not a big deal - it's just natural selection at work - but unfortunately you could do someone else in.

I sincerely hope that you haven't pissed anyone off enough for them to just send a simple email to the OPP with a link to this thread, which is how they got the idiot with the M5. In the meantime, SLOW THE F___ DOWN.

http://jalopnik.com/5610086/online-b...een-bmw-driver

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2010...s_licence.html

The post that got this guy in trouble:

http://forums.5series.net/e60-m5-dis...40-zone-95495/


P.S. All of which, of course, is to prevent things like this from happening:

http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/e60...ts-m-mode.html

 

hells, such a pity all we can talk about is going 0-60mph ... Makes one wonder why we buy such high performance cars, or why they even make them.

 

They make them because we buy them. We buy them because they make them. It's a vicious circle.

 

Damn straight, it is a vicious circle especially when you cant get enough AMG .. hehe PS: Beautiful looking car mate!!

 

RAT

 

Really, you just said you got clipped doing 184, 3 posts ago, but because he was going faster you have the right to lecture after doing the exact same thing?? 184 is excessive speeding and the same thing you hypocrite.

 

I may be many things, but one thing I certainly am not is a rat. I was merely trying to make a point. Chill.

As for my own stunt driving conviction, there were exceptional circumstances, which, while they may be legally irrelevant as speeding is an absolute liability offence under the HTA, were in fact taken into account by both the police officer and the prosecutor, who then in turn requested the minimum from the judge. Yes, I made a mistake, and I paid for it - but I most certainly don't go "ripping it at 260-280 km/h" like this idiot or for that matter anyone else that has no regard for human life. There is a huge difference between momentarily hitting 184 (which I suspect we have all done at some point in time) and "ripping it at 280", at night and at temperatures below the freezing mark.


P.S. It's idiots like him that we can all thank for the enactment of the automatic stunt driving charge at 50 km/h over the limit.

 

You can rip it up to 280 on the autobahn with people around.

Is that better because it's legal?

What if he was on a highway road in the middle of no where with no one around, I wouldn't care.

If you're going 280 passing people you need a slap, but if there is no one around and no passenger, victimless crime.

 

I can understand you passing someone on a two-lane highway and trying to complete your pass in the safest and shortest amount of time, or merging on the freeway when there's a truck beside you and your lane ends and you need to need to step on it to safely merge ,and you happen to momentarily exceed the limit by more than 50 km/h while doing it. While the law is absolute and leaves no room for interpretation, as I said, the grandma that passed someone and was momentarily clocked at 60 over is not a danger to society, and I would like to think that I also fall in that category despite my transgression. This idiot however clearly doesn't.

Yes, it is hypocritical - in the same way that even among other criminals and murderers, people like Paul Bernardo are going to get killed in prison if they let them out among the general population because their actions violate whatever little shred of reason and humanity is present even among the hard-core criminals and murderers. It's the same with driving. Ripping it at 280 km/h on a public road at night at sub-zero temperatures is asinine no matter which way you look at it.

Even on the autobahn, which BTW now also has speed restrictions in most places, you'd be hard pressed to be able to hit 200-220 km/h on the de-restricted sections because of other traffic. On a closed race track, after 25+ years of driving and 15+ years of HPDE track experience, 280 km/h is still extremely fast and scares the 5h!t out of me every time. At that speed in a road car, you don't even have the illusion that you're still in full control of your vehicle even if your last name is Vettel or Hamilton. Doing it on a public road, at night, when the rubber on your tires has the consistency of a hockey puck and you have very little traction, is simply stupid and extremely irresponsible regardless of whether it's legal or not.

Yes, he did it and got away with it (by which I mean that he lived, not that he didn't get caught). If the experience itself wasn't enough for him to realize that by doing so he placed his life and those of others in extreme danger, he makes a perfect candidate for a Darwin Award. The very fact that he actually decided to write about it unfortunately suggests otherwise. One day he will take someone out, which is exactly why the rest of us in our C63s that normally drive in a responsible manner but may accidentally hit a little more than 50 km/h over the limit under exceptional circumstances on very rare occasions now have to pay a much heftier price than simple speeding, which his what it used to be before a couple of idiots like him killed a taxi driver in Toronto a few years back.

There are tracks and events where we can all explore the performance of our vehicles in relative safety, and I am all for that. Doing it on a public road is not acceptable no matter which way you look at it, and is both dangerous and detrimental for everyone else.

 

The only laws that are absolute are those of science and nature. Gravity, Conservation of Momentum, speed of light in a vacuum, etc.

The rule of man is not absolute. The fact that we can break these "laws" is proof enough of this concept. Man's law is every changing. There is further room for "interpretaion" in the form of police discretion, prosecutorial discretion, jury nullification, etc.

I'm not here to help others/myself better obey the law of man, but rather to witness and help others/myself push the boundaries of natures limits.

 

You are right and I stand corrected. I am not a legal professional - what I meant was that the 51 km/h over is considered stunt driving regardless of whether it was 51 over in a 30 school zone at 3 PM when the kids are out, or 51 over in a 100 zone on an empty, multi-lane highway on a sunny afternoon. At 51 over the limit, the police in Ontario have NO discretion to reduce the charge to, say, 49 over, as the radar gun is tied to the central system which immediately spits out a code that's tied to the seizure of your vehicle and licence suspension. You still lose the car and your licence for a week even if you're later found not guilty of the offence. As for discretion, yes, the prosecution has some in that they can request anything from the minimum to the maximum penalty allowed by law for that particular offence. And, speeding is a an absolute liability offence in Ontario. You are guilty of it even if there's someone in the passenger seat pointing a loaded gun at your head. I think it has something to do with whether it requires intent, but as I said, I am not a legal professional and don't know enough on the subject.