So I'm driving home on empty (I always push it to the last drop because I am so lazy) and then my car starts hesitating on the freeway. I pull over immediately and put gas in. Car still acts funny, idles really rough, has some hesitation and worst of all is that the Check Engine light comes on.

I take it home and run my tester and find a PO170, PO173 and PO301. Two are fuel trim problems and the other has to do with a misfire in the engine.

So how does it all end, you say? I drive around the block and it runs fine. So I restart the car two more times (making it a total of 5) and the light turns off and everything is fine.

So the moral of my story (to myself at least) is that I should never let my gas run down so low.

 

I second that....................

I was driving from Santa Monica to San Diego, my gas empty light came on when I approached Ocean Side. So I reset my mileage meter to see how far it will take me with the reservoir. I figured I could re-fuel somewhere in Clairmont Mesa Blvd another 25 miles away. I was approx. 3 miles away from Clairmont Mesa Blvd and then my engine started to hesitated. POW!!! all systems shut down!! I was out of gas and only 2 1/2 miles away from the gas station.

To make a long story short..............I did had the same problem with the engine light came on. Drove the car for a day or two the car was back to normal.

 

oh yeah....................for those of you who don't know.....once the empty gas light comes the 430 can only cover 18 miles!!!

 

do you mean the light that comes on when the gas reaches the last 1/8th of the tank?

 

It's not good to let fuel injected cars run out of gas.

The check engine light resets itself after a certain number of fault free episodes.

 

I got painfully awared of this when driving through Denmark, on my way to Sweden form Germany, in the middle of the night.

I went right past a gas station when the fuel light came on, then there was no gas station for some 60km.

Out of fuel, in the middle of the night, on a highway in Denmark. I was lucky to have my friend right behind me in his E-class...


/Martin