Well...I had my route planned to arrive at the gas station with 5 miles of gas range to spare but an unexpected accident occurred ahead. I was stuck in the slowdown for 20 min and reached a range of zero. I made it to the station thankfully and the car took nearly 20 gallons. I believe the capacity is 21.7. Just an FYI the safety margin is pretty good on this car!

 

The X351 Owner's Handbook confirms there is 1.1 gall remaining when the gauge indicates empty:





I was in a similar situation many years ago with an XK8 travelling across Yorkshire in England in the middle of the night. The expected service station was closed and I travelled a further 17 miles after the message centre showed zero miles remaining before reaching the next available fuel!

Reassuring to know there's a good margin but I changed my fuel filter after that incident because the pump would have been pulling the contamination that usually stays in the bottom of the tank.

Graham

 

I love that.
Those daring Jet Fighter and Bomber pilots have fuel reserves on their dangerous missions, but not the average consumer car---that would be too splendid.

"Jaguar" is NOT the average consumer car. And, our cars have "Fuel Reserves".
My ego has just been pumped all the way off the meter! Thank you for this thread!

 

As GGG states the reserve feature is there to protect the pump from all the crud at the bottom of the tank, it also provides a cooling medium for the pump.

Just because you can get 21.1 gallons in, it doesn't mean you can get 21.1 gallons out!

wombat

 

I'm pretty sure when they're Bingo, that's it. They either turn around & Return To Base, or plan on ditching it as close as possible to a safe place to punch out, unless they get a lucky tail wind.

 

Mark,

In the military we used various code words to describe our fuels states:

BINGO 1, 2 or 3, were used so other aircraft in the formation could determine if they were above, or below, nominal fuel usage.

TANKS was used to tell the formation leader when your external tanks were empty.

JOKER had a special meaning.

TIGER FAST/SLOW also had special meanings

CHICKEN meant "I'm going home now!!!!"

All aircraft, be it military or civil, carry fuel reserves required for diversion to another airfield in the event that the weather (or other circumstances) precluded landing at our prefered destination.

In addition to all that we would have a minimum landing fuel. That was the minimum fuel required to taxi back and not cook the fuel pumps.

wombat

 

You forgot FUBAR and SNAFU.

 

True, Stuart. But thet aren't fuel calls.

wombat

 

That's so cool. Here in some boroughs of NYC Metro area, the illegal street racers who believe those goofy Vin Deisel Fast-Furious franchise movies are real, use exactly the same terms:

Bingo 1, 2, or 3 means with the police cars chasing me, I drove the car down the wrong corner, and now I'm running out of street.

Tanks meant I %*&K-ed the transmission up, smoke's pouring all out the front of the car, and all three of us in the car are unlocking the doors and getting ready to roll out the car at 7 mph, hike our slack trousers up and run.

When one of them gets caught by the cops (the cops wear tighter pants than these punks, and they don't have to be slowing down to pull em up every time they jump a fence behind the punk), as the cops lift the punk off the grass, "Joker" is one of the trash names they use on the cop as a false show of bravado.

Chicken Meat is what they call the punk car-thief if he cries like a baby during that first night of being terrorized by the bigger men in the holding cell, who are, ummm, planning to use him as their temporary boyfriend.