[ddgm]

LOL.. yep. Those were the days of 5 cent candy bars too, with a few really special ones sold for the absurdly high price of 10 cents.

Pennies have become largely "ballistic filler" for shotgun ammo reloaders making custom anti-personnel rounds.

Pennies? What are pennies! We Canadians, stopped making them 5 or more years ago.

 

[beww]

Pennies? What are pennies! We Canadians, stopped making them 5 or more years ago.

A while back I was at a bar in Toronto and paid with a wad that included a single one-dollar Canadian bill.
Everyone seemed to be freaking out that I had an actual paper dollar and not a "Loonie".

 

[joggernot]

Of course I'm often more than 50 miles from a gas station. It effects your thinking.

Texas between Ft. Stockton and Ozona is about 100 miles. No gas station on the highway unless you know where to find it. Had to find it when on my m/c one trip. Another fun ride was from Carlsbad, NM to El Paso. About 150 miles with no gas station (now an enterprising person has put one in around the halfway mark).

 

[jdcrv]

The 5th generation CR-V has only a 14 gallon tank, but the previous generations of the CR-V had a 15.3 gallon tank- why the downgrade?

My 2005 Accord has a 17 gallon tank (I still have the Accord, my sister is using it). It seems as though I'm filling up my CR-V weekly as I did with my Accord, even though I'm driving it about half as much as I did my Accord before the pandemic. I'm only getting around 23-24 MPG between fillups now, about 2-3 MPG less than my 4 cylinder Accord got in the winter. The MPG shown on the instrument panel is around 1 MPG less than what I measure when I fill up by dividing the gallons it took to fill by the total mileage driven since the last fillup.

So far, I've been OK getting down to 3 gallons left in the tank before filling up, maybe getting down to 2 gallons once.

EDIT: My CR-V has AWD, which has a 1-2 MPG fuel economy penalty. I guess it's worth it to lessen the chance of getting stuck in the snow.

It's pretty common knowledge that manf. shave weight wherever they can in order to improve fuel economy. This is what Honda did w/ this gen. Yeah it sucks to have to fill up more often but what can you do? Also, you must have a very heavy foot w/ your CRV. My '17 will get 30 mpg all day long in combined driving, and I don't baby it or use Econ mode. On highway I've gotten as much as 33 mpg. If you're not a leadfoot then I'd be checking somthing under the hood, the drivetrain or your tires. Also, your stated mpg, is this what the car computer is telling you or is this your own computation? BTW, mine is AWD as well.

 

[beww]

Granted it's a hybrid, but I am perfectly satisfied with getting more than 500 miles from my "tiny" 14 gallon tank.
I certainly chuckle when I watch my brother fill up has 36-gallon F-150 tank, and pay for it.

 

[wingman1977]

Hopefully it's not a sign of the computer beginning to have issues. You might want to reboot the computer.

 

[beww]

Hopefully it's not a sign of the computer beginning to have issues. You might want to reboot the computer. Here's one way to do it:

Do NOT try this first, hold down the volume knob until asked if you wish to reboot.
It MIGHT solve your problem, it might not.
Edit:
Scotty may be entertaining, but he is not the best source of information, especially about Hondas.
(Full disclosure, I've known him since the 80s. His degree is in Anthropology of all things)

 

[masiguy]

In this day and age of global pandemic, I see cars pulled over most every week with a driver walking away holding a red gas can.

Every week? Wow! !! Where do you live?

 

[zztopp52]

In all fairness, I don't think many people "plan" to run out of gas. Sometimes it just happens.

I’ve been driving cars and trucks for over 50 years and have never run out of gas.

 

[rlp2451]

Disconnect the battery for an hour. It may not clear those faults - but once you reconnect, drive for 15-20 mins and those errors should clear.

If they dont, you need a new battery.

And remember not to drive on empty 🤦‍♂️ All you end up doing is dredge up gunk from the fuel tank into your engine. Very silly thing to do. If the car tells you its low on fuel then refuel.

"All you end up doing is dredge up gunk from the fuel tank into your engine." I've always wondered about this and am thinking it's mostly urban legend. The gas in the tank is always sloshing around when you turn corners, use the brakes, fill it, etc. There are filters at gas stations to eliminate impurities. Can anyone with experience actually removing a tank and cutting it open confirm that there really is "gunk in the fuel tank?" I would think that after a a hundred thousand miles or so you'd hear stories of people having to get their tank flushed like a hot water heater - but I've never heard of any.

 

[dbier]

Texas between Ft. Stockton and Ozona is about 100 miles. No gas station on the highway unless you know where to find it. Had to find it when on my m/c one trip. Another fun ride was from Carlsbad, NM to El Paso. About 150 miles with no gas station (now an enterprising person has put one in around the halfway mark).

I drove the Dalton Highway - a gravel road paralleling the Alaskan pipeline from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay (Arctic Ocean). About 400 miles of absolutely beautiful desolation - and (back then 25 years ago) there was only 1 gas/truck stop along the way.

 

[Johnlon]

The 5th generation CR-V has only a 14 gallon tank, but the previous generations of the CR-V had a 15.3 gallon tank- why the downgrade?

My 2005 Accord has a 17 gallon tank (I still have the Accord, my sister is using it). It seems as though I'm filling up my CR-V weekly as I did with my Accord, even though I'm driving it about half as much as I did my Accord before the pandemic. I'm only getting around 23-24 MPG between fillups now, about 2-3 MPG less than my 4 cylinder Accord got in the winter. The MPG shown on the instrument panel is around 1 MPG less than what I measure when I fill up by dividing the gallons it took to fill by the total mileage driven since the last fillup.

So far, I've been OK getting down to 3 gallons left in the tank before filling up, maybe getting down to 2 gallons once.

EDIT: My CR-V has AWD, which has a 1-2 MPG fuel economy penalty. I guess it's worth it to lessen the chance of getting stuck in the snow.

It used to be a good practice to keep your tank close to full in the winter, to keep moisture from getting into the tank. I still do that but with a sealed fuel system, maybe that's not important anymore (other than to avoid running out of fuel). Any opinions?

 

[Grassgrower]

It hasn't happened to me since High School, when it was caused by economic factors.
After all, who could afford gas when it was almost 40 cents a gallon?

It's just that people should be aware that running out of gas is no longer the trivial thing it used to be, it can cause real damage and is to be avoided if possible.

40 cents my best chuckle of the day. Thank you.

 

[ACHofNY]

I once drove my `17 CRV 1.5L one a highway down to the warning lights for fuel, all of a sudden the car started bucklin. It really felt I was running out of gas. I depressed the brakes an took out of cruse control, the car ran normal until I got gas where I was planning to get fuel. I swear it was the cruise control providing a warning, (the fuel light is already on,) sio I don’t mindlessly keep driving and ignore it.

is this true? Or there was something else going on. It drove quite some distance before I got gas.

 

[quicksilver]

I'll take that challenge!

Me too!

Disconnect the battery for an hour. It may not clear those faults - but once you reconnect, drive for 15-20 mins and those errors should clear.

If they dont, you need a new battery.

And remember not to drive on empty 🤦‍♂️ All you end up doing is dredge up gunk from the fuel tank into your engine. Very silly thing to do. If the car tells you its low on fuel then refuel.

I'm pretty sure that the "dredge up gunk" issue hasn't been a thing since about 1968...

 

[Grpass]

Lowest price I ever saw was back in the late 60's in the greater LA area in the great era of "Gas Wars". That was actually the term the local stations used on their fuel signs, right next to the price signs of... 19, 20, 21 cents a gallon, all trying to undercut each other a penny at a time.

With local oil being pumped out of local wells and directly to local refineries in those days, the floor price appears to have been around 20 cents a gallon, probably the cost to produce, deliver, and make a penny profit.

And lots of times they gave away free stuff to get you to come in. Glasses, plates, S&W stamps, maps and the list goes on.

 

[bassn386]

Lowest price I ever saw was back in the late 60's in the greater LA area in the great era of "Gas Wars". That was actually the term the local stations used on their fuel signs, right next to the price signs of... 19, 20, 21 cents a gallon, all trying to undercut each other a penny at a time.

With local oil being pumped out of local wells and directly to local refineries in those days, the floor price appears to have been around 20 cents a gallon, probably the cost to produce, deliver, and make a penny profit.

I am Ooold and i remember a gas war in Philadelphia in the late 40s when gas was 11 cents a gallon.

 

[davidsh331]

It hasn't happened to me since High School, when it was caused by economic factors.
After all, who could afford gas when it was almost 40 cents a gallon?

It's just that people should be aware that running out of gas is no longer the trivial thing it used to be, it can cause real damage and is to be avoided if possible.

I am about to turn 70, started driving at 16, and I have NEVER run out of gas.

 

[Mike728]

And lots of times they gave away free stuff to get you to come in. Glasses, plates, S&W stamps, maps and the list goes on.

Do you mean S&H green stamps?

 

[medic6955]

Disconnect the battery for an hour. It may not clear those faults - but once you reconnect, drive for 15-20 mins and those errors should clear.

If they dont, you need a new battery.

And remember not to drive on empty 🤦‍♂️ All you end up doing is dredge up gunk from the fuel tank into your engine. Very silly thing to do. If the car tells you its low on fuel then refuel.

Car manufactures recommend you don't go below a 1/4 tank of gas When you consistently go below 1/4 tank, you risk overheating your fuel pump ( the fuel pump uses the gas in your tank for cooling and lubricating the pump). Also if you run out of gas, turn off the ignition so you don't run your fuel pump dry, That is the easiest way to ruin a fuel pump.