[zpaul303]

Hello all, new to the forum but a CR-V owner for five years. We just got the 2022 Hybrid EX-L last week and I notice that there is no red/orange bar in the fuel gauge to indicate the level of gas. Is this correct? I put about $4 of gas (about a gallon) in the other day and the gas pump shut off automatically so I presume that I have a full tank, but without the indicator it's hard to know. Is this a defect, or will it appear once the level of gas drops?

Thanks for helping a noobie!

 

[SpareTimeGizmos]

The fuel gauge is the "vertical" bar graph on the right (the one on the left is the battery charge) and it's white. The number of white segments will disappear as you empty the tank. There's no orange or red that I know of.

I say "vertical" but it's actually got a kink in it about 2/3rds of the way up. I think that's just a style thing - I don't think that level has any significance.

 

[zpaul303]

The fuel gauge is the "vertical" bar graph on the right (the one on the left is the battery charge) and it's white. The number of white segments will disappear as you empty the tank. There's no orange or red that I know of.

I say "vertical" but it's actually got a kink in it about 2/3rds of the way up. I think that's just a style thing - I don't think that level has any significance.

OK, that makes sense. Our last 2019 CR-V had the redish bar that moved up and down so I was stuck on that image, and we haven't used enough gas to allow for the white column/bar graph to move. Thank you!

 

[BAJ-1]

Also, when there is about 2? gallons of fuel left the indicator light will go on.
I've never run out of gas, but my 'distance to empty' has gone to zero once (maybe twice).
I figure there about a gallon left when the indicator goes off, and about 25 miles to go...
* and I never put more than 11 gallons in, so I think there was more in the tank!

 

[SpareTimeGizmos]

I was stuck on that image, and we haven't used enough gas to allow for the white column/bar graph to move. Thank you!

FWIW, there's also a "miles to empty" reading on your information display if you cycle thru them, which might be more useful. It's a 14 gallon tank, so you'll need to use 2 or 3 at least before you really notice a change on the fuel gauge.

I wish there was an explicit "gallons remaining" reading (since the computer obviously knows) but I don't think there is.

 

[patruns]

Is the hybrid different? My gauge shows a red bar at the top of the level and white below...........

 

[EXcommunicated]

Is the hybrid different? My gauge shows a red bar at the top of the level and white below...........

No red bar, just white segments showing the level of gas remaining.

 

[beww]

No red bar, just white segments showing the level of gas remaining.

The Hybrid is a pure digital readout, the Ts have some sort of mechanical "wheel" as well as colors.

 

[mikefocke]

 

[SpareTimeGizmos]

The Hybrid is a pure digital readout, the Ts have some sort of mechanical "wheel" as well as colors.

The 1.5T has a mechanical (or electro-mechanical) fuel gauge? I didn't know that.

And yeah, the Hybrid dash is all a big LCD, or probably a couple of separate LCDs. Some of them have a dedicated icons, and the center part is just lowres bit mapped graphics.

 

[williamsji]

The 1.5T has a mechanical (or electro-mechanical) fuel gauge? I didn't know that.

Honda was clever here and essentially used the tried and true "lipstick on a pig" trick with the fuel gauge AND the temperature gauge. They are made to look digital via the trickery, but the actual gauge is an old mechanical swing arm gauge with lipstick for cosmetic appeal.

The fact that neither gauge is actually very linear in function was what drove me to check "behind the scenes" on these gauges early on for my 2017. Digital gauges, while they can be distorted by "garbage in = garbage out" generally speaking will track and report out gauge indicators in a more linear manner.