Does this happen to anyone else?

[Funmart6]

A few years ago I was commuting to work, mostly highway and rural country driving, and putting 1000 miles a week on my car. I was averaging 28mpg and using only 93 octane gasoline.

 

[1995mtxsho]

240-250 to a tank... TCC is going out...

 

[SHOZ123]

My experience is the SHOs fuel gauge is like any other Ford I have owned for the last 20 years.

100 miles on the first quarter, 75 on the second then 50 and 50.

The light should come on at 1.5 gallons. The light trigger point is pretty much a standard of the industry I think.

Use to fill up at 300 miles and it would be about at the 1/8th tank mark.

 

[Rubix]

The light is triggered by the position of the needle I believe. As I said my needle sits lower than it should (by almost a quarter tank). The light comes on when the needle reaches it's particular spot despite the fact that there is almost a quarter tank of gas.

Just thought I'd add that to the mix.

 

[stephen newberg]

Though not mathematically correct, in a lot of ways the Gen III SHO fuel gauge acts like a logarithmic gauge, a type that used to be common on European cars. Such a system makes a lot of sense, as when the tank is full, a very accurate reading is pretty useless, but getting a more refined reading as the fuel level is low can be very handy. I doubt that Ford was aiming for this effect, but that seems to be the way it came out and I like it, personally.

pax, smn