When i feel mine upit only holds 14 does it suppose to hold 18 cause it says its suppose to

 

You would have to completely drain your tank to fit 18 in.

 

I had about 1/8 of a tank left showing on the gauge when I filled up couple weeks ago:

 

See i fill my at empty and it holds 14 gallons...but there suppose to hold 18 from empty u know just wondering if my floats messed up or not u know

 

20 Gallons, special SE-L tank.

 

Mines the se 99

 

HOW DO YOU KNOW it's from empty? Is the little orange gas light on? I too have a 99 SE and the most i was EVER able to get into it was 16.2 gallons. Which is after I drove for about 5 miles with teh gas light on.

When you run a car on empty, it's still not fully empty...there's always a little bit at the bottom of the tank.

 

18.5 ...

I've run out of gas and never put that much (18.5).

 

when light comes on there is suppose to be 2 gallons left i read this some were on the org

 

Here, go read through these...this dilemma has been covered thoroughly

http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...gas-tanks.html

http://forums.maxima.org/73314-post3.html

http://forums.maxima.org/73497-post10.html

Your tank would need to be totally empty...completely drained...to fit 18.5 gallons

 

Well can really careless how much it holds just tring to figured out my mpg..cause i filled that **** up with 14 sumtin and only got 153 miles out of here...***** is hard as hell on gas idk why no cel or nothing so..idk lol

 

Whether it holds 18.5 gallons or 30 gallons does not matter when figuring your MPG...all you do is divide miles driven by the number of gallons you put in so in your case thats... 153 miles by 14 gallons which gives you 10MPG...you got some serious issues if you are really getting 10MPG!!!! In order to calculate, you need to fill your car, reset your trip meter, then drive. Then at your next fill up, FILL the car and divide your miles driven by the gallons put in. If that still comes to 10mpg, you got bigger problems then how many gallons it holds.

 

I call on those figures.
At 10 mpg you'd be burning almost 3x the normal amount of fuel. That would cause some serious emissions issues (visable) and most likely plug up a catalyst really quick.

 

well i dont my figures and stuff but yea sad to say its what its getting no flooding plugs out no smoke now fumes are strong as hell but i checked for leaks nothing just messed up went from avrg 20 mpg and now like 11 or 12 mpg lol belive me its costed me alot past few days man it sucks imma check a few stuff then adjust a few things and go from there

 

well i done my figures and stuff but yea sad to say its what its getting no flooding plugs out no smoke now fumes are strong as hell but i checked for leaks nothing just messed up went from avrg 20 mpg and now like 11 or 12 mpg lol belive me its costed me alot past few days man it sucks imma check a few stuff then adjust a few things and go from there

 

 

The same amount that they all hold.......

 

oh noez

 

I know that the 3rd gens hold 18.5 gallons, which was good for me when gas was low. I used to do 400 plus miles on a long trip mosly interstate and some city driving. I dont think that the 4th gens hold that much. Maybe 14 to 16 gallons. I get decent mileage in my 95 even tho i have yet to take her on an out of town trip to see what she can do. Gotta replace 02 sensor on the front.

 

IBTL

 

This thread is still open?

 

"When i feel mine up" i've heard of lovin your car but....

 

Since when is the se-l a special 20 gal tank?? I got an se-l and most ive ever gotten was 17.2 gallons....not that i care..just wondering if i missed the memo...lol

 

The only way the gas tank would not hold 18+ gallons would be if it was dented or something like that.

Accuracy of the gas gauge system is far from perfect but reasonably close. The gas tank does not have perfectly flat and square surfaces which makes accuracy a problem.

I have driven my 97 to where the needle in the gauge is below the letter E and needed 17.5 gallons.

If you want to find out how much gas it will take to fill the tank, get a gas can and drive the car until it runs out of gas keeping your eye on the gauge so you will know how it reads. Then you will find out.

 

Since 95 when they first came out w/ the SE-L.

It was an advertised feature, surprised you never noticed.....

 

The SE-Ls have perforated gas tanks too

DW

 

^^ ^^

 

Only if you got the Fuel Saver package, which is what I have... Which is why I get 40mpg on the highway....

 

But yea im still getting shytty mpg idk why tho but it dont do any better ***** be gone on a trade in lol cant afford this stuff

 

 

Yea...that extra gear helps alot...specially while bein parked for quite some time now

 

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