I doubt it. If anything it may be easier if you have a car with FI since the electric pump does not require the engine to be cranking (the pump will prime when the key turns on)
My story about running out of gas. Back in 1998 they made our fuel guages adjustable, so if a customer had a complaint that their needle didn’t read quite at the full mark, the technician could go in and “adjust” the needle electronically to make it read correctly. So we had the students practice this in class. All the instructors found out the hard way that if student went to the full limit of the adjustment in one direction the car would run out of gas with no low fuel warning light, and the guage would not be on on empty. I only ran out twice before I learned to check and adjust the needle back to normal before I left for the day. :smack:
You walk to the nearest gas station, and hope they will sell you, or let you borrow a gas can so you can fill it with gas then walk back to your car. Fill it from the can, and drive to that station.
I ran out of gas once in my old truck. I had to pickup a friend from work, and was running late. I noticed I had to fill up, but thought I could run out, and pick her up then get gas. About half way there I ran out. Truck sputtered a few times then all of a sudden there was no power. Put the clutch in, and the RPMs went to 0. Had to stop on the side of the road, and walk the rest of the way. Then wait for my mom to get back to our side of town with some gas.
My current truck is a diesel, and if I run out of fuel it is possible I will need to reprime the high presure side of the fuel system. My brother who is a former diesel tech. showed me how to do it, and I carry the few tools needed in my truck. I have done it once when we did some upgrades that required draining the high presure side. Slightly off topic I also carry a spare fuel filter because of several cases of bad diesel in my area a few years ago. I never got hit, but better to be prepared. When I change filters I just take the one out of my truck, and install it, and put the new one in the truck as the spare.
-Otanx
There are many places that don’t have cell phone coverage. I hike and ski in the mountains all year, and lots of places I go have no coverage, so a cell phone has limits. Many of the locals don’t bother with cell phones since they so rarely work where they live.
Lots of folks don’t have cell phones even in the cities, because they’ve found no reason to. I have one, but I only got it a few years ago. I wouldn’t want to live without it, but I could easily do so.
The one time I ran out of gas we pushed the truck to the top of the hill we were climbing, then coasted down the hill and up the road a short ways to the gas station we knew was there.
I ran out of gas 9 days ago. I’m usually on the very low end of the tank by the time payday rolls around and that day was no different. I put a gallon and a half in the car on Wednesday morning and hoped it would last until I’d cashed my check on Friday morning. It didn’t.
Friday morning:
Drive to work. Feel the car jerking a little bit from being low on fuel, but ignore it for the time being.
Pick up check and drive across the street to the bank. Car’s heaving more. Logic stands that I’d rather have cash in my hand when I run out of gas, so I stop at the bank and cash the check.
Back in the car, turning onto the main (busy-ish) street. Make it approximately 50 yards and realize I’m slowing down and have no power. Pop into neutral, try to restart. No dice.
Get out of car and push the monstrous beast back into the mall parking lot. Made brief mental note to save for a light-weight car (I have an '84 LeSabre - a bitch to push on my own). Up a little hill, heading down toward parking spaces when someone pulls over to see how he can be of assistance.* He pushes while I jump in and stomp on the brake pedal.
So the man and his wife ask if they can help. I ask if they can give me a lift home, about a mile and a half up the road. They can and do. I call my sister and make plans for her to come home earlier than she’d planned. She’s pissed. Eh, whatever. Push all appointments forward two hours and everything’s fine and dandy in my world again.
Except… I had 5 bucks in my pocket all morning. Ladies and gents, sacrifice whatever “plans” you made for that money if you’re on the verge of having a dead car on your hands. Especially if you’ll have more money before having enough time to fulfill said “plans”. :smack:
*I live in an area that still retains its small-town attitude, which can be both a curse and a blessing. It’s taken for granted that someone will help you if you need assistance. If not immediately, eventually.
Garfield226 and BrattiAtti: Thanks, that’s what I was curious about, what it feels like when you run out of gas. I’ve had the clutch go out when I’ve been driving and I never want that feeling again.
And Stranger, thanks for the tip, but the stretch of freeway I was on didn’t have any Mel Gibson clones. So keep your cell phone handy! 
My aunt and uncle, for one. They came out to visit, and I took their kids, my cousins, for the day. I told my aunt just to call me if plans changed, otherwise we’d meet them for dinner. She couldn’t believe I had a cell phone; I had to show her. I guess that they just run in kind of different circles than I do.
The nearest gas station to my house is about 15 miles. So I’m pretty good about always filling up at a quarter of a tank.
Once, in a CJ7 I forgot. Must have made a couple of extra trips into town, and I just plain forgot.
Luckily, before my next trip into town, I noticed that the fuel was real, real low. I always keep extra gas around for my plow truck, so I threw the extra three or four gallons in the back of the Jeep.
Sure enough, about 2 miles from town I ran out, but I had the extra gas with me so I was fine.
My Wife tends to let her gas tank get to low for my comfort level. I’ve yet to have to ‘I told you so yet’. So in reality, she must be keeping a real close eye on it.
I don’t have one, nor do I plan on getting one.
Here in Minnesota you can get a ticket for running out of gas.
Stop.
OK, so I’m a knee-jerk, bleeding-heart, flaming liberal and all that and I have AAA .
Please explain, why I shouldn’t… I’m so confused.
I think I’ve just experienced my first woosh.
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AAA uses your dues to lobby. They lobby against things like mass transit or environmental causes. When you use AAA, that’s what you’re supporting – more roads, less public transit, no bicycles. Check these articles out. I don’t like what AAA uses my money to lobby for, so I go with BWC.
BWC, by contrast, costs the same as AAA, offers the same services, refunds you $40 a year for gas (which basically pays for the membership), and supports environmental causes. They also are not as big as AAA, which means that they pay tow trucks more. That means that if you’re in a busy area, you’re likely to get a BWC truck faster than a AAA truck, because the driver makes more money on a BWC call than a AAA call. At least, that’s what the BWC driver told us when I called him after my friend had spent three hours waiting for AAA. 
I had no idea. Thanks for the info- I will check it out!
(Bells ringing) Ignorance Fought Today!
Thanks for that. After spending so much of my life relying on mass transit and bicycling, if I ever got a car, I’d be loathe to pay to lobby againt them.
As for what I’d do if I ran out of gas, I suppose that I’d be rather confused, as my bike has never given any indication of requiring gas.
Last year some friends and I went to Queensland for three weeks. Because we all have elderly parents in ill health, we decided to rent a cell phone for the duration of the trip.
Too bad there was NO reception just about anywhere we went! :rolleyes:
Back to the OP - We came close to running out of gas in Montana this winter - finally stopped in a town that had nothing but a bar. The guy at the bar said that a whole bunch of people get stuck right about there, and almost everybody keeps a can of gas in the truck to help out strangers.
Good place for a station, IMO.