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A way to see how many miles per gallon (MPG) your Nissan car
burns is to fill up your gas tank and record the mileage from
your odometer. Drive your car in the way that you usually do
until you have gone through at least a half a tank. Fill up your
gas tank again and if you have, driven 100 miles (or whatever)
then divide that by the exact number of gallons your car took to
fill it up the second time. Your miles per gallon will vary each
time you do this because of the type of driving you did, like:
stop and go city driving or freeway driving, etc.
Keep Nissan gas tank full so condensation will not form or water
will settle in bottom of gas tank and rust and weaken. Your fuel
gauge tends to read the fuel level in your gas tank, regardless
of the shape of your tank
The fuel monitor inside your gas tank does not go all the way to
empty. Its range is full to about 1/8th. So, full is full, and
empty is really 1/8th. It is designed that way so you won't run
out of fuel. Fill back up when you get down to a 1/4 tank
because the bottom of your tank has trash and other elements
that can hurt your engine and clog your fuel filter.
Keeping fuel in your Nissan gas tank will help keep the electric
fuel pump cool as heat will harm electronic components. The
bottom of the pump has a sock or a filter on it to prevent the
pump from sucking up rust or other particles. The fuel is
further filtered in most vehicles with an inline filter. A gas
tank that has a build up of "garbage" is a lack of power after
running for a period at higher mileage. The sock becomes clogged
and starves the engine of fuel. Usually when a tank has debris
of rust and such, the car is usually in rough shape.
The lower the fuel level is the more room water has to evaporate
out of the gasoline. This causes rust in the fuel tank and when
you do run out of fuel, you are running on all the nasty stuff
that's collected at the bottom of the fuel tank. Your car may
originally hold 14 gallons for example. Then later it only holds
11 because of all the sediment and rust that has formed over
time. Do not let your engine running on that entire gunk.
Prevent this by keeping your Nissan gas tank as full as possible.
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