A fair point Arwyn.

In my experience the petrol gauges on AMG's are a miserable negative bunch who like to keep at least another 5L for themselves. I had the same model/engine a few years back and when it said "on reserve" I often did 80 miles+ (carrying a can the first time to be a good boy) without a glitch.

However this specific car is new (to me, too tight to buy a new new one at those prices) and I have not checked it yet. As mentioned I definitely did not want to do it on the Motorway and so I jumped off at the Warwick Bandit Emporium. I figure I had another 50-60 miles in it and 30 miles to go on the M40 so could have made it to the Sainsburys on the existing petrol but was not willing to risk it. I am aware that there are three services between the 2 junctions I was using but it was about 5 miles to Warwick and then 25 miles to the next two. So instead of playing chicken I got a good plucking.

Last edited by Alistair; 26/07/24 07:02 PM.
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