Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Classic Morgans (pre-CX) It really is empty

when I had my 4/4 i drained the tank to flush it - useful drain plug - and put in 1.5 gal. I noted the gauge reading albeit on level garage floor - and it was a useful guide even though the level fluctuated on gauge.
I haven't done this yet on my Plus 8 but the gauge swings a hell of a lot! maybe I am cornering at the wrong speed?

Fuel gauges not a strong point on Morgans it seems - my 1994 +8 was as accurate as my 4/4 Sport is proving to be.

On the +8 just used to fill up every 250mls and in the Sport fill at 350mls seems to work.

Ran a Reliant Scimitar GTE and it had the same disease but most of these plastic cars suffer with electrical malfunctions. These in part due to the fact every device has to have an earth run back to the chassis directly and resistive joints abound once electrolytic action creeps in.

Like Morgan a fairly underated good car with foibles possibly all low volume vehicles have foibles.

My Wolfsburg and Blue Oval don't seem to have any Thank Goodness as one is shopping trolley and the other my toolbox.

Jeremy, How do you get 48 mpg?.... oh.. you use imperial gallons, which really works out to only 40 mpg.... that is pretty good still.
My 67 +4 gets anywhere between 20 and 25 mpg... closer to 25 I believe. The gauge works great for being 45 years old. When it is full, it shows it full. When it is a 1/4 tank left, it fills about 6 gallons. My four seater has 8 gallon capacity, but is that really 9.6 gallons? If it is, I can go further than I thought.... Should I try the Seinfeld Kramer test?

Same here, the fuel gauge of my 4/4 Sport won't budge the first 100 miles or so at all. Also the needle does not seem to move anymore when ist falls a little below the 1/4 index...

As I keep a drivers log, I know that my average consumption is around 5.2 l/100 km (i.e. 45 miles/US gallon or 54 miles/Imp gallon).
So I usually fill up every 800 km (i.e. 500 miles). That worked fine so far.

best regards from Switzerland :snowgrin:

I usually get about 30 mph from my CVH, and always reset trip-meter instead of look at the gauge about 300 miles per tank.

Wilhelm : 54 mpg in a hilly country such as yours is VERY impressive. I got 46mpg on a 420 mile mostly motorway run (had to get to Suffolk to see the folks for lunch), last Tuesday. Gauge very encouraging to start - 180 miles 7/8 full then fell to just over half. 20 miles from home still 1/4...BUT next morning, off to local garage to fill up (6 miles) - gauge just above E then down the hill into Wells - hard on E stop . Heart in mouth to petrol station, but could only get 9 1/2 gallons in. Shall stick to my new "fill at 1/4 tank" mantra from now on.

I love owning a Morgan

Jeremy