Hi, mine's a diesel, so a little different. It's also hard to tell with these cars when they are completely full...at the pump it always seems possible to puta bit more fuel in until it's pouring out of the top! I've never pushed mine until completely empty, but I would guess you've got about a gallon left once the yellow light comes on. The furthest I've drivenis about 45 miles with the light on (which comes on at the same point as yours), but that was at 55 mph on the motorway (and it's a diesel). I wouldn't do that too often as you don't want to pull up any crud into the fuelpipes from the bottom of the tank.

Not sure on the numbers for the petrol Rio, but I doubt you'll get 44 mpg in urban use. The 1.5 diesel gives 46 round town by Kia figures, not real life numbers. My guess for the petrol would be about 30 to 35 around town, going up to a bit more than 40 mpg on the motorway.
Edited by: M4trundler

 

According to the manual, the fuel light comes on at between 4.5 to 5.5 litres.

If you think of the standard 1.5 litre coke bottles then there is still quite a bit in there.
The most that I have driven with the light on is about 30 miles, but I wouldn't recommend it

Regarding your car, you've probably got another 30 miles before the engine quits but I wouldn't recommend driving it like that as there could be all sorts of crud sucked up into the fuel lines.

As for filling the car up, yes you certainly can fill up even more after the pump has first cut out.
I suspect it is related to the design of the fuel neck and it's piping.
I have been able to squeeze another 6 odd pounds worth of fuel into the tank after fuel cut out but that is on a diesel so fuel prices will be different on a petrol.




Edited by: diddy1234

 

Don't forget there's probably a "dead volume" in the tank of one or two litres you won't be able to use...

 

thanks guys useful responses.

if i could just ask two more question will the light that comes on flicker or will any sort of alarm/warning come on to let me know its nearly empty and
once the needle gets to the E will the needle go flat to the bottom left hand side to indicate that is empty, not that im planning on letting it reach that far or stay at the right hand side of the E

hope my questions make sense.

thanks again.

 

I've never let mine get that low, I usually fill up as soon as the light comes on.

One thing I've noticed, my local Sainsburys had the petrol station refurbed and since then the pump cuts out sooner than at other places, I usually give it one more squeeze and when it clicks out for a second time I stop.

 

thanks guys useful responses.

if i could just ask two more question will the light that comes on flicker or will any sort of alarm/warning come on to let me know its nearly empty and
once the needle gets to the E will the needle go flat to the bottom left hand side to indicate that is empty, not that im planning on letting it reach that far or stay at the right hand side of the E

hope my questions make sense.

thanks again.

I don't know if it flickers...probably not. I have noticed that the needle drops very quickly once it hits the empty zone and it can go below the empty mark, but probably not a good experiment to find out what it does after that!

 

Thanks for your post i appreciate it