New Gladiator Down

[IanNubbit]

It's best to always have half a tank when you get home. Emergencies or whatever. Wife is a repeat "reserve-addict". Not with the Glad. Needs to have 50% fuel when I park it.

I would have to fill up almost every day to accomplish that. With a 65 mile one way commute. It’s just not feasible. Fill up every time it’s under a 1/4

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[93civej1]

heck, i live life on the edge. Fuel low indicator all the time.

 

[NachoRuby]

Hopefully it is just gas, but we will see. I fill up at 3/8 a tank, with the exception being long trips, where I'll stretch it to when the screen says 70 miles range or so. But if the light comes on, I'm filling up for sure. No reason to wait any longer. Gas will just be more expensive the longer I wait

I would have to fill up almost every day to accomplish that. With a 65 mile one way commute. It’s just not feasible. Fill up every time it’s under a 1/4

Instead, you get to fill up every other day haha (unless diesel). 20 gallons of usable tank at 17 mpg =every 2.6 days. But 6% is 1.3 gallons of fuel left. That's way past low fuel light time. If I fill up when the fuel light comes on, I can get about 18 gallons in, which means there are 4 gallons left when the light comes on.

 

[npgeorgeuw]

I can say that the fuel float or sensor is really sensitive and takes FOREVER on my willys to read accurately if I am parked on a hill. It doesn't come to a steady-state until about 20 minutes of driving. It's good to note I park on a steep (but not extreme) driveway and go downhill 8 miles to work. Most of the days it starts in the yellow with zero range and is back to about 1/8-1/4 gallon by the time I get down to work which is about 1000 ft of elevation loss over about 7 miles. It's the worse vehicle I have ever had for taking time to correct an elevation change in gas level.

Having said that, if it said you had above yellow, I would not worry. I have routinely filled up with zero range remaining and little to no fuel left on the line and in the yellow. It has taken 19.5 gallons a few times. I carry jerry cans so don't usually worry and cycle the cans through the engine every few months with some seafoam and stabil (it's ethanol free gas but still helps oxidation). Going over tracks or a few bumps isn't going to magically and suddenly run your pump dry with that much gas left. Now if you have a crappy or stuck float or a crappy or gummed sensor, all bets are off. My Outback actually needed a computer update to help the sensor or float read correctly as people kept running out of gas when it thought it had range remaining. Only time I have ever run out of gas, LOL.

I'd check fuses or look for a loose connection somewhere. BTW, just how hard did you hit those tracks??

 

[npgeorgeuw]

heck, i live life on the edge. Fuel low indicator all the time.

Least I'm not the only one but I always carry gas. I've had it within a half a gallon of what capacity probably is at least a dozen times. LOL.

 

[TwelveGaugeSage]

I tossed the gas can in the back the other day. Hit 0 range as I got to work. Drove home about 13 miles, but got anxious about it so I filled up. I hit shut off on the pump at 19 gallons and it slowly squeezed 2 more gallons in before I gave up.

 

[WK2JT]

Always seems like that last 1/4 tank goes faster than the other 3. This thing gives me worse range anxiety than an EV.

 

[Beemer533]

Gas Mojave with only 3 k miles on it. No signs of trouble. Mileage is OK and everything just works as a new Jeep should... Until today. Driving over some train tracks and after I clear them, suddenly no throttle response. Engine is still running though. Pull of the road thinking it's an ECU or battery issue and shut it off. When I try to start it, it cranks but won't start. It acted like it ran out of gas but gas is at 6% which looks like 1/8 on the screen.

Do you have a pedal commander or hikeit or something similar?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Did you get a check engine light or something? If a fuse went out or some module failed, you'd get a check engine light

There's been members who have had weird things happen, they pull and push the fuses and seat them and things settle down. It's amazing what a bad connection will - or rather - won't do as far as indicators on these. Heck, my wife's GC bucked like a damned rodeo bronco with a misfire - no code was ever set.
If a fuse goes completely - yeah, there should be an indicator, and modules or sensors can go intermittently and not trigger the MIL - I know that from a past Jeep I had. It took 3 dealer visits for them to finally find the culprit - a sensor. The thing would literally stop responding to the throttle for about 1 second, then go - I described it as acting like it was on ice - push the pedal and it sat like your wheels were spinning, then suddenly it acted like there was nothing wrong. It never shut down, engine never died, it just stopped responding to the throttle. No MIL.

 

[ScooterInTX]

Do you have a pedal commander or hikeit or something similar?

Neither.
Dealer confirmed it wasn’t a gas issue. The saga continues

 

[Rubiwoo]

not to high jack this thread, but I learned my lesson to get gas arouns 1/4 tank if not 1/2 tank after running out of gas in Mexico 25 minles away from our destination. Map said "gas xx kilometers", but it didn't say it was on the other side of the road with a dividing wall and no turn about... Live and learn

 

[Beemer533]

Man that sucks. Hopefully just something stupid like a fuse...

 

[slim chance]

last week on the way home from the Pa mtns, wife's JTHA was running lower than i usually let it .... the JTHA started to send emails to the wife telling her the gas was getting low .... no gas stations around ... got to the station about the same time she got her third email from the worry wart JT .... still had 3 gals left (based on 22 gal tank) ... ran good but it was starting to get annoying

 

[npgeorgeuw]

Always seems like that last 1/4 tank goes faster than the other 3. This thing gives me worse range anxiety than an EV.

I own an EV and agree with you completely. LOL

 

[Kilroy1941]

Sounds exactly like what my old WJ Grand Cherokee had happen. Turned out to be the engine crank sensor. Then again it was eighteen years old.

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