What's the most amount fuel you've put in your Golf?

[Mofo]

If it is that important to only fill once a week another solution is to plan your journeys a bit better and reduce your weekly mileage ?

It's not vitally important, just one less thing I need to do if I can avoid it. As I said in my original piece, I usually get home with about 20km DTE so I don't leave myself critically short.
Mate, I live on the Gold Coast and work in Brisbane, I've got my route planning down to the nearest metre There's no sidetrips involved here until the end of my working week.

[greygolf8]

Ive been down to about 20km dte and put in about 53l or so from memory. You can squeeze in an extra litre or so after the 1st click, if its not frothing too much.

Is the fuel pump at the tank or near the engine ?

[Transporter]

Ive been down to about 20km dte and put in about 53l or so from memory. You can squeeze in an extra litre or so after the 1st click, if its not frothing too much.

Is the fuel pump at the tank or near the engine ?

Yes, the fuel pump (fuel delivery pump) is in the fuel tank. It is cooled down by the surrounding fuel, so running on empty all the time is not very good for it especially in hot weather (I mean like some people buy fuel for $20 every week). I suggest that anyone who drives regularly to the empty gets familiar with how to get the engine running again after run out of diesel. Despite that some manuals may say just crank the engine until it starts it doesn’t start after 5s or 10s of cranking (it requires good and fully charged battery) and the fuel filter should be filled up with the fuel before you attempt to start up. So, carry some tools and handy little funnel with the hose to attach to the fuel filter with you for filling it up and to bleed the air out of it.

[Mofo]

Good information. Thanks all for your input.
Looks like we all fill the same amount once the DTE gets very low. This is obviously much more accurate than the avg fuel consumption reading which is always about 10% optimistic. Don't want to make the same mistake with the fuel guage!

[Transporter]

The one think you have to take onto equation also, is the error of the pump counter at the servo. I found it to be 50ml per L, of course – not + at many petrol stations.
I calculate the fuel consumption from the fuel docket. I would buy fuel at the different petrol stations until I found the one where I get the best fuel economy.

[greygolf8]

I had 40km left on the DTE and put in 52l Caltex for approx 800km previous. Thou the DTE changed from 60 to 20 depending on the loud factor driving to the cheap servo ... mmmm so 3l is still another 50kms.

Would the fuel pump sit in a sump such that its covered till ... 1l ?

[daft009]

filled 53.76l yesterday.
MFD said 10km to empty.