| A way to see how many miles per gallon (MPG) | | | | your fuel filter. |
| your Nissan car burns is to fill up your gas | | | | |
| tank and record the mileage from your | | | | Keeping fuel in your Nissan gas tank will |
| odometer. Drive your car in the way that you | | | | help keep the electric fuel pump cool as heat |
| usually do until you have gone through at | | | | will harm electronic components. The bottom |
| least a half a tank. Fill up your gas tank | | | | of the pump has a sock or a filter on it to |
| again and if you have, driven 100 miles (or | | | | prevent the pump from sucking up rust or |
| whatever) then divide that by the exact | | | | other particles. The fuel is further filtered |
| number of gallons your car took to fill it up | | | | in most vehicles with an inline filter. A gas |
| the second time. Your miles per gallon will | | | | tank that has a build up of "garbage" is a |
| vary each time you do this because of the | | | | lack of power after running for a period at |
| type of driving you did, like: stop and go | | | | higher mileage. The sock becomes clogged and |
| city driving or freeway driving, etc. | | | | starves the engine of fuel. Usually when a |
| | | | tank has debris of rust and such, the car is |
| Keep Nissan gas tank full so condensation | | | | usually in rough shape. |
| will not form or water will settle in bottom | | | | |
| of gas tank and rust and weaken. Your fuel | | | | The lower the fuel level is the more room |
| gauge tends to read the fuel level in your | | | | water has to evaporate out of the gasoline. |
| gas tank, regardless of the shape of your | | | | This causes rust in the fuel tank and when |
| tank | | | | you do run out of fuel, you are running on |
| | | | all the nasty stuff that's collected at the |
| The fuel monitor inside your gas tank does | | | | bottom of the fuel tank. Your car may |
| not go all the way to empty. Its range is | | | | originally hold 14 gallons for example. Then |
| full to about 1/8th. So, full is full, and | | | | later it only holds 11 because of all the |
| empty is really 1/8th. It is designed that | | | | sediment and rust that has formed over time. |
| way so you won't run out of fuel. Fill back | | | | Do not let your engine running on that entire |
| up when you get down to a 1/4 tank because | | | | gunk. Prevent this by keeping your Nissan gas |
| the bottom of your tank has trash and other | | | | tank as full as possible. |
| elements that can hurt your engine and clog | | | | |