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