[KiaCanuck]

The other day we had a snowfall in Ontario, it wasn't too cold ~-2°c and my Carnival was registering 65km left on the gas gauge (I know, low but there was supposed to be a $.12 price drop per liter so I parked it the night before and waited). My Carnival was backed into my driveway which has a slight incline (enough to get the car moving in neutral). I remote started it from the app and it ran the whole 10 minutes and self shut off, I got to the car just after this and went to start it (It was registering 65km remaining at this point) and it would not start. I tried 3 times and still no luck. I dropped it into neutral, let it coast down to flat ground and tried starting it again, it started immediately.

My gauges register that my fuel mileage is 8.9L/100km as I do mostly highway driving. I've had no other issues with the car, and have never had issues starting it. You'd think that Back up and Front down would be the better way with fuel needing to go to the engine but obviously not.

I'll be keeping the fuel a little more topped up in the future.

 

[Phantasm22]

The other day we had a snowfall in Ontario, it wasn't too cold ~-2°c and my Carnival was registering 65km left on the gas gauge (I know, low but there was supposed to be a $.12 price drop per liter so I parked it the night before and waited). My Carnival was backed into my driveway which has a slight incline (enough to get the car moving in neutral). I remote started it from the app and it ran the whole 10 minutes and self shut off, I got to the car just after this and went to start it (It was registering 65km remaining at this point) and it would not start. I tried 3 times and still no luck. I dropped it into neutral, let it coast down to flat ground and tried starting it again, it started immediately.

My gauges register that my fuel mileage is 8.9L/100km as I do mostly highway driving. I've had no other issues with the car, and have never had issues starting it. You'd think that Back up and Front down would be the better way with fuel needing to go to the engine but obviously not.

I'll be keeping the fuel a little more topped up in the future.

We had the same issue happen in our outback while driving up a hill towards a mountain. Gauge showed 60 miles remaining but it stalled out. Car service came to give us a gallon of gas and we were off and running. Lesson learned is that "mileage remaining" is under ideal conditions.