Factory installed wrong size full tank
For the last several months, I have been going at it with the dealer and factory over this issue. My tank is supposed to be a 31 gallon tank, but based on total mileage per tank and the number of g...
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AMG1978 wrote:
I had a 2015 F-150 with the 36G tank. I ran it a couple times like 20 miles below the "0 miles left" and I only ever got 33 gallons in it, filling it to the top where a little spilled out over the fill port. I asked Ford about it (ford corporate). they opened a ticket and the tech came back and said that internally with the baffles to eliminate sloshign and such can take up space in my tank and that is why i couldnt get 36g.
who knows if thats true, or if the gauge was just wrong.
the trucks gone now, but just sharing that stupid story.
I don't really pay attention anymore. But in the past I have seen "rated" capacity and the regular number. The rated capacity was the actual usable capacity.
