Quote Originally Posted by aaronng View Post
You can't do that and say that your tank is absolutely 40 litres. There is a reserve section where the needle is at empty but you have about 8-10 litres left at the bottom. And the thread you linked points to 50 litres.

Here is more proof that it is 50 litres. http://www.carsales.com.au/car-resea...d=127498A3A102
Thanks Aaron for the further triple confirmation.

To ddcc55rr: Aaron is right, so I won't repeat what he wrote. Do I own a DC4? I own a DC2. Exact same fuel tank beneath the rear seats. Don't rely on the fuel gauge. When the fuel warning light turns on in my car, I can get about 37 litres in. When the needle drops all the way to the bottom of the scale and it looks like that's it game over, I can get 41 litres in. Then I once tried to keep going still, and the needle pretty much fell off the scale at the bottom end. (Don't try this if you don't have a servo nearby). I got 43+ litres in at the fill-up. That means that there's still almost 7 litres sloshing around in there. But if you've seen how wide and flat the actual fuel tank is, the 7 litres will be spread out real shallow, maybe 1-2cm deep, at the bottom. So if you go up a steep hill, and the remaining petrol tips to one side in the tank and the fuel pump just might starve.

But, I don't get it, why can't you accept the cold, hard specification sheet facts concerning capacity, but continue to argue it?