last night whilst driving to work my petrol warning light lit up (50mls left)also at the same time i glanced down to the light and noticed a yellow light lit up for a few seconds and then went out!!!!a cicular lcd light,i thought you were supposed to get a audible warning aswell???or is that at 25mls left???not sure
iceman.

p.s. so what does the cicular yellow lcd light tell me.

don't no about the audible cos I never went that low always try to put petrol before light came on! For the yellow circle it could be to tell u about ur fuel like a warning light!

No, I've never heard an audible sound. My petrol light has come on at 50 miles like you describe, with the actual petrol light and also a round orange light on the left, then at 20 miles (oops I was rather naughty) the orange round light comes back on for a few seconds and '20 miles' comes up on the screen, then just the normal petrol light remains on. No sound.

You have to activate all chimes in the message centre menu.
The amber light will come on for information messages & will show red for more serious warnings.
When you have 50mls left the light will show amber & you get a chime, it then repeats at 25mls & 12mls.
Hope that helps

Well, I got all the way down to 0 miles left today! It never actually ran out though.

I have minimal chimes set, and I can say that at the following intervals the follwing occurs:

50 miles left: Petrol light comes on and orange warning light on left of dash
25 miles left: Orange light on the left of dash ilumintaes again
10 miles left: Audible alert goes off, Red warning light comes on on the left side of dash and remains on until you press the button on the left stalk to cancel it.

thanks for all the info folks,must get round to reading the handbook properly
iceman.

No probs mate, it's a bloke thing we dont need manuals

what fiesta manual!!!! o of course mines still in selophane wrapper...

i;ve had mine empty before, on the digital fuel gauge i had it down so much that there were no bars showing on the gauge! luckily the last bar went out just as i was pulling onto the petrol forecourt. i'd been on the motorway

only ever once run out of petrol funny enough in a xr2i h reg in 1992 on the a 580 east lancs road on a wet november evening ....not recommended

Iceman U managed to remenber this! that was a long time ago! U must have spend a really bad day!

Amanda you do you know could go at least another 15 miles when all of the bars go!! I know I have... actually I went 22 miles and I was sweating!!

I think they under read the actual amount of petrol left in the tank quite a bit, to ensure that you don't run out and damage anything.

Also remember that top gear thing where Clarkson drove with a camera in the tank, it looked empty but ran on fumes for ages!

babyboom i remember it well i was coming home from warrington in the wet looking for a petrol station had to get the rac out