Is my car trying to leave me road side?

When I get down to an 1/8 of a tank, it reads 80 miles to empty and 55 MTE at a hair above empty with no gas light yet. Part of me believes it bc we have a 19+ gallon tank and it takes about 16 to fill up normally.

Does yours do this?

 

And i didn't even realize there was a gas light.....

 

I'll not let any of my cars, 993 or not, get close to empty. Don't want to risk whipping up the deposits on the fuel tank.

 

+1 mdude. I rarely allow my car to get below a quarter tank. I cannot say for a fact that it will collect any possible debris from the bottom of the tank or not but just call me superstitious. RC

 

Hmmm. I think that's a old wives tale relating to metal tanks and rust. Every fuel pickup I've seen sits on the bottom of the tank where deposits would sit. Not to mention a filter in the tank to catch them and a fuel filter following.

Driving aggressively would whip up deposit 😎😎

11 years of ownership and never an issue from driving the tank low. I guess if you didn't have the OBC showing DTE, I wouldn't drive below a 1/4.

 

This!^^^

Not to mention the stir up of sediment every time you fill up the tank!