On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:00 PM, neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah. *That* reserve!  --- ;^)
>
> I was thinking literally a reserve tank. Like I had on my very first
> car. A '58 Beetle. Flip over the lever down by your right foot, and
> you had about 20 miles til empty.
>
> Yup. Good old reserve tank..... and no fuel gauge!
>
> Neil.

It's not exactly a reserve tank. The tap actually actually has an upper
drain for most of the fuel. When it ges to a certain level, you have to turn
down the lever so that the secondary hole lower on the valve lets the rest
of the fuel flow. VW's cheap solution for the missing gas gauge.

It seems to me  totally iresponsible way to save on production cost. How of
many of you have been on the highway at speed or an intersection when the
car stalls all of a sudden from lack of fuel caused by this valve? Corner
hard and it starves before the "normal" reserve section is even reached. It
was charming at the time but obviously not the safest way to build a car.

BenT