I filled my gas tank to full and then i put the heat on and i notice that within 5 minutes my fuel goes from full to half in no time.
2007-01-13 10:13:57 · 8 answers · asked by doobin05 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Turning on the heater in your car has nothing to do with the gas in the tank. The heat is made from the engine and distributed inside the car. Your car burns more fuel in the winter, 1. Cold air draws more fuel into engine, 2. Fuel is kept in the ground at a warmer temperature then the winter air and contracts when it cools. Or its possible something could be wrong with your gas guage or the gas tank could be leaking.
2007-01-13 10:24:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your gas tank goes from full to 1/2 in 5 minutes, you have a serious problem and it has nothing to do with running the heat.
And no, running the heat will not affect your gas mileage that much, the AC will. If you have a defrost setting that uses AC it will burn more gas. But nothing should burn 1/2 a tank in 5 minutes.
2007-01-13 10:22:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO none of these codes have anything to do with you running low on gas. I don't know how many miles you have on your vehicle or what maintenance has been done to it so i cant answer all these questions for you properly without having a scan tool in my hand and seeing what the vehicle is doing in person. I would say you are running lean meaning the engine isn't getting enough gas but dosent have to do with your fuel level. In either case i would quit running your vehicle low on gas, the fuel pump uses gas to cool itself down and if you continue to do this you will be purchasing a new fuel pump right along with the repairs you will be doing to fix the 4 codes presently on your vehicle. Make no mistake erasing these codes will do nothing to help out they will come back. Just because you turn a blind eye dosent mean the problems go away.
2016-05-23 22:06:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you turn on the AC it's Thought to make a car burn more gas because of the extra load on the engine but the heater is ran off of the hot water that runs through engine and than through the heater core a electric fan blows air through it blowing the hot air into car. it has nothing to do with how much load that is put on the engine in your car. it sound like you have another problem.Maybe a bad gas gauge. Fill up and than when this happens fill up agan and see if the gas is there and your gettting a bad reading from your gas gauge.
2007-01-13 10:36:09 · answer #4 · answered by tim c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eh.. full to half in 5 minutes?! is that possible?! that must be shooting so much gas out.. did you smell gas in the air while you were walking to your car? i would think that much gas would make like a cloud of gas around your car lol... maybe your gauge or meter is wrong... or maybe your driveway is ona hill and once you left your driveway your tank leveled out and it went back to half which is the amount of gas you really have in your tank... i doubt it is something wrong with your fuel injectors or something.. becuase 5 more minutes on the road and you shoulda run outta gas.. which i doubt happened since you didnt say anything about that. have that checked out by a mechanic.. prolly something wrong with your meters... because your heater doesnt eat up gasoline...
OH! new idea! when you turned on your heater and went back inside.. someone probably took a pump and stole a half tank of gas from you while you werent looking. maybe your neighbor or someone driving by was extremely low on gas and needed some emergency gas and saw you as a nice prey. people do this a lot in parking lots and stuff. ive had a lot of friends who have caught people doing it to their cars and stuff. its a pain but what can you do.. atleast they were nice enough to leave you a half tank so you can get yourself to where you need to go >.<
thats the only logical thing i can come up with because you heater is totally seperate from your gas tank... and your fuel injectors and stuff must have been fine because logically, once you returned to your car and drove.. it should have run out of gas and died within 5 more minutes... and unless your driveway is at like a 90 degree angle.. my tank leveling out theory wouldnt really work that extremely.. it will usually only change your meter like a 1/4 way up or down at max.
2007-01-13 11:16:52 · answer #5 · answered by Corey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
running the heater has no affect on your gas mileage,,at all,, the air affects it some,,but the heater no,,if your loosing that much gas,you need a good car repair,,good luck.
2007-01-13 10:29:59 · answer #6 · answered by dodge man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
heat is warm air blown of the radiator fins, you need a tune up ar you have a leak.......it dosent use gas.....
2007-01-17 10:08:01 · answer #7 · answered by peterosefan1414 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all the heat does is heat your car, you stupid ***! your gauge might be faulty or you have some other problem
2007-01-13 11:56:32 · answer #8 · answered by cooter_brown872 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋