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#1
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hey my husband is off in BUDS seal training and i left his Camaro on all night on accident, it ran out of gas and battery. is this bad for the car? roughly 7 hours it was on with only a quarter of a tank. its ran out of fuel about 2 other times on me. is this something to be worried about? i appreciate the help.
#2
it COULD be...running your car that low on fuel is really hard on the fuel pump, you probably also killed the battery with no chance of bringing it back. battery isn't a huge deal, probably 80 bucks or so for a new one.
fuel pump is a different story...but lets hope we don't have to go into that. get a new battery, get some gas for it...see what happens
fuel pump is a different story...but lets hope we don't have to go into that. get a new battery, get some gas for it...see what happens
#3
^^^x2 plus these cars have a weird fuel gage, the design makes it that way. my last camaro ran out of gas at 1/8th tank. my current one has been to e and not run out. they both dropped from 1/2 tank down really fast so when i get to 1/2 i treat it like i have 1/4 .
#4
I doubt very much that you injured the battery. But drained it down, yes. A dead battery (from draining it like you did) doesn't mean a ruined battery. Just throw it on a charger, or get a jump start. Hopefully the cooling system works ok and the engine didn't overheat while idling...and idling...and idling. And if I were you, I wouldn't tell him what happened (although I'd wanna know)!!!
Last edited by Camaro 69; 04-15-2010 at 08:40 AM.
#6
just fill it up, get a jump, let it idle for 5-10 min, NOT 7 hours, then try popin of the fuel filter and check that out, if it doesnt have a bunch of gunk from the bottom of the gas tank you should be ok
#10
I know ive been told that when youre running out of gas the pump works harder and more sediment gets caught up in the filter, cloggy filter is no good, i ran out and i had to change mine, that only had 20,000 miles on it, and it was gross