CALLED ROAD SERVICE or FLAG down some HELP! Get a GAS CAN and fill it with fuel!>> WHen you get it ALL in the tank, turn the key OFF and ON a few times and the FUEL PUMP will prime the system BACK to normal! After about FIVE or s ON/OFF tries, just TURN THE KEY to START and it SHOULS start EASILY! It is NOT like the OLD DAYS of engines with CARBURETORS! >>IT WIL DO NO GOOD at all to PUMP the “AIR” pedal, cuz THAT is what it IS! The PEDAL only adds AIR to the injected FUEL and does NOT pump GAS into anything like a CARB car does! >>>just ADD some gas to the TANK at the station and then DO as I WROTE here! Turn the key OFF and ON only a few times and THEN try to start it! There are TWO fuel lines! One goes to the ENGINE and the OTHER on goes BACK to the tank! There is FILTER and a FUEL PRESSURE REGULATOR in between. CNSIDER replacing the FUEL FILTER at some point NOW! It PRIMPS the gas as you drive the car and CLEANS the GAS as you drive it! I once had a CLIENTT with a VW BEETLE and the CHECK ENGINE LIGHT came on! The DEALER checked it and said the TRANS was SHOT and a replacement was about $7,000! When I got it, i I replaced teh FUEL FITLER and the PCV filter and hose and the TRANS RAN FINE again ! BE CAREFUL with

Yes. Three times. About 10 pm, 20 miles from Three Forks, Montana. I got a tow truck, though I really can’t remember how I got it to come. Also in the middle of nowhere in northern Ontario, fortunately in the afternoon and in downtown Toronto very late in the evening. I hitchhiked to a gas station those two times. All these were many years ago, a couple of them long before there were cell phones. I check my gas supply pretty carefully these days.

Only time I ran out was in my first car 1958 VW imported from Germany. I was taking my mom’s friend’s ugly daughter to look around a community college campus where I was attending. Sitting at a light about 3 blocks from the gas station the bug died. I said I ran out of gas – and her eyes got big – then I reached down to the firewall, flipped the lever to reserve (never tried it before so I was hoping it was in the correct position) pulled the choke and it started. Wahoo.

Only once – decades ago.

Had a gallon of Methyl Hydrate in the back, some of which we dumped into the gas tank.

disclaimer —- this was an old car with a faulty fuel pickup. When it ”ran out of gas” there was always almost 3 gallons in the tank. So it wasn’t like we ran the car on straight methyl hydrate.

A mechanic told me later that we would not have killed the engine even if we had, because we only drove about 5 miles to get fueled up

Yes.

I put gas from a gas can into the gas tank and drove to the gas station and filled up my tank.

@CB:

A big-eyed, ugly girl?  ????

You make me laugh!

Thumb up for humor. ????

She got better looking.

Only once.  I had a remote job I needed to do for a previous employer and they gave me a company truck that was already running on fumes when I started it.  I had no intention of putting any more gas into it so I took a chance…  It ran dry about 10 blocks from returning to work.

Luckily there was a gas station a few blocks away and they were kind enough to lend me a jerry can so I could put enough gas in it to return the truck to work.  I put $5 worth of fuel into it but gave the station attendant $10 for the loan of the jerry can.  He gave me a receipt for the 10 bucks and I was reimbursed by work.

No, But, a gas leak caused the tank to go from 1/.4 to  E   Very Fast.  Empty in  16 miles.  I walked to a station 300 yards away, and he came back with a can.

1/4 tank in that old El Camino was  5.5 gallons.

Edit: Flag Michael was an Idiot.  And, Long Gone. Said he was in “Arizona”, but lied. It’s the MVD in AZ, NOT the “DMV”, for  one  thing. Lumped “psychopaths ” with  ex cons. Said he had “PTSD from a high school ‘incident’ ”