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- Mazda CX 5 Touring
I've only owned my cx-5 for a short while and have made two trips of ant length. I travel 194 miles one way to visit someone and return. Before I leave I make sure the tank is as full as I can at a very slow speed on the pump. This last trip it looked as if I might make it all the way home before having to refill. I normally start looking for gas at the quarter tank mark. I have what is a type b insrturment panel and it has segments in each quarter tank segment with a few more segments in the last quarter. Two of the segments in the last quarter had disappeared when I stopped for gas @ 25 miles from home. When I gassed up I got 13.5 gallons in the tank which with a 14.8 gallon tank I only had 1.3 gallons left and I still indicated over an eighth of a tank left. With each quarter representing 3.7 gallons an eighth of a tank should represent 1.85 gallons. This may seem like splitting hairs but I'm dubious/nervous about the accuracy of the gas gauge. I also noticed that when I topped the tank off the night before I got 4 gallons in after expending 157 miles which works out to @39 MPG. I'm pretty sure I reset the mileage after the previous fill up. The mileage from the long trip worked out to @26.5 MPG. Mileage seems to be all over the place.