# Gas Guzzling Mystery **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [March 10, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-guzzling-mystery/11643 "2008-03-10T03:54:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![parkym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@parkym](https://community.cartalk.com/u/parkym)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-guzzling-mystery/11643/1 "2008-03-10T03:54:21Z")
How can a tank of gas disappear? After filling up the tank and paying $42, I drove 16 miles to work. On the way home, the gas light came on. How could my full tank of gas have disappeared? There was no leak and the gas cap is locked. ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-guzzling-mystery/11643/2 "2008-03-10T03:59:31Z")
Go fill the car up again and make sure the problem is not simply an electronic glitch causing the low fuel lamp to go stupid. That would not be unheard of, especially if the car? is aged or has high mileage. ---
**Author:** ![Opera\_House](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@Opera\_House](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Opera_House)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 7:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-guzzling-mystery/11643/3 "2008-03-10T07:56:14Z")
I remember when that was once a lot of gas! How do you know there was no leak when driving that 16 miles? What kind of vehicle and what does the gauge read? ---
**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 10:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-guzzling-mystery/11643/4 "2008-03-10T10:33:08Z")
Also did you park somewhere that someone may have stole your gas? ---
**Author:** ![SteveF](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/stevef/32/2_2.png) [@SteveF](https://community.cartalk.com/u/SteveF)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 10:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-guzzling-mystery/11643/5 "2008-03-10T10:33:33Z")
You don’t know that the gasoline has “disappeared.” My guess is that you still have most of what you recently purchased. Your electrical system is misreporting the situation. You need to find out for sure. ---
**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-guzzling-mystery/11643/6 "2008-03-10T20:49:06Z")
bet you’re glad you have a diesel, eh Joesph? 😛 Anyone tries to siphon fuel from you, they’ll have some problems. ---
**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-guzzling-mystery/11643/7 "2008-03-10T22:07:13Z")
``` Yea. ``` ---
**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-guzzling-mystery/11643/8 "2008-03-11T02:44:03Z")
$42 in gas? Big deal…so you bought about 3-4 gallons. Just kidding. Faulty gauge maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Opera\_House](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@Opera\_House](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Opera_House)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-guzzling-mystery/11643/9 "2008-03-11T09:04:35Z")
The real mystery is where the poster has disappeared to? ---
**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-guzzling-mystery/11643/10 "2008-03-12T02:53:52Z")
Maybe he found his misplaced gas. ---
**Author:** ![mconn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@mconn](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mconn)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-guzzling-mystery/11643/11 "2008-03-12T03:04:38Z")
Take the bus instead of driving one…