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Is It Bad For Your Car If You Drive Until You Run Out Of Fuel?

Originally Published on AskPatty.com on March 15 2017 By Kaeli Gardner

So this happened recently.

Well, I didn’t actually run out of gas, but after sitting in afternoon stop-and-go rush-hour traffic for two hours, my “Miles to Empty” indicator dropped in one step from 14 miles left on the tank to alternating between zero and one mile left.

I pulled off the freeway immediately to find a gas…