Over 100 Gallons
 

Why is it when I enter over 100 gallons in a fill up it stops calculating. I just set my account up today and all the enteries worked just fine until I entered one that was over 100 gallons.

Are you entering a single fuel-up? Fuelly is designed to work with single fuel-ups.

Yes I have a 90 gallon aux tank so I can hold a total of 128 gallons

ok, just be aware that you are in an extreme minority of people who can fill over 100 gallons in a single fuel-up. You'll probably have some frustrating experiences entering fuel-ups here but the site should still work for you.

When you say Fuelly "stops calculating", what do you mean, exactly? Where are you running into trouble? On your vehicle profile page? On entering a fuel-up?

It stops adding up total mileage driven and averaging mpg. My first 2 entries worked fine then my third entry was 106 gallons and it stopped

Looks like the problem isn't the number of gallons--it's that you have some odometer readings out of sequence. Take a look at Your View All Fuel-ups page. Your odometer reading on March 19th is higher than your odometer reading on April 23rd. I bet if you fix those up you'll be set.

ok, now I'm seeing things. Your odometer readings are ok, I'm just not used to those long distances.

Behind the scenes we nix any fuel-up with total miles > 1500 because 99% of the time that's caused by a typo of some kind. We just put in an override for when people enter a greater value manually, but there's no override for behind-the-scenes odometer/mileage calculations. I just upped the limit to 1700, and we might need to revisit that at some point.

Most of our assumptions are based on a 50 gallon tank max.

Thank you. For you future revisit and FYI I'm and doing a lot of improvements to this truck and hopping for 2100-2300 per fill up. My next fill up I should see around 18 mpg which should put me around 2300 miles.

2300 miles at 18mpg ? I have pity on your wallet, although the loyalty card must love it !!!

Don't bring that truck over here, with our prices you will have tears in the eyes !!

nice truck though :-)

I have a neighbor with a giant 50 gallon auxiliary tank. At least you know that the longer you drive it the better your MPG gets!

128 Gallons? That's a years worth of miles for most people!

With that size tank on my car it would be time for an oil change everytime I filled up the gas!

18mpg for a truck is actually fairly good!

Most trucks don't even make 12mpg. Although it depends if you mainly drive in the city or on highways, and the size of your truck!

@pb: you could create a public override popup, for odo meters and gallons. Instead of you seeing the override, the user can override the value if he thinks it's correct.

That way instead of loosening up on the limitations, you can tighten them more, to make them more effective for the 99% other users here.

Yeah, we have the override for gallons just nothing for odometer readings. And we do allow odometer distances over 1700 miles for a single tank, we just don't calculate an MPG for that particular tank. That's handy if you're entering a bunch of fuel-ups in reverse order, or if you simply missed several readings and forgot to check the "missed" tag. It's a fairly permissive system already, it's just that the lack of MPG calculation on an individual tank is what twbhd04 noticed--the system accepted the fuel-up just fine.

I hear what you're saying though and we could go that route. It just might bug a few people in some of those odd situations I mentioned which might be an ok trade-off.

This seems similar to the problem I experienced back in April where I had gone 1538 miles on 44 gallons of Diesel and an unknown amount of used vegetable oil. I had to split my fill up into 2 separate entries so that I could have an accurate miles driven. 1700 miles will work for me, though 2000 would be even better. I'm currently at ~1400 miles on ~14 gallons of diesel, and I don't bother keeping track of my vege oil use, since I figured out it cost's me $0.04 (yes that is 4 cents) per gallon to pump, heat, and centrifuge 275 gallons at a time, which is really just my electricity usage.

I planned to refill before I had gotten to the 2000 mile mark, simply because I figured fuelly was setup to not accept mileage over 3 digits long in a single fuel up. if 1700 miles is the current cutoff, I'll make it a point to fill up before I hit that.