5+ years, 3 Volt's and 1st FMM - Rat's

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BAZINGA

Discussion Starter · Jun 22, 2017 (Edited)

I knew it was lurking, bought our 2017 Aug 20th 2016. Have driven over 7400 miles and only have 50 miles on the ICE. VoltStats reports I'm operating my Volt at 99.3% all electric. My other two Volt's (2012 and 2013 driven over 45K miles) but they never needed a FMM. So today I get the FMM message and accept it. I have about 5 gallon's of gas in the tank. So I have one question and one observation.

Question: How much fuel will be burned off, all 5 gallons, a percentage, how much?

Observation: I know the door label shows my car was built 06/16, but since the FMM chose today to run, can I assume my car was "built" or given birth on June 22nd 2016, 365 days ago? I say that because there must be a clock/calendar built into the car and someone had to write the code to make this work and it makes sense to say "365 days from TODAY start FMM on the day the car registered fuel being added". Thoughts/comments.

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Barry

· #3 · Jun 22, 2017

I'm not the expert on FMM, but I think the mode does not stop after burning a certain amount, but after you add a certain amount of fuel. It think the amount you have to add is enough to lower the average age of the fuel to 6 months, so I guess that would be an amount equal to whatever is left in the tank when you begin to add fuel. Subject to some minimum amount that I think is about 1.5 Gallons.

Also, I think the number of days is not exactly 365, but within a few days of that number. And it may not have been fueled the same day it was built.

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