Forecourt Spendthrifts

normally fill it right up with the good old shell derv(both the octys and the audi) but the octys can burn a tank a day quite happily most times more and the audi is wifes so it just gets filled anytime use it because "she doesnt like doing it"

anyone else use a shell reward card (the one that gets you back high street vouchers
 
Managed to get £53 worth of V-Power into the Fiat on Wednesday, which is the most I have ever spent on fuel in my life :(

Minimum was a few pence at a BP station, like ramirez it was a pump that dribbled out a few drops and then stopped working.
 
I normaly buy £30 (throwback from when £30 was 20% of the value of my car, anymore seemed like a risky investment).

However if I need fuel, and I stop somewhere expensive I'll only buy £5 and then get £25 when I get to somewhere cheaper.
 
Adz said:
£5 in a car I was test driving. Otherwise I just brim it. If you don't you're only wasting petrol driving to the petrol station to fill up again.
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I pass 2 petrol stations on the way to work and I only live 4.5 miles away. Filling up less on the bike means that I get better fuel economy and its way nippier on the acceleration when less than half full, its not lugging those extra kilos of fuel around. Mind you in the car the difference in weight would be so tiny as to not really make a difference so I see where your coming from.
 
I usually fill to the brim. Drive for a few days then hold my breath in and slipstream behind lorries panicking and hoping it will make it to the next services. Then repeat.

I want to make the least amount of stops I have to.
 
Don't think I've put less than £10 in, ever.

Lashout_UK said:
Not to sound cocky but I fill the tank, every time, to the brim and only revisit the fuel station when that runs dry again. I see no point doing it any other way.
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I used to do that, untill I bought a 1000kg car with no torque. Now I tend to fill up by £20's (half a tank)
 
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Normally, I fill up £10 or £20 at a time, depending on whether my brother will be using the car, he's good at never filling it.

Although it did cost him the embarrassment of sitting motionless on Kendal By-pass while we took 5 litres out to him.
 
I always brim mine. My flatmate only puts £10 worth in his 206 at a time cos he's "always skint" However he does that every 2 or 3 days, I just cant seem to get through to him that it's a waste of time and he might aswell just brim it, it's not as if the tenners worth is going to last the full week! I think he must somehow think that fuilling it 4 times at £10 a go is cheaper than just putting £40 worth in 1 hit!!
 
A few weeks back, I finished work @ 10PM and found that I'd forgotten my cash card, my reserve warning light had been on since my trip from Stoke to Market Drayton (about 17 miles from my house) that morning, so I knew I needed juice - urgently!

I felt such a tool handing about 2 quid in loose change to the cashier!

I got back into my car to find the fuel reserve light still on!

Got back home mind. :)

On the other hand, I've put just under ninety quid in it once!!!
 
lordrobs said:
Lowest amount was £3 in the Roomster I got as a loan car from Skoda :p

Lowest in my own car was a tenner when it was up for sale and generally the lowest is £20 if I want to top up before a long trip.
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Ditto re the Roomster, I felt DIRTY all over using the diesel pump, couldn't bear to put more in, had to stop before I was ill! :p

In my old car, always brimmed as was doing 500 odd mile a week, in thw pocty vRS no less than 10 as I don't use it half as much in filthy london.
 
I put about twenty quid in a Scania 17 tonner a few years back as it was low - I put in all the money I posessed - & I still ran out on the motorway and needed a recovery truck! :o - My Boss was'nt a happy chappy. :D
 
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