Poll: Do You Brim Your Tank?

Do You Brim It?

  • No

    Votes: 111 24.9%

  • Yes

    Votes: 335 75.1%
  • Total voters
    446
Depends in my car as I have a company Allstar card I brim it then click click click click till it'll take no more, in the wife's car brim it till it clicks once, may be a myth but if you keep clicking it it doesn't register the fuel correctly at the pump i.e. charges you more, may be a load of tosh but that's what I do anyway
 
Brim it - by the time I faff about looking for the cheapest garage it's not worth doing £20 at a go. Brim it and when it's below 1/4 and I'm passing the cheapest garage (always 1 of 2 on my way to work) refill. I know I lug about 50l of fuel, but with the difference in fuel prices in my town to works town it more than repays itself.

FluffySheep
 
I'll normally brim the tank unless I've ended up at a motorway service station and it's stupidly overpriced but even then for the amount I'd save it's not usually worth the hassle of doing a part fuel. It's fairly rare that I need to refuel en-route though as one tank usually does me from London to Edinburgh without much issue.
 
El_Watcher said:
Has anybody ever studied the differences in fuel economy due to extra weight of filling the tank to different levels?
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I haven't but I haven't ever noticed a difference in the live readout on the BMW - not that I attribute any accuracy to that whatsoever - but if the error margin can be considered constant then no, having five litres or sixty five litres on board makes no difference.
 
2 clicks is enough for me (Just in case the first was a 'false alarm'), can't be bothered faffing around getting every last drop in the car.

Had a exception over the weekend though when I only put £20 in on principle. There's a BP on the A11 which I usually go out of my way to avoid using as it is *always* exactly 2p/l more than the Shell on the other side of the road. Unfortunately the Shell is temporarily closed, it was early on a Sunday morning and I was getting very low so I had to stop there.
 
I have a thing about odd (unusual, not the opposite of even) numbers, so I brim it then slowly creep it up to the nearest 50p or pound.

It does my head in when the pump creeps up by a penny from say £59.95p, 96p, 97p, 98p, 99p then jumps to £60.01p. :mad:

Then I have to go to £60.50p and if I miss that, £61.

I'm sure some pumps have this 'feature' built in to scam an extra quid or so out of stupid people like me.

It also means that I nearly over-filled the MX-5 the other day. Luckily petrol everywhere > OCD so I gave up just in time.
 
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