Fuel up/down again
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Soldato
It's about 20p more per litre than this time last year - here is my figures for last year I think I missed a receipt in Aug or something, though. Car seems to be pretty consistent on the average MPG, problem is it's mostly short journeys at ~ 10 miles or so.
Soldato
378 and 349 miles from the tank on the motorway trip when I went south for a weeks holiday.. The difference between those two figures is probably due to 'holiday/town' driving. So If I didn't pootle commuting 10 miles and instead went on motorways I could get 80+ miles more per tank.... i.e. a free tank every 4
Why?
I use mine to track maintenance and my millage. It takes 30 seconds to add the data.
Soldato
Having just read through the last 4 pages -What an interesting thread!
It's very grim filling up these days, I remember feeling aggrieved when I used to get £1 a litre. Now watching the litres display struggle to get anywhere near what I'm paying. I guess its a good job I only use my car for convenience and fun as I'm sticking even more expensive V Power in it.
I think I'd kill myself if I kept a fuel spreadsheet.
Oh, and to round the evening off, -Ad- has a quote of mine as his sig.
1000 points to whoever can guess who it was directed at. Looks like some menstrual cycles take a while to come full circle. I only wish my lady's occurred only once every 6 months
It's very grim filling up these days, I remember feeling aggrieved when I used to get £1 a litre. Now watching the litres display struggle to get anywhere near what I'm paying. I guess its a good job I only use my car for convenience and fun as I'm sticking even more expensive V Power in it.
I think I'd kill myself if I kept a fuel spreadsheet.
Oh, and to round the evening off, -Ad- has a quote of mine as his sig.
1000 points to whoever can guess who it was directed at. Looks like some menstrual cycles take a while to come full circle. I only wish my lady's occurred only once every 6 months
Soldato
Well I'm not really a spreadsheet master, I usually keep the receipts for fuel in my car and just tally them up at the end of the year. Took about 30 mins to enter the data in.
Helps me to confirm my MPG and cost per mile and other things. My xantia 1.9td I had from 05-08, similar amount of mileage only cost me about 850 quid for fuel over the year. I think that returned about 33-35 mpg which is not great but expected for the type of journeys. Also fuel was obviously cheaper then.
There was a short time there whereby it was almost 1:1 on the pump fuel/£cost .
And the numbers above suggest slightly warmer weather increases my economy slightly. (or the colder weather reduces it)
Helps me to confirm my MPG and cost per mile and other things. My xantia 1.9td I had from 05-08, similar amount of mileage only cost me about 850 quid for fuel over the year. I think that returned about 33-35 mpg which is not great but expected for the type of journeys. Also fuel was obviously cheaper then.
There was a short time there whereby it was almost 1:1 on the pump fuel/£cost .
And the numbers above suggest slightly warmer weather increases my economy slightly. (or the colder weather reduces it)
Associate
Can't believe this thread doubled in size within a day.
Same around the whole of London and elsewhere. Petrol stations close and they build houses/flats on top of them.
From my observations in Greenwich, there is a Sainsbury's, Asda, BP on the west and BP on the east of Sainsbury's. Sainsbury's and Asda are about the same price, the BP on the west and east are 1 or 2p more expensive. There used to be a Jet close to the Sainsbury's and usually the same price or 1p more than Sainsbury's but that closed down a few years ago.
Good price! I filled up yesterday at 124.9p with normal unleaded at a Sainsbury's
An article about petrol retail in 2010: http://www.forecourttrader.co.uk/cp/1/FCT_fuel_market_review_06_2010.pdf
If you CBA to read the whole article, just read the summary on the 1st/2nd pages.
Nice spreadsheet whitecrook, but like Gaijin I can never get myself doing that
Same around the whole of London and elsewhere. Petrol stations close and they build houses/flats on top of them.
From my observations in Greenwich, there is a Sainsbury's, Asda, BP on the west and BP on the east of Sainsbury's. Sainsbury's and Asda are about the same price, the BP on the west and east are 1 or 2p more expensive. There used to be a Jet close to the Sainsbury's and usually the same price or 1p more than Sainsbury's but that closed down a few years ago.
Good price! I filled up yesterday at 124.9p with normal unleaded at a Sainsbury's
An article about petrol retail in 2010: http://www.forecourttrader.co.uk/cp/1/FCT_fuel_market_review_06_2010.pdf
If you CBA to read the whole article, just read the summary on the 1st/2nd pages.
Nice spreadsheet whitecrook, but like Gaijin I can never get myself doing that
Soldato
My MPG is down almost 10mpg due to the winter.
I used to have my data on the fuely (sp) website but I can't seem to track down a url for it now. Is it still going?
http://www.fuelly.com/
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Go look in the mirror.
Caporegime
Lets hope the price of V8 engined cars takes a nice hit this year, hopefully the cost saving on buying the car will more than pay for the extra fuel costs.
I've seen standard petrol for £1.31 here
...organised? I don't get what you're trying to say, there is no harm in keeping tabs on it.
...organised? I don't get what you're trying to say, there is no harm in keeping tabs on it.
Soldato
Happens here as well... My thought is that, due to the colder air being much denser than warmer air, and therefore more air is put into the cylinders on each stroke, the engine needs to chuck in more fuel to keep the mixture right.
You should find your car a tad nippier with much colder air than warmer for the same reason (basically how forced induction via turbo/supercharger works - squeezes more air in than normally aspirated engines)
Soldato
That would result in more power though, so what actually happens is you press the throttle less such that the air mass is similar enough.