Fuel up/down again

ashrobbo · 2 Feb 2011 at 09:28

birmingham->plymouth

in the 1.6 PETROL fiesta zetec s, 47mpg

this fuel lark has really slowed me down from my average of 33mpg.

mattyprice4004 · 2 Feb 2011 at 09:31

I've not dared to put a full tank in for a good while, usually go to £30 which is half a tank and gets me 160 miles.

antijoke · 2 Feb 2011 at 09:35

I've noticed as well that the limit for fuel is £80. Seems they will have to up that limit.

Fr0dders · 2 Feb 2011 at 09:43

Jez said:
Loads of cars require more than £80 worth of fuel, what a bizarre cut off limit (although depressingly i suspect historic not imagining that >£80 will become a normal fill)

I'll have to try somewhere else and see if they have a higher limit.

Its a tesco metro with an esso station which makes it handy for getting a bit of dinner on the way home from work.

When it was £1.10 a litre £80 got you about 73 litres - which was always enough as i've never managed to get the tank that low.

But now it barely even gets you 65 litres.

rypt · 2 Feb 2011 at 10:43

Asda and Tesco here both have £99 as the limit for the self serve

mattyprice4004 · 2 Feb 2011 at 11:01

rypt said:
Asda and Tesco here both have £99 as the limit for the self serve

Just about to say that.

Janesy B · 2 Feb 2011 at 11:04

£120 limit at my local Morrisons for pay at the pump.

Blackhawk47 · 2 Feb 2011 at 11:10

Filled the tank from near empty on Sunday, came to about £17...very small tank.

Jez · 2 Feb 2011 at 11:14

rypt said:
Asda and Tesco here both have £99 as the limit for the self serve

Seems to be £99 on most pumps ive used, PITA in certain vans even then!

mattyprice4004 · 2 Feb 2011 at 11:16

Blackhawk47 said:
Filled the tank from near empty on Sunday, came to about £17...very small tank.

Grrrrr.

Jez · 2 Feb 2011 at 13:32

mattyprice4004 said:
Grrrrr.

Just sounds annoying to me, an old mini wont be amazingly economical either i wouldnt imagine. Just means you are filling it up on a daily basis.

I am not sure if a £17 tank would even get me to work and back

mattyprice4004 · 2 Feb 2011 at 13:34

£17 is about 80-90 miles for me, so would be pretty useless.
Full tank works out at £79 for me at the moment.. but that's 450 miles apparently. Believe that when I see it...

EddScott · 2 Feb 2011 at 14:27

In a moment of darwin-esque thought, I decided to put Tesco Momentum into my Jeep Cherokee. Think I put 60L in and it was over £80 odd.

I wanted to see if the Jeep would feel different for having slightly more pep in the fuel and if it made any difference to MPG. I also thought well, if it doesn't make any difference at last the next time I fill up it will be cheaper

Moeks · 2 Feb 2011 at 14:33

Jez said:
Seems to be £99 on most pumps ive used, PITA in certain vans even then!

Both of our cars can take a bit more than that if they are running on fumes when you fill them up, now tbh I don't let mine drop that low but even so ...when the limit isn't high enough to fill your car from empty it's a bit silly.

Andr3w · 2 Feb 2011 at 15:06

Oxford services, petrol was 138 and devil juice was 140 :eek:

IrishChr1s · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:01

I put £35 into my e46 as i needed to do a 108 mile trip, this half filled the tank, by the time i got home the light came on, seems a bit of a drinker :S

mrk · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:06

What E46?

216 miles from half a tank doesn't seem bad from a 6cyl especially if it's a 323/328 and moreso if the light came on when you got home so you'd have about 60 miles left anyway.

SpazzyCazzy · 2 Feb 2011 at 17:39

30 quid seemed to last me about 200 miles. I wonder if that's ok? Not had the car long & filled it from empty, it cost 60 quid. 6 days that took to reach half a tank. It was about 40 quid a week for the RAV4 so an extra 40 quid a month will be a bonus.

MissChief · 3 Feb 2011 at 00:35

EddScott said:
In a moment of darwin-esque thought, I decided to put Tesco Momentum into my Jeep Cherokee. Think I put 60L in and it was over £80 odd.

I wanted to see if the Jeep would feel different for having slightly more pep in the fuel and if it made any difference to MPG. I also thought well, if it doesn't make any difference at last the next time I fill up it will be cheaper

Problem is it might take 2-3 tank fulls for the ECU to be 'used' to the better stuff.

Tute · 3 Feb 2011 at 01:27

I'm getting through a silly amount of fuel at the moment. I'm considering moving away from V-Power back to standard diesel to save money as it's just silly. I got caught short on the A38 the other day and ended up paying 141.9.

Currently doing circa 600 miles a week, 500 miles to a full tank at about £70.

I still maintain it should be illegal to milk the motorist like this - by all means tax tobacco, luxury goods, and alcohol but fuel should be capped by law.

I expect Fox will be along shortly to tell me that i'm wrong to think like that.