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The1nonly1

The1nonly1

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Hi, Just curious as to how everybody fuels their vehicle. Currently I fill mine after each pay day (monthly) once I need to which costs around £40-£45. This can last me up until 4 or 5 days before the next pay day. However I'm thinking of trying fuelling up once per week for about £10 a time. Would this work out better given the car would weigh less or is filling the tank better? What does everybody do?
 
I fill it once a week if needed but I have budgeted for that. Depending on what I do in the evenings, a tank could last me 2 weeks.
 
It would make no difference in terms of weight saved effecting fuel economy to any noticeable degree.

I fill mine once every 5 days if I'm just using it for work, which costs me the grand total of about £15.
 
What you do is fine, the weight will make absolutely no difference to justify doing once a week - if anything, you'll expend more fuel travelling to the station once a week...

I'm still in a bad habit of putting £40-50 in at a time rather than filling up, don't know why... Always seem to be in a rush at the petrol station and can't be bothered standing around longer - i fill up once a week, sometimes every 2 weeks.
 
Wait until fuel gauge shows zero or near on, about 100 miles for town riding, then fill up on the way home. £20 lasts me around 2 weeks, without any additional trips.
 
The money saved with weight saving is then usually lost driving to fill up and time spent filling/queueing. Usually brim it and forget about it until I'm 40 miles into the warning light.
 
At least once a week , usually on Sunday , however i got a new car which is drinking petrol at the moment.

So looking at about £50 a week , and i usually brim fill.
 
Steeps said:
The money saved with weight saving is then usually lost driving to fill up and time spent filling/queueing. Usually brim it and forget about it until I'm 40 miles into the warning light.
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I've always done this and for the first time 2 months ago ran out half way up the hill to the petrol station :o

You'd think I'd learn from it but nope, still doing it...
 
The1nonly1 said:
Hi, Just curious as to how everybody fuels their vehicle. Currently I fill mine after each pay day (monthly) once I need to which costs around £40-£45. This can last me up until 4 or 5 days before the next pay day. However I'm thinking of trying fuelling up once per week for about £10 a time. Would this work out better given the car would weigh less or is filling the tank better? What does everybody do?
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Errr when I run low on fuel, I fill the car up. What else are you supposed to do?
 
I usually carefully calculate how much fuel i should need for each trip based on in depth analysis of previous fuel economy data, combined with expected traffic flow for that journey.

I then fill up using a jerry can and measuring jug on my drive.
 
Jez said:
I usually carefully calculate how much fuel i should need for each trip based on in depth analysis of previous fuel economy data, combined with expected traffic flow for that journey.

I then fill up using a jerry can and measuring jug on my drive.
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:p
 
£30 lasts me just over 200 miles and two weeks of driving. Will drop slightly with winter getting here now though.
 
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