Because that way price rises don’t impact you fikko
Shell petrol stations.
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At least all the nutters float to the top so we can discount any opinions they hold in the future.
I don't get why people are moaning about how much fuel someone puts in their car lol.
I always put in £20 at a time too. £20 gives me 200 miles of range and I only do 100 miles a week (I prefer walking everywhere). I cant think of one good reason why I would fill up £60 just so I can have a load of fuel sloshing round my car and evaporating away for an extra month. Also with the recent retarding of driving standards and roads being designed to increase accident rates, there's a massive risk of some idiot crashing full speed into my parked car, then I have £55 worth of fuel gone down the drain or burning away in a fireball.
I always put in £20 at a time too. £20 gives me 200 miles of range and I only do 100 miles a week (I prefer walking everywhere). I cant think of one good reason why I would fill up £60 just so I can have a load of fuel sloshing round my car and evaporating away for an extra month. Also with the recent retarding of driving standards and roads being designed to increase accident rates, there's a massive risk of some idiot crashing full speed into my parked car, then I have £55 worth of fuel gone down the drain or burning away in a fireball.
People with this opinion are hilarious. We're driving normal road cars here, not Formula One cars. You won't notice an extra tenth on your lap times between junctions 40 and 43.
Once the cap is on and is actually tight, it will not evaporate as it is a closed system. Hnce why a bottle of ether will last years when tight, or minutes with the lid off.
At least all the nutters float to the top so we can discount any opinions they hold in the future.
Yeah because anyone's opinion that differentiates from the *popular people* on these forums is considered a nutter. Especially in motors.
Just to add to this thread. For the sake of argument I tried a different shell today out of town, and had no issue with putting in £20.00 - this had a newer pump with a very sensitive handle so I can only imagine it's all in the handle of the stations that I visited and not some conspiracy I implied it to be.
I thought petrol was highly evaporative? And my car has fords capless filler system so I'm totally guessing that it's not completely sealed.
Imagine you leave 5 glasses of water on your coffee table and go to work on a relatively warm day.
When you come back all 5 glasses are now half empty.
Now if you leave 1 glass of water, only 1 glass will be half empty.
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Image 1 glass. Now imagine another glass 5x taller but the same diameter. That’s more like a petrol tank.
Which one evaporates faster (if tanks evaporate at all)?
Which one evaporates faster (if tanks evaporate at all)?
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Imagine two glasses. One full and the other only half full. While both still have water in which one evaporates faster?
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You just have to shell out a bit more when you go there.
Coat, I will get.
Coat, I will get.
It's great. First few times I used it, I was actually a bit nervous - there's no interaction at all, I thought the staff in the kiosk might think that I was driving off without paying
I know the feeling. At least you get a virtual receipt lol
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This is brilliant!!
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Only place I've seen that is Tesco.
And I know everyone pretends they are rich on the forum, but quite a few people have a weekly budget and can't afford to stick 80 quid in the car at a time.
I can stick a tenner in the car and that might last me a week, or a month.
Doesnt work with a fuel tank though, whether you put 10 or 50 litres in the tank it is a closed system and the surface area of fuel exposed to the outside air will be the same. In your scenario you increase the surface area x 5 so the evaporation is 5 times faster..
I think so to. It would be more like having 4 glasses over the course of a month how much is lost, vs 1 glass over the course of a week, 4 x the 1 week amazingly is the same as the 4 glasses over a month. Magic.
Dont get that either, say you do 100 miles a week so put £10 a week in. How is that any different or less expensive than filling the tank at £40 and getting 400 miles.The fact someone has a weekly budget doesn't come into it.
Its a bit like saying only buy 1 slice a bread a day because i cant afford a full loaf once every week.
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I have a credit card that I only put fuel costs on, so I just have a monthly fuel payment that comes out after my pay goes in.
Might be a solution if you can't afford the whole lot in one go.
Might be a solution if you can't afford the whole lot in one go.