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It's been one of those unfortunate days today, where all three cars needed re-fuelling at the same time....And two had been run pretty low (thankyou, dear wife! :lol: )

 

NEARLY £120!!!!! :shock:

 

I've always maintained that I'll never be rich while I run A car....With three I'm doomed to poverty forever I think! :(

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Yes, it's crazy. Filled up the estate with DERV the other day - it was empty, and it's got a 70ltr tank - so over £70! Great.However I have purchased 20ltrs of vegetable oil from Costco today for £13, so I am going to try a 50:50 mix in the saloon once the tank level drops down to about half full.

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This'll probably annoy more than surprise, but I filled up the Pajero with #93 before I came back to UK for 38 quid. It has the optional 110 litre mega tank, and I put 107 litres in it. Once again, that's 38 quid. Our drivers moan about the price of #93 (that's normal unleaded) as it has increased in price by 25% in the last 2 years.I filled up the Jag at Tescos this morning, and this would have bought me over 200 litres back in China.On the bright side, I got 680 miles from a tank (-0.5%) in the Rover 75. That can't be bad. What is bad however is that 70 quid only gets you 260 miles in a 6 litre 12 pot despite the optimistic fuel computer boasting an average of 19.3 mpg. I knew it was too good to be true.

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I've not filled any car up for about a fortnight now, envy me and my low mileage! Half a tank left in the Galant, that should do me until the new year at least. Lovely.

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I cannot fill up my BMW as it pisses the fuel all over the floor. I have a special credit card for filling up the Astra Van. Couldn't give a shit how much it costs, cos it just gets passed on to clients. Hillmans never move so no bother there. That just leaves the trouble & strife's focus, which costs about £53 to brim when she runs it dry. Which is most of the time. :roll:

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I never normally put more than a tenner in unless I have a specific journey to make - every time I fill a vehicle right up you can guarantee it's going to go wrong pretty much immediately. On Wednesday night I went from Norwich to Clenchwarton and back to pick up an organ - a round trip of about 90 miles. The Mazda managed it on £8-'orth of unleaded, which isn't too bad really. The Renner Six managed the 130 miles back from Sevenoaks on about £13. At the other end of the scale, the 164 uses about £13-worth of super unleaded to do 50 miles. Moral of the story - drive a small car. Or buy an old diesel and run it on chip fat of course. I have a hankering for an 825D at the moment...

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The cost of petrol really is getting scary-well over sixty quid to fill the 25. I remember when I 1st started driving, petrol was 30p a gallon! But.......... did you see Jeremy Clarkson talking about petrol costs on TG the other week?If you subtract the tax cost, it's actually ASTONISHING that the cost of oil exploration, transporting the crude to the refinery, refining it, transporting the petrol to the distribution centres, and then hauling it out to the garages can be covered, with a profit, out of what's left! Compare it, say, to the cost of beer!!! :shock:

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Petrol is 1.14 Euros (81p) in the cheaper stations here in Ireland, which is shit as that that's 14 cents more in less than a year I think. Governments use the environment to gouge taxes out of people, and make people feel guilty for disagreeing. My car is not a daily driver until the brakes are fixed, nor will it be really, given I have a motorcycle, though an exceptionally thirsty one, a Harley Davidson VRSCR. 23 mpg in city traffic, though better on the open road obviously.Even if the brake parts come, I need to fix the 16/60 fuel gauge. I have BL workshop manual now, so it should be okay. I hope the fix does not involve ordering things.

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Every now and then we get a '5p off each litre' for tescos fuel. We usually take 2 cars and fill them both from the same pump! 8)

I've had a few of them, it's amazingly disheartening though that if i use it while filling my astra, i manage to save a whopping 2.80 odd off the cost of the tankfull.Greeeaaaat.
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I've done it with a few cars (Rovers 220Di, 420SDi, 825D) with no ill effects apart from taking longer when cold starting. I did bung diesel, and injector cleaner in the odd time to clean out the system though.Straight veg' oil is fine in older, more basic diesel engines with Bosch pumps.

I've heard it is fine in most diesels too - however, I regularly had to change deep fat fryer oil a few years back, and stored the spare oil in a large stone cellar - it goes quite white and lumpy at low temperature! Apparently the answer to this is to mix a bit of parafin in and filter it...When I'm transfering petrol out of cars at the yard, I have a handy little tool to help - namely an old SU fuel pump with crocadile clips on the wires & big fuel filter attached bolted to a bit of dexion - I just plug it to a spare battery and let that do the work - I suppose a similar contraption could be rigged to put vege fat fuel through a filter and into a tank...I know if the fuel prices go much higher I will be joining the oil burning club...
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When I'm transfering petrol out of cars at the yard, I have a handy little tool to help - namely an old SU fuel pump with crocadile clips on the wires & big fuel filter attached bolted to a bit of dexion - I just plug it to a spare battery and let that do the work

:D neat!
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