How much fuel do you keep in your shite?

[warren t claim]

Are you the sort of person who likes to brim their tank? Or do you not have enough faith in you jalopy to last another 350 miles?

[Mr Lobster]

Same as with most stuff really. Fill it up when it gets down to about 1/4 normally.

[retrogeezer]

£20 each time, fuel is too expensive to brim the tank. If something happens to the car I don't want to lose too much cash in fuel either.

[myglaren]

Wait until the red light comes on and fill it to the brim.

[VWPowered]

always in the red

[j-j]

Brim the LPG tank and keep £5 worth in the petrol tank

[warren t claim]

Brim the LPG tank and keep £5 worth in the petrol tank

That must really impress your passengers when after a 200 mile journey your fuel guage hasn't moved!!!

[Milford Cubicle]

I put £30 of diesel in today and brimmed the tank with 30 litres of used vegetable oil.I guess that makes it 54.5p a litre then. Excellent.

[dollywobbler]

Generally run 'em low but I always fill up. 2CV and Bond can't carry much fuel - 2CV's full at £20!

[shite_meister]

Generally £20-£30 a time, I only ever fill up properly if I've a long journey and since I'm on an island nine miles by five thats not that often, also its a combination of general tightness, knowing that I'd waste it thinking I've loadsa fuel and I'm paranoid that some of the shonky crocks I drive might be liable to become incontinent at any moment thus pouring liquid gold all over the shop.

[j-j]

Brim the LPG tank and keep £5 worth in the petrol tank

That must really impress your passengers when after a 200 mile journey your fuel guage hasn't moved!!!

tis true! though sometimes it just makes it look broken

[M'coli]

£10-15 when it needs it, if I'm gong on a relative-seeing trip it gets filled up. I usually don't use it to go to work as it's only half a mile away. Last year I filled the Cavalier up in the August, drove from Dumbarton to Yorkshire, and next put petrol in it in the October. The Avenger wasn't on the road at the time too.

[CIH]

£20 when I'm down to about 1/4 tank. Seems I lost my filler cap last time round. Currently got the neck plugged with an old sock lol.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I don't trust the fuel gauge, so I like to brim it every time. Also means I can calculate the MPG I think it's getting through too much.

[Lankytim]

Brim the LPG tank and keep £5 worth in the petrol tank

That must really impress your passengers when after a 200 mile journey your fuel guage hasn't moved!!!

The Audi has done 5000 miles with the petrol gauge in the red. How economical!

[warren t claim]

£20 when I'm down to about 1/4 tank. Seems I lost my filler cap last time round. Currently got the neck plugged with an old sock lol.

Shite-tastic!!! Old rag filler cap FTW!!!

[scooters]

due to their bering crud in my golf cabby tank I usually keep it quite fullthe moggy runs on airthe missus's850 drinks the stuffthe XM has a long range tank - 95 lts and costs 100 quid to fill - mind you I get 600 odd miles out of it!

[Spiny Norman]

I usually put £20 a time (of Sainsbury's posh 97 octane brew) into the Amazon every 100 miles or so. On Friday it spluttered to a halt. I had run out of petrol!

Turns out my fuel gauge is only good for determining variations between 'Lots', 'Some' and 'Are you feeling lucky today, punk?'

No worries since I had a spare can, but a lesson learned....

 

I think I'm going to get very friendly with petrol station staff with the Royale though....

[wuvvum]

Enough to get me where I'm going and back again. Although I never put in less than a fiver as that makes me look like a skint dole-scrounger. My latest purchase, a P reg Citroën AX 1.0i Début, is managing just over 50 miles to a fiver, which isn't bad - gets me to work and back twice. If I'm going on a really long trip (like I did on Saturday - Gravesend and back, 290 miles) I'll put in £15 or so at a time - guaranteed that if I brim the tank something will go wrong with the car.

[Pete-M]

I put fuel in mine normally when the fuel light comes on, or when I think I'm about to run out before getting to the next petrol station.I have a weird thing about preferring to keep money in my pocket instead of in the fuel tank. Happy to fill the tank if I'm going somewhere far, but the rest of the time I put enough in to get me there and back.Besides, carrying 80 odd litres of fuel about when I can make do with 20odd makes sense to me. In a strange way.

[ashmicro]

I like to keep the tanks between 3/4 and full. This is mainly due to a nightmare 25 mile journey in a new Ka which I started with almost a full tank, and got home running on the smell of an oily rag 5 hours later.About 8 inches of snow fell one Sunday in 1999 in the space of an hour, and Northern Ireland slid to a halt. After nearly getting wiped out by a tailsliding long-wheelbase 7 series and later an oil tanker on the M2, I got within 10 yards of my house when the fat, Cavalier-driving cockmuncher who lives accross the road ran into me.

[binhoker668]

always in the red

*Shakes hands with VWP vigorously*

[Richard]

I normally wait till the light comes on then fill it to the neck. The only petrol station in town is Tesco, if I find myself without enough fuel to go elsewhere I use the credit card to put 2 litres in at Tesco.

[mnde]

GSA: wait until the orange light flickers, then fill up with £20 of 95 RON. This only reaches half way on the gauge. So a range of roughly 140 miles. Curse at the price of fuel.BX (when it was in daily use): wait until the gauge is pointing at E (I know the orange light works but I hardly ever leave it that long), then fill up with 20 (or 25 if I'm feeling generous) litres of 95 RON, then add requisite amount of Valvemaster Plus with octane booster. Curse at the price of fuel.Strangely enough (having heard enough stories of gauge unreliability with Gs and BXs) both cars' fuel gauges have always been extremely accurate. Mark.

[Guest]

Most things I'll stick £10 in as required, on the basis that I need to use the tyre inflator on a regular basis. The one at Shell is free!I defy anyone here to beat Vicsmith with regards to budget fillups. Those "minimum quantity" signs on the petrol pumps only exist because of him and he still defies them. One time he put a tenner in a car and I had to question what I saw. It's OK though, because when it judders to a halt at the side of the road, he'll usually have a couple of quid sloshing around in a container in the boot. Got to give him that, he's prepared for the inevitable.

[babydriver]

I keep mine low for two reasons. 1 if the car gets nicked I hope the theif will give up on the locking fuel cap and 2nd when car is full of gold fluid some swine will right it off and you loose £50 notes of fuel after the insurance company tells you 'weve had to right it off sir, heres your tenner and don't darken our doors again'. Its happened before and they don't want to know you've just brimmed it and put new tyres on and given it a service etc.Scrap value................End of.

[FredTransit]

£20 when it's down to a quarter round town. Brim it when I am doing a long run. You don't want to keep a 68L tank full, and one of em has twin tanks we can't even afford to fill in this country!

[ChinaTom]

Best to keep the Jag at least quarter full - that's possibly only a few miles in a city centre traffic jam (or 3 to 4 attempts at the 114 point turn to get it into the garage). Only ran out once - the orange light lasted for 12 miles instead of the required 16 to the filling station. Carry two jerry cans for such occasions. Also, it runs terribly with a low tank - maybe a lot of crud in there.

[Jonnyvalenta]

Nearly all my fleet is diesel,so when the light comes on you can expect 40-60 miles before it all stops. However,the cuckoo in the nest is the tweaked 16 valve turbo saab! When the light comes on you have 15 miles from NOW to do something about it!

[Richard]

The Volvosaurus managed 5 miles between light coming on and running out. I've only let it get that low once.