rip off fuel/decent price fuel thread

[scooters]

Moto at Kinross this morning was £1.45.4 a lt of BP cooking unleaded - !!!

Diesel was £1.59.3

sainsburys in Edinburgh was £1.30.1 for cooking unleaded

 

sadly the Scoob needed some juicebadly so we bunged in a tenner...

 

used Sainsburys for the BX and they don't shout at you when you are jump starting the car in the forecourt

[boobydoo]

used Sainsburys for the BX and they don't shout at you when you are jump starting the car in the forecourt

 

 

[Negative Creep]

Decent price fuel? That's an oxymoron surely?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Rip-off: Diesel, Petrol

 

Decent price: used vegetable oil, 'tax free' CNG from means gas (always check with HMRC )

 

Just about bearable: LPG, new veg oil

[mnde]

used Sainsburys for the BX and they don't shout at you when you are jump starting the car in the forecourt

 

 

 

Oh god, that reminds me of the time when I was driving a GS Estate back from darkest Essex.... which had a starter problem and it needed the old hammer treatment from an assistant to get it going. So I thought all the time "I mustn't stall, mustn't stall"... but the only thing was I had to fill it up at a service station.

 

So I left the engine running while I filled up

 

No-one said anything. Even though the exhaust was shot to buggery and it made an awful racket....

 

Mark.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Due to something wrong with the ignition (can't quite remember whether it was the starter or sth else), I've left a car (mk3 Granada 2.0 DOHC) running for half an hour in a carpark at Brum airport while I went inside to collect my mum who had come to visit me! There wasn't anyone daft enough to steal it.

[Lord Sterling]

I noticed that in Birmingham on the South side of the M6, petrol is at around £1.36.9, but on the North side (Erdington/Minworth etc...) petrol is at £1.31.1

[Andrew353w]

Not sure if the recent death of ex-President Ghadaffi of Libya has anything to do with this, but I saw unleaded at £128.9 in Enfield this afternoon!

[Pete-M]

The Interceptor I used to play with used to like doing dangerous things in petrol stations.

 

When bringing it home from buying it the bloody thing decided to be a bugger to start in a small petrol station just outside Warrington. Only other car we had there was a 911 so that got the mission of trying to feed the Jensen enough power to get the bloody thing to go.

 

Of course, the Jensen, being a grumpy old tw@ of a thing spat back through the carb and set fire to the air filter, whilst attached to the Porsche by jump leads, just as the fuel tanker arrived to top up the station... Cue one tanker driver out-sprinting Linford Christie in an attempt to get the hell out of there.

 

Oh, and to whoever in West Bromwich decided it'd be a good idea to bolt down the air filters, nice one... you put the shits up everyone that day. Jensen survived without a blemish, but the air filter chrome bit needed a fair bit of polishing...

 

Oh, Sainsbury's 130.9/l for petrol, 138.9 for Satan Spunk.

 

Local BP 138.9 for the gentlemans fuel, 144.9 for diseasel, 80.9 for LPG.

Local Shell, 131.9 for unleaded, 136.9 for that orrible stuff, 70.9 for LPG.

[Cavcraft]

BP garage M180 a few weeks back were charging both arms, several legs and a few vital organs per litre of diesel. Today though I scored some WVO for the princely sum of sod all.

[DSdriver]

All motorway services charge like a wounded rhino. If I ever need to use them I only put in as little as possible.

[dollywobbler]

All motorway services charge like a wounded rhino. If I ever need to use them I only put in as little as possible.

 

This. Everyone should avoid filling up at motorway services. I fill the 2CV up, just because it only generally takes about 20 litres anyway. Anything else can have a splash to get me home, or to a cheaper station.

[Guest Len H]

I get most of my fuel from a hotel for 0p/l. I do have to mix it with some real fuel now it's colder. £10-£15 pounds to go 500 miles.

[scooters]

I get most of my fuel from a hotel for 0p/l. I do have to mix it with some real fuel now it's colder. £10-£15 pounds to go 500 miles.

 

do you have a pre heater fitted? Are they necessary for running on veg.

 

I've got a Lucas pump in the 306 and they say you cant run it on veg oil but I have heard that you can at 50/50 oil/diesel or in winter 25/75 oil/diesel and the lucas pump should be ok? Is this the case?

[jonathan_dyane]

I get most of my fuel from a hotel for 0p/l. I do have to mix it with some real fuel now it's colder. £10-£15 pounds to go 500 miles.

 

do you have a pre heater fitted? Are they necessary for running on veg.

 

I've got a Lucas pump in the 306 and they say you cant run it on veg oil but I have heard that you can at 50/50 oil/diesel or in winter 25/75 oil/diesel and the lucas pump should be ok? Is this the case?

 

You can, but at some point the pump will die.

 

Somewhere I have the Bosch IP and injectors off my old Xantia. You can have them for nowt if I can find them...

[scooters]

I get most of my fuel from a hotel for 0p/l. I do have to mix it with some real fuel now it's colder. £10-£15 pounds to go 500 miles.

 

do you have a pre heater fitted? Are they necessary for running on veg.

 

I've got a Lucas pump in the 306 and they say you cant run it on veg oil but I have heard that you can at 50/50 oil/diesel or in winter 25/75 oil/diesel and the lucas pump should be ok? Is this the case?

 

You can, but at some point the pump will die.

 

Somewhere I have the Bosch IP and injectors off my old Xantia. You can have them for nowt if I can find them...

 

that is a very kind offer - are you sure? You could get decent dosh for them on ebay as they are in demand

[jonathan_dyane]

that is a very kind offer - are you sure? You could get decent dosh for them on ebay as they are in demand

 

They've been lying around for a few years so best to view as condition unknown, and I did run the car they were from (which I scrapped due to it being a shed and the clutch dying) on veg, so it might be all gummed up inside from standing and a useless ornament, but at free perhaps worth the risk. (Or you could take it to bits and clean all the insides if you dare; apparently not beyond the wit of man...)

[garbaldy]

Or if your wanting to just see how long your lucas pump will last on veg ive got a good one sitting in the shed you can have if and when it lets go, also got most of the other engine bits lying up in the rafters.

[chaseracer]

Took Sprog + mate to a gig in Hanley last night.

 

Going in, Sainsburys had UL for 129.9; going out, 130.9. Do they change the prices under cover of darkness in the vain hope that we won't notice...?

[retrogeezer]

it's 5p a litre dearer here in Crewe, just 15 miles from Hanley!

[whitevanman]

here in the back arse of nowhere the Morrisons and Sainsbury's have Pez at £1.31.9 and the might Dizzle at £1.36.9

[scooters]

Or if your wanting to just see how long your lucas pump will last on veg ive got a good one sitting in the shed you can have if and when it lets go, also got most of the other engine bits lying up in the rafters.

 

thans GB - I'll let you know when it dies!

[RobT]

134.9 for unleaded at my local Esso. I can't be arsed going to Sainsburys anymore for the sake of 131.9 as there's always a massive queue and it's not worth the stress.

 

If you're ever near junction 10 on the M5 and need to fill up, pop off to the outskirts of Cheltenham and fill up there rather than the services. All the garages have a bit of a price war going on.

[M'coli]

The BP at Wetherby Services is usually 10p/litre more than the Esso or Total in the centre of town and the Morrison's in Boroughbridge. Experience with the campervan however has taught me that supermarket diesel is a false economy - 24mpg on supermarket diesel, 27 on proprietary stuff so worth the extra money...

[OwdChina]

Fuel prices over here in Mass vary like crazy. The pumps i use its $3.32 per gallon for the cheap stuff & around $3.70 for the good stuff, not sure about derv prices......never needed to look. A short distance away though the prices go up by as much as 35cents a gal. Anyhoos this works out about 54pence a litre for the cheap stuff........which is a good thing because the truck (1998 Dodge ram 1500 4x4) only does 11mpg (American gallon) on a good day.

[scooters]

Fuel prices over here in Mass vary like crazy. The pumps i use its $3.32 per gallon for the cheap stuff & around $3.70 for the good stuff, not sure about derv prices......never needed to look. A short distance away though the prices go up by as much as 35cents a gal. Anyhoos this works out about 54pence a litre for the cheap stuff........which is a good thing because the truck (1998 Dodge ram 1500 4x4) only does 11mpg (American gallon) on a good day.

 

wasn't all that long ago that that was the price over here in Blighty, I remember about ten years ago telling my wife that my Brother in Law's 323i cabriolet cost about £60 in petrol to drive to Edinburgh from London and both of us thinking that was extortionate!!! -

[tonedepear]

The BP at Wetherby Services is usually 10p/litre more than the Esso or Total in the centre of town and the Morrison's in Boroughbridge.

 

Weirdly, if you carry on up the A1 to that shell garage on the A1 500yds before Scotch corner services, it's usually 2p cheaper than supermarket fuel in Durham or Sheffield. trouble is in my experience it's always so rammed that it's rarely possible to safely pull in. I've seen them queuing from the pumps onto the actual carriageway of the A1.

 

Morrisons in Boroughbridge is one of my fave Sheffield-Durham pitstops though. Specially if I have time for a big breakfast.

[OwdChina]

Fuel prices over here in Mass vary like crazy. The pumps i use its $3.32 per gallon for the cheap stuff & around $3.70 for the good stuff, not sure about derv prices......never needed to look. A short distance away though the prices go up by as much as 35cents a gal. Anyhoos this works out about 54pence a litre for the cheap stuff........which is a good thing because the truck (1998 Dodge ram 1500 4x4) only does 11mpg (American gallon) on a good day.

 

wasn't all that long ago that that was the price over here in Blighty, I remember about ten years ago telling my wife that my Brother in Law's 323i cabriolet cost about £60 in petrol to drive to Edinburgh from London and both of us thinking that was extortionate!!! -

 

To be honest it's a strange thing but when the UK switched from galls to litres my mind seems to be a tad cloudy. Reflecting on it i believe the govt had just found one of the first ways of quietly raising taxes and general fuel prices in such a manner that very few people actually twigged to what was happening. I remember that i was actually driving at that time, but i'm buggered if i can remember exactly when it was.

[scooters]

The BP at Wetherby Services is usually 10p/litre more than the Esso or Total in the centre of town and the Morrison's in Boroughbridge.

 

Weirdly, if you carry on up the A1 to that shell garage on the A1 500yds before Scotch corner services, it's usually 2p cheaper than supermarket fuel in Durham or Sheffield. trouble is in my experience it's always so rammed that it's rarely possible to safely pull in. I've seen them queuing from the pumps onto the actual carriageway of the A1.

 

Morrisons in Boroughbridge is one of my fave Sheffield-Durham pitstops though. Specially if I have time for a big breakfast.

 

 

Morrisons brekkie is top scoff - the Berwick one is used by family Scooters - the wee lass has coeliacs and they cater pretty well for her

 

Another top North East brekkie place is the garage next to Newcastle Airport - KWALITY bacon and SOSAGE butties (sometimes even in a stottie cake) The Hot Stottie Shop in Spittal Tounges, Newcastle used to do a mixed grill stottie about the sive of a dinner plate- bacon, sausage, egg, black pudding, shrooms, beans or tomatoes - cheap as well. Not sure if they are there any more it has been a few years.

 

We used our pikey voucher in the Tescos Durham on Monday - I think it gave us 5p off a lt - not to be sniffed at. Fuel quality wise I don't notice a hell of a lot of difference driving the scoob - BX doesn't seem to like Sainsburys pov blend and the Red Bastard will run on anything

 

Oh - speaking of which the Esso garage at Canonmills in Edinburgh is usually cheaper than the supermarkts and GR9 EZZO GAS N ALL

 

#meowdchina - I had a BX 19 TZD at the time so never used to look at the cost of diesel - I used to be able to fill up , leave work in Edinburgh at 5.00pm on a Friday drive to see the Mrs in London and then halfway back up again on 1 tank - at 80mph...nothing to crow about vs a modern diesel but this was 12 years ago

[wuvvum]

BP are almost invariably rip-off merchants. I avoid them like the plague unless the alternative is a 25-mile walk up the hard shoulder with a fuel can.

 

I am half considering trying the Rover of Doom on veg oil, but I'm not sure if it would adversely affect the power - which, given that that car's entire reason for existing is its ability to chew up and spit out Audi A4 / Passat TDi drivers, would be a bit of a bugger. Mind you, if the trip meter is to be believed, it's averaging 49mpg at the moment, so it's not stupidly expensive to run even on dino diesel.