Just filled up - 55 litres diesel £75 - !!!!!!

Gloomendoom

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

On topic briming the tank isn't the best idea really, you could quite easily lose 1/2 a ltr to spilleage and create hazards at the same time. Plus the extra weight will affect fuel consumpsion to some extent. At lest our local coop was giving 5p off per litre with a £40 spend when I called in last week, did actually ignore my own advice and 3/4 fill the tank, it's never had a drink like that for years;)

Steady! A recent thread highlighting that same issue got deleted.

jeferey

smjxm09 wrote: »

I would bet good money that you will get nowhere near those figures. I can't even achieve the urban figure for my car.

I get 15% above the manufacturer's combined figure in my motor - hypermiling is the answer

cyclonebri1

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Steady! A recent thread highlighting that same issue got deleted.

So did the one about driving to fat, , but I did expect that one


Big bro's never far away.

greenman7

I have brimmed up my Citroen C3 1.4 diesel for the last 2.5 years, without doing that I would not know that I was averaging 64.3 mpg.
I fiond it very hard to improve mpg as I do a lot of short journeys. I will be interested to see what the Skoda does.

Inactive

wobbley wrote: »

We've already told the dealer that if we don't, the car will be going back!

Good luck with that, I cannot really see any dealer taking a car back because it doesn't achieve it's rated figures.

bigjl

smjxm09 wrote: »

Always amazes me how some parents always drive their kids to school when it would be quicker to walk. They would still drive if fuel was £5 a litre as the thought of walking anywhere horrifies them :mad:

What EXACTLY gives you the right to comment on how I live my life or if I drive my kids to school or not, you are showing your total ignorance and stupidity with such a generalised statement.

You have NO knowledge of how far my childrens schools are, none atall.

Just for your information my daughters school is 14 miles from my house with no direct link using public transport, no buses are provided by the local authority.

My sons school is 10 miles from my daughters school and again there is no public transport link between my house and his school.

We didn't all get given a council house and a guaranteed school place, mainly due to people from outside the area lying to get their kids into the schools nearby.


We don't all live in a city where the schools are half a mile away.


I strongly suggest you wind your neck in, you are both ignorant and uninformed.


Though you are obviously correct I should obviously allow my children to walk for 3 hours every evening and morning, after all the M25 is such a nice road to walk along.



From your comments I can assume you eat lentils, think that Global Warming is actually happening rather than a convenient way to allow the government to increase the taxation of the working and middle classes, so enabling the government to have the funds to pay for the bloated welfare state which consists mainly of workshy imbeciles. How is life in leftyville?

davetrousers

bigjl wrote: »

What EXACTLY gives you the right to comment on how I live my life or if I drive my kids to school or not, you are showing your total ignorance and stupidity with such a generalised statement.

Why have you taken a general comment personally?

Inactive

davetrousers wrote: »

Why have you taken a general comment personally?

Obviously somebody touched a nerve..

bigjl

Mainly because he quoted my post, which was a general comment on the advantage to fuel consumption of a Prius when stuck in traffic during the school run, then infered that i was doing the school run because I couldn't be bothered to walk the half mile to my kids school.

He then ended with an angry symbol, if he didn't want his post to be taken personally then he could have made a general comment that he thought not using a car for the school run was a good way to save fuel, with the proviso that you would have to live within a reasonable walking distance of the school, such as those yummy mummies in Highgate and Hamstead that will happily drive a large petrol 4x4 1/2 a mile up the road and double park outside school and block the road.

I personally think it is unreasonable to expect a 10 year old to walk the 12 miles to his school alone and a 12 year old to walk 14 miles to school alone, the schools are 10 miles apart, anybody that thinks anybody would do a 36 mile school run before driving to work voluntarily needs there head examined.

iolanthe07

I know - God I wish I was back in the 70's

Actually petrol was more expensive pro rata then than it is now. In 1974 you could get three gallons for a pound. It is about £6 a gallon now, so the same three gallons would cost £18. I was earning around the average wage of about £1100 a year then; times that by 18 and you get £19800. The average wage now is something like £25,000. So petrol was more expensive then, and cars were not so fuel efficient.