check petrol prices before you buy!

surfsister

This has been on before but just used it myself anf thought some newbise might like it.

www.petrolprices.com

It gives the cheapest prices of diesel/petrol erc in your area and is fairly accurate.

Also spend £50 ate tesco get 5p per litre off petrol

mrtg0525

Indeed the site you mention is very useful, especially if you sign up for their email alerts.

One thing to keep in mind though is that petrol prices vary a lot by area and if you're making a regular journey (for example, I commute to London by motorbike every day), it does pay to keep an eye open for the petrol prices along your journey. For me, even the cheaper stations around here are regularly beaten by about 2p/l by several stations along the way so I hardly ever fill up down here in Ashford anymore.

Hillfly

I leave near Ashford too and drive to Croydon daily. Where do you find cheapest as a matter of interest?

mhoc

Sorry about the title, not sure where that came from!


Yes, I have this email update every week and it can give you an update on two postcodes so I have mine and my Dads. It will only check a 5 mile radius around you, really could do with a 20 miles radius and three postcodes.

Petrol around here is very overpriced 97 and 96, I've seen it that price in little petrol stations in the wilds of Wales. This is crewe and Nantwich. We fill up in either Stafford or Stone which is around 93 or 94 or at Stoke/Hanley/Longton which are 94 so we can reguarly save 3p a litr. Well worth going slightly out of area for the 3 or 4 tankfulls we need a month. Both of us filled up last week and saved nearly £3.

I tend to fill up at a Shell garage when I can (93p this week in Stafford) because I have a shell drivers card which gives me a point per litre that I fill up (so I always aim for full litres) I get a monthly statement and when I have enough points I get a fuel voucher

Mary

surfsister

How can you get a shell drivers card? is it for buisnesses only? thanks

mrtg0525

Hillfly wrote: »

I leave near Ashford too and drive to Croydon daily. Where do you find cheapest as a matter of interest?

It'll be a bit out of your way unfortunately but the two Shell stations on the A229 between the M20 and the M2 have unleaded @ 94.9, plus if you follow the A20 into London there are two other Shell stations that are also @94.9, plus the Sainsburys in Greenwich on/near the A2 has petrol @93.9. I'm passing all this on my normal commute so it's quite useful that way but probably useless for you...

mhoc

surfsister wrote: »

How can you get a shell drivers card? is it for buisnesses only? thanks

All the details are on this link, but I think you can get a card straight from the garage. No its for ordinary mortals. I first heard of this on MSE a long while ago.

https://www.shellsmart.com/smart/index.html?site=en-en

Also worth having a Morrisons black petrol card which you can pick up instore incase you occassionaly fill up at Morrisons. Again you accumalate points and eventually you get a £5 Morrisons voucher to be spent instore. Before petrol prices went silly I often filled up at Morrisons and got two or three of these a year . I hung onto until there was something we needed, one year I got some beautiful glasses for Christmas and another I had enough vouchers for a high pressure spray!
Mary