Filling the car up.........

steve700

When you get paid, do you fill the car up straight away, put £10ish when ever you get low or put about half a tank in at a time?

They all have downsides:

Fill it up straight away and you are effectively using more fuel as you are taking it everywhere with you - a strange mate pointed that out to me......

£10ish doesn't go far at all, and you are using fuel to get to the Petrol Station each time

What if you get halfway thro' the month and have no money to put 1/2 a tank in again......

Just something I was pondering today at work............:o

yellowmonkey

Always fill it up. Mind you that is because my fuel gauge is busted and i know how many miles i get to a full tank:rotfl: . Not a lot as i have a Volvo estate :eek:

ym

sweetpeas_2

we tend to put 5/10 quid in each time which im sure costs more in the end, as were constantly running on fumes which apparently uses more petrol still.

themaccas

We fill up the family car at the beginning of the month, it lasts around 2 weeks if we're lucky (£60). My car I fill up at least once a week I drive 240 miles to and from work a week and I have a small petrol tank in my car. I seem to live a t the petrol station!!!!

rog2

I don't have a car at the moment (long story) and rely upon my wife's car. When it comes to filling the tank we both use different strategies:

With my car, I would keep the tank full, and would try to refill as soon as the guage approached the half-full point. My 'logic' was simple - in the case of an emergency we would always have a reasonably full tank of fuel and could get to virtually anywhere in the UK at a moment's notice.

My wife, on the other hand, will put £10 - £15 worth of fuel in the tank. She uses the car every day, and is, also, on call when not working. She, usually, sends me to get petrol when the warning light is on, as she doesn't want to risk it if it runs out.

I suspect that the most sensible strategy is somewhere between the two. :beer:

CharliesAngel

a tenner a time cos it lasts me a week... and I get paid weekly lol

Cazzdevil

I prefer filling it up cos running on a low tank can apparently ruin the catalytic convertor (may be a vicious rumour however...).

I like to fill it up when I get the chance cos then I don't have to worry about petrol money for a couple of weeks. Plus the car seems to run more economically when it's at least half full.

Debt_Free_Chick

steve700 wrote: »

Fill it up straight away and you are effectively using more fuel as you are taking it everywhere with you - a strange mate pointed that out to me......

Nope ... don't understand that one.

I treat it as if it were Council Tax or any other necessary bill - just pay it at the beginning or end of the month (whenever your budget begins). Then it's done with - and you can't be tempted to spend the money on anything else :eek:

rayday2

At the moment we are filling up weekly as it is a hire car and could go back at short notice.

Normally we fill it up when it is nearly empty, we have a separate account for fuel so when we are paid has no bearing for us.

Yorkielass

When we lived in the city, walked to work and didn't use the car much we used to let it get to almost empty and then fill up completely.

Now we live in a town with only 2 very expensive petrol stations (amazingly no supermarket petrol stations here) and have a 30 mile round trip to work (OH and I work at the same place) so we tend to fill up when we go to the supermarket and we're less than half full. Sometimes if we've been somewhere at the weekend that's every week, other times we can do every other week and we always fill it up.

I've worked out we now spend about £120 a month on petrol - a lot in some people's eyes I know - but as we both work at the same place it's much cheaper for us to drive and if there's no petrol in the car can't get to work - no work - no money so petrol is a big priority to us.

Cazzdevil

Ooh ooh, AND... It's better to fill up at the cheapest garage you can find (look on www.petrolprices.com for your cheapest local garage), cos that way you're getting more petrol for your money. Often when my car's running out I have to go to any old garage and it's not always the cheapest.