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louietudor

GemmaJaye wrote: »

@ Shinydoc

You buy the card and order the vouchers through the discount portal, they arrive 3 days later by post (no extra cost), you can use them on groceries or petrol at ASDA & Sainsbury's.

It takes a couple of minutes to order the vouchers online, you just add the quantity you want into your shopping basket, check out and they arrive.

You buy them at a discounted rate of 5%

so you buy £100 voucher for £95 ?? is that right ??

GemmaJaye

@ louietudor

Yes, that's right. For ASDA & Sainbury's you pay £95.

With the Waitrose & John Lewis vouchers you get an 8% discount, so buy £100 and pay £92.

I tend to order my vouchers at the start of every month so that I have enough to cover food, baby essentials and petrol. As my partner travels to work every day by car, they come in very handy.

Just on my groceries alone, we will save £480 a year, with petrol on top another £180 a year.

Carlsberg

Petrol prices hitting an all time high.

Mr T is giving a 5p off per litre voucher if you spend over £50.

Im going tonight to stock up on cleaning stuff along with my weekly shop as I need to fill up.

Hope this helps a few pockets.

marich

I was intrigued to see it claimed in the MSE tips for cheaper fuel that petrol is measured by volume , and that filling at night when it's cool would get you a bit extra .
The measuring chamber would be metal and thus would shrink when colder . Petrol is a liquid and as such would not shrink appreciably compared to the measuring chamber .
So does this not point to topping up in the heat of day when the measuring chamber is larger ?

theowl_2

Article I read today in the Guardian. Pretty much reinforcing what Martin has already said, but more insight about how to put it into practice!

The craze that made even Clarkson join the slow lane

• Patrick Barkham
• The Guardian,
• Thursday July 3, 2008
• Article history

I can sense the motorists behind me fuming as I coax my car from 0-60 in approximately 5,000 seconds. But I don't care: I am now a hypermiler.
Hypermiling, the art of driving your car so it delivers better fuel economy than the manufacturer's official figures, began in the US as a wacky journey taken by obsessives such as Wayne Gerdes, who coined the phrase and has averaged more than 180mpg in a hybrid Honda Insight.
Now it is going mainstream in the UK as soaring fuel prices encourage lorries to tootle along at 40mph and Jeremy Clarkson near-sacrilegiously preaches fuel-efficient driving and demonstrates the gas-guzzling properties of supercars on Top Gear (the car that went the furthest on one gallon managed just five miles).
The hypermiler's first principles are to drive more slowly, avoid fierce acceleration and reduce braking. Then there are no-nos (no unnecessary luggage, no air-con and no open windows) and mechanical tips (use the correct tyre pressure and change your air filter annually).
Driving slowly isn't dull. You must plan ahead and maintain momentum, which can mean cornering more quickly, taking roundabouts at a decent speed or timing your arrival at traffic lights for when they turn green.
Some extreme hypermiling tactics are dangerous and not advisable, including "drafting" - suicidally tailgating trucks to stay in their slipstream - and "ridge-riding", which is driving with your passenger-side wheels on the white line at the road's edge to avoid fuel-sapping grooves that vehicle tyres wear on to our roads.
I'm only a beginner. I've just clocked 52.56mpg in my old diesel Peugeot after 800 miles of mixed urban/motorway driving, beating its official figures by 2.56mpg. But it's addictive and you soon notice other benefits: journeys are almost as quick (Clarkson took six minutes longer to "eco-drive" 60 miles), you catch up with speedsters at the next traffic queue and arrive at your destination feeling positively Zen.
· For more on eco-driving, visit blogs.guardian.co.uk/ethicalliving

hollyolly397

Please try this. Read Martin's hints on saving money on petrol,I tried all the things he said and it worked. :j

tomstickland

Apart from the one about "buy petrol when it's colder because it's more dense".

teedubbs_2

I've just read this on msn money, does anyone know if its true or just an urban myth?
10. Don't fill-up on a Friday
It's a little-known fact that petrol retailers add a penny or two to the price of petrol and diesel on Fridays, when it's busiest at the pumps with everyone filling up for the weekend. And with prices already at an all-time high, you don't want to pay a penny more than you need to. Stay one step ahead and buy your fuel the day before.

AdrianHi

teedubbs wrote: »

I've just read this on msn money, does anyone know if its true or just an urban myth?
10. Don't fill-up on a Friday
It's a little-known fact that petrol retailers add a penny or two to the price of petrol and diesel on Fridays, when it's busiest at the pumps with everyone filling up for the weekend. And with prices already at an all-time high, you don't want to pay a penny more than you need to. Stay one step ahead and buy your fuel the day before.

Just checking 1 months worth of daily emails from petrolprices.com and I find prices rising so fast they don't wait until Friday to do it with prices going up twice in a week at times :eek:

Joe65_2

DI_Rebus wrote: »

In the main article about cutting petrol costs, it states,
"don't keep going after the petrol nozzle 'clunks', because you're overfilling."

But when I 'overfill', I get another 2 litres in the tank, so what's the reason for not overfilling?

Because it tends to spill while you're driving. It's amazing the number of leaky fuel caps there are.
Haven't you noticed a smear below your filler ?
It 's more noticeable with diesel 'though.