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Tank Half Full

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  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    If you fill the tank and run it until empty you have, on average, half a tank of fuel on board.

    If you half fill it and run until empty you have, on average, a quarter tank of fuel.

    So the weight saving is a quarter of a tank. say 15 litres or 11 kg.
  • scbk
    scbk Posts: 1,216 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I run as far down as I can (whilst still being able to get to a supermarket for diesel). Don't see the point in "topping up" with £10 here £20 there, some people must spend more time in filling stations than driving! Also there's all the fuel burnt as you take a detour to the station then waiting in a que
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