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If we are on fumes it costs £60 to fill up our Grand Cmaxerati.
The person before me at the pump had paid £92 for their petrol.
I got to wonder what sort of vehicle has a tank that takes £92 and what the is the most you can fit in a car/ van at a filling station.
Anyone done the Ton filling up?
On fumes around £67, diesel Volkswagen Touran.
£75 or so in petrol mondeo.
About £50 on fumes.
I got to wonder what sort of vehicle has a tank that takes £92
What were they driving?
A big SUV will have a huge tank.
Nothing
Use my skateboard or pogo stick EVERYWHERE
In before a Tesla bore
About £60 of petrol for the E200. 50l tank.
Previously, around £90 of diseasel on the old SMax. 70l tank.
Get very close to the £99 quid limit on a very empty Alhambra
Vans are usually >£100 from empty, need/want for 600+ mile range and rubbish mpg means they need it.
My Trafic takes nearly £100 worth of diesel to fill from the red light. 😭
At Motorway services or using some special snake oil diesel I could break the £90 barrier on mine.
It’s not an especially thirsty car, averages 50mpg on a decent run, it’s just got a big tank, so a 700+ mile range.
90 litre tank in my Trafic. I'll let you do the maths 😊
Obviously it depends, went into peas pottage services the other day & it was £1.50 😯 normally around £1.30 per l
My BMW takes a max of £45, last approx 400 miles
Get very close to the £99 quid limit on a very empty Alhambra
They have got MASSIVE tanks haven’t they.
€80 worth of 98 octane, bit cheaper for 95 if that's all that's available (works but not the preferred grade).
That's the theoretical amount. I've put in €70+ a few times at the same price with the gauge toggling between 20 and 10 km left. Current prices are also 40¢ /litre off the peak too.
Our X Trail is near the £100 mark if on fumes.
My mate had a 90's 540 BMW tourer for a while. That would eat £100 at the petrol station and then it'd need a refill on the way back from wherever it had taken you!
My Golf takes just over £50 usually and last 2-3 weeks if I'm lucky/not using it too heavily.
I got to wonder what sort of vehicle has a tank that takes £92 and what the is the most you can fit in a car/ van at a filling station.
Thats just what I spend filling a Mondeo
post bus takes about 140 quid of diesel from empty.
it does north of 600 miles off that so rarely gets filled up due to the fact i rarely am doing 600 miles.....
The VW T5 regularly swallows over £100. Worst I had was a Land Rover Discovery TD5 the last time Deisel got up to £1.40 back around 2012. I got over £110 in that thing. Mind you my mate has long range tanks in his Defender, and while in Italy we got over 200 euros in that and still had to fill it again later the same day (towing a trailer back to the UK in one hit)
My Dispatch has an 80L tank so regularly does over £100 and about a 650 mile range
Ditto for our VW T5 - an 80-litre tank means fills ups are close to £100, although it then goes on for ages.
£100 more or less but I get ~700 to the tank. Computer tells me 800 sometimes but it's lying.
Yep, I remember the Discovery costing over a ton fumes to filler cap, especially when diesel was over 135p a litre. It had an impressive range though, especially at legal motorway speeds, useful for camping trips to France.
HiLux costs about 70 quid to fill from the time the fuel light comes on.
Just under £80 for the Saab, around £45 for the Nissan
Obviously it depends, went into peas pottage services the other day & it was £1.50 😯 normally around £1.30 per l
Is it just me or have motorway services filling stations got even more relatively expensive?
I'm sure they used to only charge a few p/l more than off the motorway, but now they seem to be 20p/l more at least. Does this mean people have got more lazy? You'd think with mpgs in the 50s being nothing special and most cars having at least 500 miles range there'd be no need for them. Maybe that's the reason - they're only there for the very desperate/lazy.
my old porsche had a 80l tank, you could get a bit more than that in if it was empty, so I had a couple of fill ups that topped £100
It does seem bonkers when you step back and think about it.
Bike parts; I'd spend weeks contemplating spending £100 on a waterproof top. Yet setting fire to £100 of hydrocarbons wouldn't have raised an eyelid.
Since changing my work to something more local with less traveling I've suddenly got money in the bank at the end of the month! Not to mention the environmental impact of burning £100 of fuel!
I hit the £99 max spend cut off on my Peugeot Expert once at a pay-at-pump petrol station.
Coppice must drive his like he stole it, because that'd get about 850 miles worth. Current Transit Connect is about £70
£70 from the light coming on for my doblo luckly only have to do that every 3 or 4 weeks
I got to wonder what sort of vehicle has a tank that takes £92
the one you were looking at 🙂
My little Panda 4x4 dependant on fuel prices never takes more than £38. It doesn’t need filling up very regularly though as I only get about 35mpg out of it.
Pffft.
About 4 minutes in. 85 gallon fuel tank...
90L tank in my car.
If I take the boat to fill it up for the summer, and fill the car at the same time, then I'm looking at a total of 450L!!
If there's a silver lining it's the a full tank in the boat usually lasts the summer and if I fill the car (very rare) it's showing a range of nearly 800 miles which is not bad for a big car.
I never let my van go below halfway. Too scary to do a full fill 😳
T5 close to £100 of diesel and 450ish Miles.
330D about £70 diesel and 450ish to 500 miles.
Polo GTI about £50 petrol and 320ish.
Just from vague memory, I don’t pay that much attention tbh.
The Polo is going soon though and being replaced by an i3 which I won’t have to put fuel in and will become the main commuter vehicle for us.
Almost 100-litre tank in the old Range Rover. So around £130 to brim it. I assume the weight of the fuel is less of a factor when the car itself is so heavy, so they stick a large tank in.
80 odd quid in a Skoda Superb diesel.
If I drive sensibly it will do 750 miles between full ups though. Thankfully it’s only once or twice a month I have to do it!
My Focus ST170 can nudge £60 if using 98/99 RON, my wife's Discovery Sport maxes out around £55. Surprisingly small tank on the Land Rover.
When fuel cost a bit more the old Kuga could get up to about £75.
T5 close to £100 of diesel and 450ish Miles.
Bloody hell, that's about 26.5mpg! That's shocking.
Amazing to think vehicles designed for different purposes have different sized fuel tanks.
The old RX7 was very close to £90 to top up from fumes and that was 6 years ago. I could fill it up and do a steady 70-ish mph down the A1 from Edinburgh and it would have the fuel light on again as I was passing Doncaster, 230 miles away. Ludicrous fuel consumption.
Couple of quid for a flapjack and coffee and then I cycle real fast. Dunno the conversion of flapjack grams to gallons to give you my MPG, sorry.
"Coppice must drive his like he stole it, because that’d get about 850 miles worth. Current Transit Connect is about £70"
I have a full length roof rack fitted which doesn't help. Its also either mainly short cold commutes or trotting around Europe with a kayak and bikes on the roof.
about £75 for a full tank in my Golf
Amazing to think vehicles designed for different purposes have different sized fuel tanks.
This is so important when you have to consider any “how much” game.
Hybrid takes £32 from red light just come on to full.
Roadster takes £68 from red light to full.
I know this as I filled both up yesterday.
The hybrid does more mpg, and I get about 90 more miles out of the hybrid compared to the roadster.
My hybrid has a tiny tank, and rightly too. I can get about 400 miles per tank, the roadster about 310-330.
Petrol down this way costs anywhere from £1.30 per litre to £1.22 depending where you go to full up.
I think the big suv thing I was given as a hire car took over £100 to fill
I assume the weight of the fuel is less of a factor when the car itself is so heavy, so they stick a large tank in.
Maybe, but I can definitely tell the difference in fuel consumption, in my pretty heavy SUV, when doing a regular 110 mile journey with just me in and when there are 4 of us (approx 2mpg).
Our boat definitely performs better with 100L of fuel in than when it's carrying 350L - but the cost of refueling on the water is much more than the initial extra fuel consumption when the boat has been filled to the brim at Costco.
It would cost me a fortune if I filled up with petrol. Diesel cars really don't like that.
I will add...
I filled up next to a Porsche Cayenne a few months ago... I was in my hybrid at the time.
Go to pay, £30 Sir... many thanks.
Porsche owner in next booth, £155 Sir... “that’s a lot”, “depends on what vehicle you drive Sir, I’m sure you enjoy yours” He huffed “I better enjoy it then”
I just don’t get that mentality.
Its not like you walk blindly into vehicle ownership is it, surely at a base level you have to ask “how much does it cost to run/fill up”
🤷♂️🤪
Managed a £63 fill up in the Stepwagon when it had gone below empty on the gauge.
eGolf - about £1.60 on cheap overnight electricity to go 120 miles. Or about a fiver on a rapid charger for the same.
Vw Tiguan @ £90 for 60 litres of v power diesel from empty
Was thinking bus fares are expensive. My weekly ticket on the bus is £12:80. I thought bloody hell that will soon mount up. Forgot that I hadn’t filled my T6 for a while, it’s not turned a wheel since 7th December. A fill of that covers about 7 weeks of bus passes.
I'm sure I've seen mid to high £70s when the light has been on my 3 series (diesel).
Porsche owner in next booth, £155 Sir…
Yes it is, but the only Cayenne that will take that much is the Turbo (and even then, that's at >£1.25/L) .... and if you can afford the car then you really should be able to afford the fuel.
But some people don't look that far ahead!
Thats just what I spend filling a Mondeo
Really? I think the largest tank they've ever fitted to a Mondeo was 60ltrs, even if you drove until it stopped and you coasted to the pump (most car will have between 5 and 10 litres left when they show empty - although NOT Toyota Yaris which will stop the moment the egg shows empty) you'd be paying more than £1.50 a litre to get £92's worth in.
T5 - £90-£100 or so from fuel light to full for about 515-530 miles.
Porsche owner in next booth, £155 Sir…
Yes it is, but the only Cayenne that will take that much is the Turbo (and even then, that’s at >£1.25/L) …. and if you can afford the car then you really should be able to afford the fuel.
But some people don’t look that far ahead!
Exactly my point. I care less about what others drive, drive what you like and enjoy it. Don’t bemoan the fact it costs £155 to fill up.
£400 in fuel a month isn’t uncommon amongst my peers, they don’t seem to moan.
The Volvo V50 was about £50 from the warning light. 350ish miles
the BMW 318i is just over £60 from the warning light. Not sure on MPG yet as only refilled after towing but seems to get 26mpg when towing and 35ish when knocking around
had a BMW M2 last week as a hire car for a ski trip. We did about 260 miles (420km) from Grenoble airport up to Sainte Foay andback, used maybe a third of a tank and cost about €30 to refill
Current car up to £60 if I run it until it insists it has 0 miles left for about 20 miles. It'll do 4-500 miles on a fill, more if you were really gentle/driving on flatter roads (the motorways I regularly go on are pretty hilly)
The last car would take about £80-90 and do about 300-350 miles. I think I once got 400 mile by driving extremely gently, that equated to about 30mpg.
It's always worth it, financially at least. To be honest I worry more about the environmental implications than the financial ones. I don't ever party fill it as I don't particularly like going to petrol stations and I reckon any increased fuel consumption from the extra weight is offset by the reduced fuel consumption/wear from less stopping, cooling, and restarting.
Its not like you walk blindly into vehicle ownership is it, surely at a base level you have to ask “how much does it cost to run/fill up”
I was quite surprised that a 2013 van is substantially less fuel efficient in the real world than a 2000 van, especially as on paper it's supposed to be lighter, have less co2/km and have more mpg.
About £80 quid. Diesel VW Passat Bluemotion. Does getting on for 800 miles so better than a T5!
I think the big suv thing I was given as a hire car took over £100 to fill
I had an X5 hire car. Drove from the midlands to Fort William. Brimmed it, carried on further...and further....and further into Scotland.
Drove all the way back without refuelling and I'm sure the counter went past £100 when we filled back up a few miles from home.
just shy of £150 worth of diesel, that is into a Fire engine though and I think it has a big tank.
Maybe, but I can definitely tell the difference in fuel consumption, in my pretty heavy SUV, when doing a regular 110 mile journey with just me in and when there are 4 of us (approx 2mpg).
Agreed. I keep half a tank in it. Don't need the extra 300-odd mile range so no point carrying the diesel around with me for no reason.
Its not like you walk blindly into vehicle ownership is it, surely at a base level you have to ask “how much does it cost to run/fill up”
Maybe he was just commenting on that garage's prices rather than how much his car cost to run? Watch the pennies and all that.
There's two garages close together I use. I've now got wise to one of them - when their price is a bit more than the others, their big price signs miraculously 'stop working'. They caught me yesterday with that trick.
Leigh Delamere services yesterday morning was 150.9 for petrol, 154.9 for diesel and 164.9 for Ultimate diesel. My T5 would take well over £100 to fill on the standard diesel there. Thankfully I am not as unprepared as my mate who was driving yesterday and make sure I have fuel to not need to have my pants pulled down on the motorway.
80 litre tank, only drinks super unleaded. I rarely fill it from totally empty as the fuel guage is wildly innacurate. Last time I brimmed it I'd got 230 miles from £90 worth.
I don't commute in it!
P-Jay
Member
Really?
It would appear not! And goes to show how much attention I bother to give fueling up. The main thing I do notice is that its a lot more than the tiddly tank my wife's Octavia (which doesn't seem to be anywhere near the quoted 50l)
I worked in a petrol station on weekends back when I was a student. One of our regular customers had a petrol Range Rover and a huge speedboat. He filled up the Rangie and the boat tanks on his way out for a fishing trip. I don't recall the actual amount, but it was the by far the biggest petrol sale I ever did. I just remember thinking that I could live for a month on his petrol bill.
I will add…
I filled up next to a Porsche Cayenne a few months ago… I was in my hybrid at the time.
Go to pay, £30 Sir… many thanks.Porsche owner in next booth, £155 Sir… “that’s a lot”, “depends on what vehicle you drive Sir, I’m sure you enjoy yours” He huffed “I better enjoy it then”
I just don’t get that mentality.
Its not like you walk blindly into vehicle ownership is it, surely at a base level you have to ask “how much does it cost to run/fill up”
Cayenne's start at £60k, but realistically most won't be less than £80k and once you start getting into Turbos / Hybrids or both you'd over £100k. PCP deals on new ones start at £800 a month, but again realistically most will be into 4 figures. VED is also £60 a month.
Porsche are generally 'good' for fuel economy, and emissions, 'good' in this case being compared to stuff like Ferraris at the top end and M-series / RS / AMG type stuff, but obviously SUVs are generally terrible for that sort of thing so the loud shouty ones are 20mpg sort of things but the Hybrids supposedly are in the 70s (they've just scraped diesel).
So Porsche man is spending £1000 a month to drive the thing. At an average 1000 miles a month he's spending about £240 a month in fuel, compared to someone driving a normal car it's costing him an extra £90, given his 'means' he probably doesn't care too much.
A lot of people who drive those sorts of things are dicks, and they don't care about fuel cost, just range and it's a bit of a **** badge of honour to humblemoan about how long it takes to fill up, or that they have to go in because it's always over £99
My Smax is 90 odd quid for a full tank. Does about 600 mile sometimes more on a trip to the Alps.
hols2
Member
I worked in a petrol station on weekends back when I was a student. One of our regular customers had a petrol Range Rover and a huge speedboat. He filled up the Rangie and the boat tanks on his way out for a fishing trip. I don’t recall the actual amount, but it was the by far the biggest petrol sale I ever did. I just remember thinking that I could live for a month on his petrol bill.
Boats just shouldn't be included here, even reasonably small ones make your eyes pop!
£35 - £40 in the C1 depending on if I fill at the warning, or fumes. Get around 420 miles on that.
£65 to fill the Scenic, get about 350 miles from that 🙁
How much to fill up with petrol?
Quite expensive as a full tank would cost me around £90. Then there's the cost of having it all pumped out again as my van is a diesel.
£55 in the Forester. Small tank for such a thirsty car!
Quite expensive as a full tank would cost me around £90. Then there’s the cost of having it all pumped out again as my van is a diesel
Just like Onzadog's diesel then 😉
My Passat takes £468.27 to fill (seriously, no-one is really reading all of these, are they?!)
The KTM takes £16 to fill up and the fuel light is back on at 90-100 miles.
seriously, no-one is really reading all of these, are they?!
Of course we are reading them... It's kinda interesting.
Is the decimal point in your total in the rong place?
T5 close to £100 of diesel and 450ish Miles.
As above, bloody hell, really? Mine is about £100 from fumes to brim, and about 650 miles from brim to fumes. 1.9 T28, 54 Plate, 150k miles FWIW
Of course we are reading them… It’s kinda interesting.
Is the decimal point in your total in the wrong place?
Yeah me too, but I'm THAT nerdy and also have noticed a strange phenomenon (not really shown here) that people with thirsty cars that cost a lot in fuel begin to think they cost a lot to fill up, they usually don't, they just fill them up more often. I knew a Guy years ago with a V12 XJS who'd convinced himself it cost £200 to fill it up (and that it had 2 fuel tanks) but in reality, even with it's massive 90l tank, it would have cost about £50 back then.