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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.
There used to be one near me which pulled a similar trick. They'd have the prices on display and consistently be the cheapest in the area, then take them down and start charging motorway service station prices.
Oddly enough, they're no longer in business now.
My VW T6 takes about £90 to fill it, long trips on motorways will see 640 miles for that.
The wife's Evoke takes about £60 to fill and that'll do about 400miles on motorway trips, it uses almost as much AdBlue as fuel mind, utter turd of an engine if you ask me..
Usually around £112 in my diesel 2013 VW Touareg although it's been £120 when fuel prices have increased. I always fill up at Supermarkets using the basic fuel. The car usually reckons about 690 miles (I haven't checked if this is correct), it also reckons I average about 28mpg. I rarely do motorway miles but when I do the mpg is far greater.
My old car cost much less to fill up but as others have said, this doesn't make it better, it's just got a smaller tank. It got about 21.5 mpg (petrol).
Oh yeah, and an honorary mention to a petrol station I saw in Stockport once. I forget the exact prices now, but imagine today seeing "99p/litre" on the big LED fuel displays. I was like "stop the car, we're going there right now!!"
Then when you get close enough, you see the small print under the price... "milk."
85 to 90 quid from fumes for my rx8.
Gets me about 140 miles.
About £70 from empty in my diesel Vectra. That'll do nearly 700 miles on a tank if driven reasonably carefully though.
There was a massive queue at my local petrol station a while ago cos some guy has filled his Winnebago which was £300+ and unsurprisingly, the garage (and/or his credit card) weren't having any of it.
150l tank in my Prado. Last fuel cost $1.75/l. That’s why I walk to work 😂
Is the decimal point in your total in the wrong place?
No, it was a completely made up figure. I never fill my car completely, so I don't really know the interesting and exciting amount. What am I doing in this thread then? Well, it's more interesting than my work, you know.
Landrover is around the £100 mark,
Van that my wife daily drives & we use for MTB is about £110 to fill,
Seat Leon i daily is about £70/80 to fill
Race car thats used on the weekends has a 125 litre fuel tank & does 80 miles before having to fill it up again
T4, about £100 to fill it, driving like a granny with a 0.68 fifth gear instead of a 0.72 gets me about 8-900 to the tank. 2.5tdi for reference.
What am I doing in this thread then? Well, it’s more interesting than my work, you know.
Stay, we're all skiving off too.
Whats on your stereo/DAB radio though? Thats all we want to know..
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
Yeah, saw that too. I'm just under halfway between you 2 on a 2.5 T30. Low 30mpgs but lots of mixed/short drives. Mid 30s on longer runs sees up to 550 miles. Usually lower than that though.
Whats on your stereo/DAB radio though?
Funny that. If the DAB's on it's only ever Radio1 Xtra. All other stations annoy me for various reasons. I normally use an iPod in the car.. until recently! I've had the car 5 years and only just found out that the adapter in the glovebox takes a simple USB pen drive! Works nicely and displays song info on the dash. So until I get a bigger pen drive I've got one with clipping., Foals (early stuff, before they got the U2 bluster), Elucid, some Four Tet and a few other albums on it. 😀
The T5 has an 80l tank which means most fill ups are around the 100€ mark.
However, go to Italy or Switzerland and that can be nearer 130€ depending where you fill up.
Top tip.... Always fill up before the border! Or in Samnaun, tax free enclave in Switzerland near Austria/Italy/Swiss border...
Edit. Just looked at average prices for Europe. UK is right up there on price for diesel.
Avoid the Netherlands!
https://autotraveler.ru/en/spravka/fuel-price-in-europe.html#.XiXN31xw00M
Edit edit.. Have had 1350km from one tank,but that was bumbling along at 92kmh... Munich to Hamburg. 800km one way. We were being paid for the drive, not the fuel. It's a long way!
Tends to be around 1000km with mostly autobahn cruising.
Passat 2.0 diesel, 70 litres, so about £95 for a full tank. It'll do 800 miles of motorway cruise though.
Old mk2 CRV, about £70 from empty. It, however, will not do 800 miles of motorway cruise... half that at best.
Bloody hell, that’s about 26.5mpg! That’s shocking.
The couple of times I’ve worked it out brim to brim it’s been nearer 29 but that’s on a long motorway run, so running around town / mountains 27 is probably about right.
Yeah, saw that too. I’m just under halfway between you 2 on a 2.5 T30. Low 30mpgs but lots of mixed/short drives. Mid 30s on longer runs sees up to 550 miles. Usually lower than that though.
Mine’s the 2.5 too, but it’s auto which will make it worse than yours assuming it’s manual. It goes quick enough though and has some chunky tyres on.
85 litre tank in the X5, It reckons will do around 600 plus miles on that but it is well over £100 if filling from empty. On long runs down from the very north of Scotland to England have seen close to 700 out of a tank.
Have looked at electric cars recently as the need for towing has gone but it is the car used for family trips up north loaded with dogs/kids/bikes etc and is just so bloody good at that job.
£30 to fill the LPG tank at the cheap station fairly close by, or £35 at the one that's actually convenient. I did the numbers at one point but can't remember the actual real world mpg on gas, something like 21mpg in normal driving.
Car needs premium petrol when it's not on gas though so running out is pretty pricey.
T5 close to £100 of diesel and 450ish Miles.
Bloody hell, that’s about 26.5mpg! That’s shocking.
I drove the van from Stuttgart to Munich the other week and averaged 162kmh*... Display was showing an average for the trip (210km) of 15.7l/100.... That's 18mpg!
* it was night, the roads clear and I had filled up earlier in Luxembourg.
We specced a 120 litre diesel tank when we bought our ducato.... That's a big fill up.
However our coooper s mini does similar mpg, it's so annoying how often you have to fill it up. Big tank for the win!
80l tank on my van - it's averaging 42mpg though which is pretty good considering the amount of short journeys I do (interspersed with some longer ones). I always just brim it on payday regardless (1/2 tank ish usualy) as dropping £100+ on diesel in one go would depress me 😂
I've just mounted a solar panel to the roof and it's in the the process of being converted so it'll be interesting to see what effect that has on fuel consumption when it's fully Laden.
80 litre tank, only drinks super unleaded
Isn't it an old Porsche. What makes it need super? .
Northwinds needs premium because it's an import and is tuned on it
80 litre tank, only drinks super unleaded
Isn’t it an old Porsche. What makes it need super? .
Northwinds needs premium because it’s an import and is tuned on it
It's turbocharged and also tuned on it and a bit more powerful than it was in 1986.
I'll be running coil packs on it soon which may help with economy/emissions.
£70-80, deisel 2.0 Skoda Superb. That's an easy 600 miles though, on a motorway run I reckon I could get 800 miles on a tank.
My previous Subaru 3.0l AWD thing, over 300 miles was a good tank, and it was still £65-70 to fill 🙁
65 ltr tank on Merc; 85 ltr on Audi.
So, at current prices in Lincoln...Merc < £100; Audi > £100
I avoid filling up at motorway services.
Shocked by some of the mpg / range figures for VW T5 owners on here...!
Obviously depends on mix of roads and driving style, but I’d be cheesed off with <700 miles from a tank... and yes, £100 is about the cost for filling the van 🙁
Used to drive a Vauxhall Omega and BMW 750. Nearly and over £100 respectively even when juice was under a £1.
Audi A2 and Vx220 only have 40l tanks so have to be on fumes to get £50 in. A2 does 70mpg and the range in the Vx isn't an issue.
Shocked by some of the mpg / range figures for VW T5 owners on here…!
Obviously depends on mix of roads and driving style, but I’d be cheesed off with <700 miles from a tank… and yes, £100 is about the cost for filling the van 🙁
You either spent a lot more on yours and got a new efficient one or you’ve got a slow 1.9?
28 vs 35mpg for the 35k Miles we’ve done in the van had apparently cost £1400 extra. At the time we would have had to spend more than that extra to get something with the 2.0 engine. So it’s not all bad.
Just filled up with Diesel after 576 miles. Dash display was showing 15 miles to empty, tank took 48.5Ltr and was £61.53.
2014 Golf 2.0, Blue Motion thingy
Used to drive a Vauxhall Omega and BMW 750. Nearly and over £100 respectively even when juice was under a £1.
Sure? 100ltr tanks are really rare. Even those big old barges had 75ltr tanks at best and even that wouldn’t have been all usable.
£90 gets me 300 miles if I behave. Considerably worse if in traffic or driving enthusiastically.
Makes a lovely noise though!
I have a Volvo.
It laughs at £90 of petrol.
From empty, generally 8 pints of cider to fully brimmed. That's about £40. But only 40 miles on that.
Then i fall off.
Only time I get over a ton in my Vivaro is at the pumps.
I try not to fill from empty, it's too depressing.
Luckily don’t have a Car, but Motorbike takes £20 to fill up from fumes and does a massive 160 miles ☹️
Missus Vauxhall Mokka takes 50 quid and lasts about a week and half doing Blackburn to Todmorden and back.
Just filled up a Renault Scenic £70 at 120.7p litre
All those revelling in the "mine costs teeny x" price...
The price of Ionity charging for BEVs has just been put up 500%. Yep, thats now 70p a KWhr... so more expensive than to fill up a Rolls Royce Cullinan.
Told you the tide would turn, and those says it only costs £1.20 to charge my BEV over night will be in for a mighty shock. Purely due to market forces being applied means more EV charging companies will now think "well, if they can put up prices, then so should we" and running a BEV will become the same cost as petrol/diesel vehicles in one fail swoop.
And who are the major shareholders in Ionity?
BMW/VWGroup amongst other very large manufacturers...
The price of Ionity charging for BEVs has just been put up 500%. Yep, thats now 70p a KWhr… so more expensive than to fill up a Rolls Royce Cullinan.
So, that’s £56 to ‘fill’ a Tesla 3 and you’ll get about 250 miles at motorway speed? That’s V8 territory isn’t it!
Kia Rio takes about £42 of petrol and gets about 380 miles. Puggy Partner is a 55 litre tank (I think, might be 60), takes about £63-ish and returns just over 600 miles (that is with about 50 miles left in the tank - I don't think it is that accurate so rather than pick up any crap from the diesel, I fill it before it is running properly low. Puggy is now doing longer drives so I'm hoping for a bit better fuel economy and I'm hoping for closer to 650 miles from the tank.
My 51-plate 1.9TDi Octavia costs roughly £50-55 to fill, and I’ll get around 500 miles out of it, mostly just commuting to work and back, which is 155 miles a week.
I had an Insignia for nearly two months on loan, SRi diesel, 170bhp, I got nearly 900 miles out of a tank, it had 50 miles left when I filled it up to hand it back. Cost £72 to fill it up.
If I’d been doing longer, steady runs on motorways or dual-carriageways, I reckon it could have got close to 1000 miles from a full tank, which isn’t bad.
Nice car, very pokey, very comfy, but really too big for my needs these days. Sad to see it go back, though.
My F150 has a 138L tank. Not so bad in Canada, but it's going to smart when I bring it to the UK next month.
On the plus side I can get 1300km out of a tank, so at least it's infrequent
I never fill to the brim ..always top up in £30.00 multiples and just around the 1/2 tank mark ..why carry all of the dead weight to bring your average mpg down..?
Most fuel is from Costco ..premium diesel(B7) which has been slowly creeping up in price since the turn of the year £1.26.9 currently ..my car ( A6 Allroad))has a 63l tank ..so it would cost around £80.00 from empty ....
I also have an older ( 11plate) Insignia Sport Tourer ( 170bhp) diesel which is my daily commuter ..its average overall mpg is around 38..its been ( and still is ) a great car...
So you visit the petrol station multiple times to avoid carrying around approximately 30kg. I bet that the extra weight is negligible, unless you’re in a tiny underpowered car.
It's no real hardship calling in once every two days either before or after work as I'm passing ..wouldn't know what the difference is in terms of mpg ..only that there is a difference ( according to both the R.A.C & AA..)
simon_g
eGolf – about £1.60 on cheap overnight electricity to go 120 miles. Or about a fiver on a rapid charger for the same.
Really? eGolf has a 36kWh battery. £1.60 for 36kWh means your overnight tariff would be 4.4p/kWh? And how much extra do you pay on your normal tariff because of that? Also, rapid charge is usually about 30p/kwh unless its on a connected tariff like OVO. So closer to £10.
These things are only valid if you're doing high miles.
2004 BMW330i Sport Touring - 63l, premium unleaded - £88 for 350 miles (this take 8-10 weeks)
2017 BMW i3 REX - 94AH - £4.62 including the day rate for 130 miles.
Just put £75 in my SMax this morning. That will do me for 550 miles.
'The price of Ionity charging for BEVs has just been put up 500%. Yep, thats now 70p a KWhr… so more expensive than to fill up a Rolls Royce Cullinan.'
Guess it's inevitable, they've already established how much people will pay, so eventually running an EV won't be much different in costs to running an ICE?
What about home charging though? I wonder if new EV charging tariffs will come in? Or restrictions on what you can use off-peak tariffs for?
My T5 is always over £110 last one was £117 and lasts about a month. Looking at other T5s consumption on here this can only mean you guys don’t know about running on fumes or I have a penchant for expensive diesel
£110 for Peugeot boxer for work. Will last 450ish miles but as a tradesman obviously my fuel is free and I shouldn’t be charging customers for it as part of their bill.