I pulled into this BP garage and started sloshing in a load of 'Ultimate' and whilst doing it I noticed the price looked like this.....[1.2.9] per ltr. the display on the pump was faulty and I thought "nah" it must mean 1.129
How wrong was I
So that's £5.48 per Gallon
Before you shout I've put petrol in a HDi this was for her indoors car.
Petrol owners - how many miles do you do for £30.00 petrol around town? she got 150 miles last week which is 25MPG so about right really.
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The wifes focus is usually around 26-28 mpg, and she does mostly local stuff. Mine does early 30s on the work run, but well down in the 20s once it needs to do town stuff.
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It's funny (well it's not really) but I considered the extra cost of going from a Diesel to a petrol and thought it's not that great really but in reality you really notice it.
It should pay for itself in the end though in the lack of Diesel related repairs all the time
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Welton wrote:Petrol owners - how many miles do you do for £30.00 petrol around town? she got 150 miles last week which is 25MPG so about right really.
welly, i cant help but notice your HDi must be seriously unwell, my old one could do almost 300 miles to £20 about 68mpg, and that was mixed - motorway/town
that was running on shell V-power diesel, never had less than 37 mpg town driving
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Holy sh1t Welton! I'm getting about the same as mjb, my wife uses it as a run-about during the week, and she never puts any bloody fuel in it so it's always empty when I need the car
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i have a 1.8 petrol and last week driving like clarkson did in that big audi to scotland and back(like an old man basically) and 15 quid lasted me 4 days going to work and its a 25 mile round trip per day my dad 2.2hdi wouldnt do any thing like that, and where its nearly 8p a litre cheaper for petrol its cheaper to have petrol
I'm getting just under 650 miles to £60 of diesel at the mo which isn't too bad.
Most of my drive is fairly quick fast urban driving with lots of roundabouts so not the best for MPG.
My wife's 1.4 Corsa is fairly close to mine MPG wise but she doesn't have climate or any of the other toys and weighs about half the weight of my car ;)
All in all I consider the HDI pretty good, still wish I could get 900+ miles out of it like my old man can in his but maybe I should do some long motorway trips to see what it'll do.
Eric wrote:I'm getting just under 650 miles to £60 of diesel at the mo which isn't too bad.
Most of my drive is fairly quick fast urban driving with lots of roundabouts so not the best for MPG.
Eric, are you sure?
That would be 12 gallons/650 miles = 54MPG
(welcome back BTW )
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I do about the same as Eric, but I do 45mpg in my 2.1TD.
Tank = 70 litres/4.546 = 15.4 gallons
45mpg * 15.4 = 693 miles to the tank.
The most I've done on one tank before chickening out was 675 miles. That's at the point where the orange light was on for about 30 miles and I didn't want to play THAT game any longer! So I could probably do around 700 miles...
Eric wrote:I'm getting just under 650 miles to £60 of diesel at the mo which isn't too bad.
Most of my drive is fairly quick fast urban driving with lots of roundabouts so not the best for MPG.
Eric, are you sure?
That would be 12 gallons/650 miles = 54MPG
(welcome back BTW )
Yup not sure on the MPG but I always get around 600 miles from £60 before the light comes on and can get close to 50 miles on reserve.
Well as I found out once 50 miles on reserve means pushing the car but I still managed it ;)
Although come to think of it the light came on last time at 590 miles.
Still not too bad considering, I just really wish I had a trip computer so I could monitor it rather than wild guesses.
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