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how much do you reckon you spend on fuel a month?
work and leisure
Around £70 - £80, I love diesels.
About £300 virtually all work.
Around £60-70 diesel.
£0 formerly £400
About 120pm, all leisure.
100 quid a month 26 miles per day. Just realised what's been causing my horrendous mpg - the front wheels spin 0.5 revolutions when hoisted up. Some serious brake issues!
£54
I only put fuel in once a month.
100 quid leisure
300 quid + for work (all diesel)
About 1 tank per month = £100.
All leisure.
About £500 a month.
£200 a month for commuting to work @ 62 miles per day
£50 a month for leisure
I don't know but we do around 6000 miles a year and average around 50mpg so a lot less than most. My wife walks to work and cycle.
Roughly £600, mostly work, I average about a 1000 miles a week.
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About £160 usually.
£20-£30 8)
I love my scooter, £7 for a full tank, 100mpg~
£150 a month on work fuel, the 60+ mpg ibiza helps a lot with this and then probably the same again in the van for races and riding.
£250, over £200 of that is commuting.
£0.00
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I reckon about £300-£350....
we just had photovoltaic solar panels installed and I'm thinking a Nissan leaf would be a good idea - plug in during daylight hours for free juice, no road tax....save about £5k a year!! Trouble is the car will cost £26k...although can be had on a lease for about £300/month...will have to sit down properly and do the maths!
£0
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judging by the responses for far I'm at the higher end of the scale
about 200 quid a month in an efficient car that gets 50mpg+
almost 60 miles a day for work
Trouble is the car will cost £26k
I can't understand the Nissan Leaf, it seems v steep to buy
About £150 per month, 90% commute to work I expect.
I guess about £10-£20. All leisure - though I'm not sure going to the supermarket counts as leisure.
Normally less than a tank so £50? Split with the other half.
Neither or us commute by car and only drive for leisure. I can't actually remember when we last filled up so might even be closer to a tank evey 2 months.
Fill up twice a month, £80 each time. Pretty much all work. My missus wants a freelander 2 or a Q5 next !! 😯
~£200
between me and the wife, just under £400 😥
£20-30ish.
Velocipede - my mondeo cost £4k 2 years ago, and I do 100 miles commute daily. Surly that's better value than spending £26k?
I know exactly. I keep a record on Road Trip on my phone! (geek alert!)
In the last month, for example:
Car - £205.67 average 42.2mpg, 1.6 petrol Focus estate
Motorbike - £159.56, average 45.8mpg, Ducati ST3s, 992cc, but that gets ridden a fair bit harder than I drive the car....
All of our car fuel comes out of my work expenses though, and about £45 of that bike fuel did too
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a trillion dollars
Just a thought, but can any of these mpg numbers people are quoting be backed up with cold, hard statistics?
Or is it just a guess or a trip computer?
Do you not trust trip computers? Mine says if I drive very carefully I can achieve 37mpg. Or drive with a bit more welly for 30.
Which means in a month I spend approx £150 pretty much all commuting.
I'm not sure anyone is as [s]anal[/s] conscientious as you PP.
About £100 for me & family.
pp, serious question, how do you know the trip distance is right? if i look at speedo and a gps the two give differing speeds, i would suspect the distances differ as well.
Just a thought, but can any of these mpg numbers people are quoting be backed up with cold, hard statistics?
Ye I keep a spreadsheet and record the number of litres I put in to reach full tank/pump cutoff
As well as recording the price per litre and mileage of the car at the point of fill
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£20-30 normally, everything local!
Nothing - unless food counts as a fuel fr cycling
Have some of you ever thought of living closer to where you work? Doesn't half make life easier.
And most months, £0 for me - bike and train (if necessary) make mentally relaxing journeys.
Jeez I'm a bit if a drinker compared to you guys!!
I do about 1200 miles a week in a Ford Transit, that costs about £275 a week!
My other half spends about £70 a month for commuting and We put about £50 a month in for getting around.
pp, serious question, how do you know the trip distance is right? if i look at speedo and a gps the two give differing speeds, i would suspect the distances differ as well.
I know the milage is not 100% accurate. It's taken from the same sensor as the speed, and pretty much every car in the world over reads on speed, so the milage will be OTT as well by the same amount.
But that can't be changed. It's the most accurate reading available.
But no. I don't trust fuel computers because I've got 17,000 miles worth of data that proves the car one over reads. And now 1400 miles of data that proves the bike one under reads!
What people generally quote is the odd trip computer reading that they can remember.... (One that makes their car sound good???)
And they don't realise it varies. They don't know how fuel consumption changes with different factors, because they've not been keeping records for hundreds of thousands of miles for 21 years in god knows how many different vehicles (not all cars) like I have. I admit I am an EPIC fuel geek. But as such I really do know what I'm on about. It's not bullshit. 🙂
about a tank or so - £76