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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
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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
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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.
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.