pani_k

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Nothing new here, just filled up as usual with V-Power which is normally 105.9 (was last saturday) and went this morning and was 109.9

I can't believe it. The 105.9 wasn't bad considering but now its just got worse! I can't afford to stick £20-£30 worth in to only get like 18 or 27 litres of fuel!

Redkop

I paid 109.9 yesterday as well and 105.9 for diesel

Ian M500COS

When will this madness end?

Would the French stand for it?

Physio

You have 2 options

Option 1) Dont use your car

OR

Option 2) Dont moan

Actually, you have 3 options

Option 3) Do something about it!!

Although I think theres a 4th option & I think your going to chose option 4

Option 4) Continue to use your car, continue to moan about the price of fuel & not do anything about it

Graceland

Option 5

STFU and pay the price

Physio

pani_k

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I'm going to have to shut up and put up arent I!! I refuse to put ordinary unleaded in anyway but just as well since recently cos of the fuel uproar the garage is normally out of unleaded and diesel too

V-Power remains but at extortionate prices! I remember V-Power 101.7 a few months back at the same garage!

Graceland

I can remember V-Power being as low as 89.9p a litre

BM08

no offence but why put performance fuel into your focus?

pani_k

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I just have a bee in my bonnet about how my engine is treated and therefore I only buy V-Power. I don't know why but I can't bring myself to put ordinary unleaded in. I get a gut wrenching feeling that my poor engine is not liking it if that makes sense. Only want whtas best for it.

Graceland

Your engine would run on poverty spec 92 ron or even worse, 88 ron, so I wouldn't bother using V-Power, It won't have no effect at all except using 95 ron will be lighter on your wallet

pani_k

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Righto. I've never put regular unleaded in it before. Might have to though

Graceland

Its why modern cars come with automatic octane adjustment built into the software on the ECU

andyt

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should try being a self employed courier mate, i dont moan i just cry every day i fill up

phil_focus

i remember filling my mum's car up with petrol for about 74p a litre, must have been 6 or 7 years ago though. fuel is stupidly expensive...just hit £1 a litre of petrol for me...to buy as a consumer cos the govement put so many taxes on it and then taxes on the taxes!!!! it only costs about 25p to get a litre to the pump! the govenment is trying to price people off the road but trouble is we need our cars as public transport is absolute shite apart from in major cities.

we really need to do something about it but it requires ALL of us and noone seems to care enough anymore!

S1rst

Me too mate. All these people moaning when they only use about a tank a week, they should try using a tank a day, and see how much out of pocket you are over the month! I cant even put my rates up either cos it seems that competitive at the moment.

SassyRS

its £1.14 here

rst in breaking

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ouch, that must hit you hard, must feel like wages dropping all the time?

rst in breaking

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thats probaly why lol, i do that per week

S1rst

I can do nearly that a day on average and very often even more in a day. I remember last year it was 89.9 for diesel, so its now over 15 pence per litre more. Based on a tank a day for me (about 50 litres), thats £7.50 per tank more, so £7.50 less that i make, so thats £45 per week, so thats a pay cut of £2340 over the year.

S1rst

65mpg! Get ready to multiply your fuel bill by 3 or 4!

phil_focus

ka's are actually quite shite on fuel. i can get 38-39 mpg out of my 1.6 escort withought really trying. if i try hard enough i will get over 40. my mate has a ka and only gets bout 38 max and thats trying really really hard!!!!

having said that when i put my foot down it drops

phil_focus

wish my escort was that quick. mind you i have had an indicated 129 out of my mum's old 1.8 petrol focus before some saab driver decided he'd drive into the back of me at 50mph and wrote it off

loved that car, drove it for my first 2 years on the road

pani_k

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I did a roughly a 12-13 mile round trip today and put about £5 of v power in already had some fuel but was town driving and I was giving it a bit of welly now and again and fuel gauge in the same position it was before I filled up

rst in breaking

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its knowing how we can make prices drop, im not using bp etc and all the big names at the min, but car ain on the road so its only van using it but all helps, if everyone done it like said before given time it could catch on with more and more publicity causing them to drop prices to get custom back?

Diamonds.

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what i dont get is that we had a strike and no fuel for a few days when it hit like 90p or something but now its well over a quid fuck all is happening

Benni

Some Eagle NCT5s should make up for 70% of your fuel consumption mate, I had them and there fantastic. Grip like you wouldn't think was possible too. Best of both worlds I had.

Benni

Mine are the same mate, I think there perfomance in the wet is there party piece though, I've felt grip I never thought possible. It's a shame you had to go back to 888's as in every aspect the NCT5 is better.

Benni.

ozcos

You will never get the fuel price down in the UK.
It is the governments way of forcing you off the road and on the bus/train.
They don't want you in your car on a road network they have to maintain but can slowly force you to use train/bus all privately owned and once this gets to dear you will be on foot or bicycle, This is there ideal result then they will tax footpaths and bike ways.

Cheap fuel is just not going to happen ever again.
Why do you think so many people on this forum now have left the UK.
If you have a skill use it to get out.

dojj

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i have the ability to get sunburnt, do you think they'll accept that as a valid resson to move to aus mate

our vans use about half a tank of diesel a day on average, but we've got 12 so that means we put in roughly £2k of fuel in a week at our depot

there are roughly 80 vans in our company, and we do the least amount of mileage as we are mainly in and around london, so there are guys out there who do a tank a day and then some
so if you even base it on an average of 3/4 of a tank of juice per vehicle per day that equates to roughly £20k a week on just fuel alone

we won't be getting a bonus this christams, and i don't think we'll be getting anything above an inflation based pay rise this year either ;(

ozcos

The ability to get sun burnt LOL Takes about 10mins here at moment and its like it from 6am to 6pm. 32*c here today. You get out of bed sweating and go to bed sweating. By christmas day the sea will be like a very warm bath.
If you towel dry you work up a sweat, hahaha At least I am only 100mtrs from the beach

About 52p a lt here at moment and you want to here them winge but they all drive V8 autos all noise and not a huge amount of go.

Its not all good some roads maybe 40km long and dead straight but the road surface is terrible here in QLD