ray barker

me and the wife went out in saff yesterday afternoon, i put twenty quid in it we done thirty carefull miles it took the lot and a bit more. saffs arnt none for good fuel consumption but not getting fuk all for your money doesnt help. morrisons in pezance doesnt have there totem pole displaying the price lit up anymore. not sure if this is a bad or good thing, i got a kawasaki 1400 as well i managed to get thirty quid in that. so between the two cars and the bike we got thats seventy quid and we dont go very far. i feel sorry for you lot thats mile munching every day. this aint no merrygoround its a fukin circus

cossynut2

Hi Ray, I put the Shell Optimax in my Saff and £20 worth would not last long even driving it steady, hard driving it would be gone very quickly!!!

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

Yeh its a shame now..we can't even enjoy our hobby without paying a fortune to go for a drive out.

ray barker

ive notticed in the last couple of weeks theres not as many visitors here in west cornwall for the time of year. very few foreign vehicles. it brings back memoreis of the traval restrictions during covid. i was coming back with the lorry yesterday late afternoon there was massive gaps in the traffic. we didnt realise but visitors make up for as much thirty to forty percent of the traffic either day tripers or here for a week or two. we had similar when people started panic buying fuel in the early part of the year alot of people stayed away. i went to whales with a mate in his van to pick up an rg gamma 500 motorcycle recently it took £350 in diesel just going straight there and back. that now would be £400. add the heating and electric crisis to this were going to end up in a recession

rik-rs

Wait untill pay as we drive comes in, that`ll soon be up to £1 a mile....

gcfcos

Got to say I rarely take the cossie out now due to fuel cost. Used to use it all the time round town or get it out for a blast, £20 now just to go out for an hour or so! Makes me mad when you realise most of the cost is Tax to the government

scoooby slayer

iTrader: (4)

at £2 a litre including vat that's £1.68 per litre plus vat, then 53 pence of that is duty.

So garage takes £1.15 a litre, government 85 pence roughly

BIG LEE

Dependn were you live and what your paying at say £2.10p a liter for optimax vpower etc £20 isnt going to touch the sides like thats the problem here..

Also dependn what your driven daily you will see the differnce

GVK.

I've got my first diesel as last car was only averaging in the 20s mpg, now have a TDI and its doing 50mpg on the same journies.

ray barker

thats cool its a real burdon of your pocket. i couldnt imagine running somthing like the saff every day. my wife has an astra deisel im always putting fuel in that now or seem to be. nobody in west cornwall is two pound a littre yet there point one short

RSMK4TURBO

Terrible situation at the min, i feel bad for those that need the car for work, no pleasure having cars at the moment. Had my cossie out for 2nd time this year today, normally this time of year id have it out most weekends.

ray barker

yeh me to we were going out today but her car needed fuel as well so i thought there not getting doulbe bubble out of me today. the most worrying thing is there no mension of prices coming down

cossynut2

The government makes out it is doing all it can to help through these tough economic times, what a load of bullshit!!! Slash fuel duty by an amount that will make a proper difference, not a lousy 5p a litre which was an insult!!!!!!

BIG LEE

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like out else aload of shit but about 85% or people just band over nd put up with it like road tax some cars are say 650 a year but same car etc reg 2weeks before its 340 how does that work? end of day weather people is 50p or £500 at pump it doesnt effect like borris or anyone like road tax and everything there dont live in the real world..

Caddyshack

Had to fill up the Rangie and the Horse Lorry this weekend...that is nearly £400 in fuel and will give a total of 650 miles across both.

At least our mini does 48 to the gallon and my Twizy is about £1.50 to fill up with electricity for 50 miles. I use the Twizy for most local journeys.

My Cossie does about 8mpg if I give it the beans...and I do not drive it unless I wanna go for it.

Caddyshack

Very true. My Rangie is £650 but if I had bought the same year car but with stop start it would have been about £300 now...at the time it was not an issue...cocked up there!

BIG LEE

i run a overfinch 430s daily 4.2 supercharged. not that it bothers me but road tax is cheaper band and its ulez free aswell.. its a 2006 model

Caddyshack

Wow, what does that do to the gallon? I remember test driving a supercharged sport and I turned on the MPG read out, I don't think it was in double figures for most of the drive.

ray barker

on the radio the other day they were talking about political parties no supprise there. some people were saying we need a new partie an ordinary peoples partie a partie that would give a fuk about people like me and you. they would get my vote

BIG LEE

about doors just tootlen about 13/14mpg that real figger not read out or anything if you poke it with stick it will down around 7 or 8 mpg.. but tbh ive had 4.6 p38 v8s there only do 9mpg about doors and like sierra xr4i v6s there 18mpg about doors like v6 mondeos aswell..

But the jeep is 2.8 ton and 430bhp so she doesnt do bad imo

Caddyshack

I guess the power overcomes the weight eventually. It is a great engine too.

BIG LEE

Tbh its unreal how quick it is from nothing it will out run most daily rides but once its on move say 30/40mph it soon gets upto 90/100 with no effort at all... its the jaguar engine witch is a ford motor quad cam v8..

Caddyshack

it would be a good engine for something like an Ultima kit car, just remapped to suit the application. Probably quite a few around, lots of spares and quite light. Modern enough design etc…

BIG LEE

Yeah there all alloy.. the engine im sure is from xkr era so 90s started at 4.0 and then 4.2. the newer 5.0 svr engine im not sure what that is but there full of problems with superchargers and timing chains slipping not good on a 100/130k jeep like.. but i think 4.2 supercharged engine is a solid proven engine obv if looked after mine gets oil change every 3000mile like all my cars etc never a pick of bother from it