Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Please note that it is not permitted to have referral links posted in your signature. Keep these links contained in the appropriate forum. Thank you.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055940817/signature-rules

Think I got ripped in petrol station...what is the capacity of fuel tank Clio III?

Options
  • 29-08-2010 8:17pm
    #1
    1059007
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭


    Hey, Filled the Clio III 2006 with 15 liters yesterday and the fuel gage was just a hair under half full. So today, I decided to put another 15 liters in today (complements of a bet i won :D). So in my head that should fill the other half....am I wrong? It only filled the tank to 3/4 full, so Im left wondering is my gage is shaged, or my tank weird or the petrol station ripped me off by 50%! Not sure if I can say what station it is but I think is spelt Mxaol in Bublin 6 ;):p

    Any info be mad handys thanks

    Cheers


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    55 L according to Parkers

    This might explain what happened!


  • Options
    #3
    Poly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    tanks can be odd shapes, petrol-o-meters can be odd too.


  • Options
    #4
    MacGyver
    Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭MacGyver


    what was the gauge at to start with yesterday before the initial 15 litres?


  • Options
    #5
    vandriver
    Registered Users Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭vandriver


    10 Seconds googling revealed that the clio has a 55 litre tank.Have you never filled the car before?


  • Options
    #6
    Chriscl1
    Registered Users Posts: 999 ✭✭✭Chriscl1


    1059007 wrote: »
    Not sure if I can say what station it is but I think is spelt Mxaol in Bublin 6 ;):p

    Any info be mad handys thanks

    Cheers
    harolds cross? ive had a few head scratching moments at that place with how many litres ive managed to fit into my tank.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    Ya your wrong, 15 litres would not be enough to fill it from half to full. Add to that the fact that the guage may not be evenly calibrted through it's range then I'd say 15 litres bringing it from half to 3/4 full is about right.


  • Options
    #8
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Chriscl1 wrote: »
    harolds cross? ive had a few head scratching moments at that place with how many litres ive managed to fit into my tank.

    Half the taxi drivers in Dublin seem to get their fuel there. I doubt you could pull the wool over their eyes where fuel is concerned!


  • Options
    #9
    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    to guage = to give a rough estimate

    to measure = a different story altogether


    they're called fuel guages for a reason :D


  • Options
    #10
    1059007
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭1059007


    The gage was sitting just above the red fill line MacGyver...so 30 liters in total went into the task and I wrecking there was around 7 liters in it before hand.....done me maths and seem to work out. Peasant, your dead right a gage is only a crude measure....taking into account I fill it with 15 liters and add another 7 onto that for the second half of the tank I shout get near full.

    Yep Chriscl1, thats the one...Iv had many weird fills in there! Well a lot of taxi's fill up in the Emo off james street!


  • Options
    #11
    PaulKK
    Registered Users Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭PaulKK


    The gauge showing half full does not mean the tank is half full.

    You will usually find that the first indicated "half" of the tank will last longer than the second.

    For example, my car will do 350 miles on the first "half" and about 280 on the second "half".


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    Shane732
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 4,991 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shane732


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Half the taxi drivers in Dublin seem to get their fuel there. I doubt you could pull the wool over their eyes where fuel is concerned!

    I use that garage all the time...... Highly unlikely you got ripped off...


  • Options
    #13
    Tragedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Tragedy


    Same, and I track all fill-ups so would know if I got (badly) ripped off.


  • Options
    #14
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Petrol cap could be locking in air, making your tank collapse under normal atmospheric pressure. It happened a number of years ago to a friend of mine with a Renault.


  • Options
    #15
    RandomAccess
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭RandomAccess


    guage, gage, gauge.. arghhhh


  • Options
    #16
    Hal1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    It's either half full or half empty :p.


  • Options
    #17
    chris85
    Registered Users Posts: 4,502 ✭✭✭chris85


    1059007 wrote: »
    The gage was sitting just above the red fill line MacGyver...so 30 liters in total went into the task and I wrecking there was around 7 liters in it before hand.....done me maths and seem to work out. Peasant, your dead right a gage is only a crude measure....taking into account I fill it with 15 liters and add another 7 onto that for the second half of the tank I shout get near full.

    Yep Chriscl1, thats the one...Iv had many weird fills in there! Well a lot of taxi's fill up in the Emo off james street!

    by the way you didnt put 15 litres in each time for €15 each time. You would have to be getting the fuel at €1 per litre if it was. just a factors as well for your calculations.


Advertisement