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how much fuel my current car has used...

  • 07-03-2009 1:00am
    #1
    tommmy1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭


    my car is approaching 200,000 miles now....

    i did a few sums to calculate how much fuel it's used...

    here's what i got

    34,000 litres approx

    to put that into perspective, if you were too pour that into a cylindrical tank of 2meter diameter it would be filled to a height of 10.8 meters :eek:


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  • #2
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    An even more interesting perspective would be:

    34000 * price at pump / your annual net earnings


  • #3
    patrickc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,972 ✭✭✭patrickc


    tommmy1979 wrote: »
    my car is approaching 200,000 miles now....

    i did a few sums to calculate how much fuel it's used...

    here's what i got

    34,000 litres approx

    to put that into perspective, if you were too pour that into a cylindrical tank of 2meter diameter it would be filled to a height of 10.8 meters :eek:

    thats alot of fuel..

    whats the car at that mileage?

    then again im prob not that far off you


  • #4
    tommmy1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭tommmy1979


    patrickc wrote: »
    thats alot of fuel..

    whats the car at that mileage?

    then again im prob not that far off you

    2.0 bmw


  • #5
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,378 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    patrickc wrote: »
    thats alot of fuel..

    whats the car at that mileage?

    then again im prob not that far off you

    Depends on perspective though...

    Using an annual average of 15000 miles it approximates to 13 years use. If you were to show someone a fuel tank 2m by 15m and tell them that will do you 13 years, I think they'd say that's quite good/

    Perhaps it's better visualized as a diameter of 10.8 meters that is 2 meters high. Better wide than tall I always say.


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