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E39MSport

Most I ever spent on a tank of diesel. I think it was at 138/litre in Nutgrove.

Hits home when it goes over the tonne mark.

Fizman

Christ, what do you drive? Tank capacity? I thought I had it bad hitting €82 filling the GTI.

MarkoC

You can always fill half of the tank, makes it half cheaperr

Its 122€ to fill our petrol bus ... 84l tank and 23-25 mpg average

I'm sure my E34 520i took the guts of €100 to fill.

seamus

My last fill went over €60 for the first time since I've started driving. When the euro came in, I filled my car at the time for €35 (fiat punto).

80 litre tank OP, that's pretty savage.

Gumbo

when i first bought my 4.4 X5 i decided to treat myself on pick up day and fill the tank, i chickened out at 100e, i had no more money with me and it was still going.

that was nearly 3 years ago, so god knows how much it would cost today :eek:

E39MSport

96l capacity - Jesus that'll be c. 140 for a complete fill if it touches 1.50. Its a 2000 Amazon.

MarkoC

kceire wrote: »

when i first bought my 4.4 X5 i decided to treat myself on pick up day and fill the tank, i chickened out at 100e, i had no more money with me and it was still going.

that was nearly 3 years ago, so god knows how much it would cost today :eek:

I can be a god here
Actually calculator is amazing tool

Matt Simis

E39MSport wrote: »

Most I ever spent on a tank of diesel. I think it was at 138/litre in Nutgrove.

Hits home when it goes over the tonne mark.

May I interest you in this thread:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056142768&page=5&highlight=veg%2A+oil%2A

E39MSport

You may - top stuff there Matt. I completely missed that thread.

I looked into all this before and chickened out. Also, a new IP for my bus runs at 6,000 if it goes mammories up.

Keep up the good work

kona

Erm, why do people fill the tank up to the top? Its madness, especially a 80L tank! if you only filled up half way you would save logging around 40kgs of dead weight! Dead weight costs more petrol to move to essentially for every litre over what you need on the journey its costing you more than the 1.49 to use.
I only ever put e20 in at a time and fill up as I need to. Plus If you find it cheaper at the next station happy days. Although I do understand its practicle with me living in dublin and petrol everywhere, maybe in the country its not as simple.

E39MSport

kona wrote: »

Erm, why do people fill the tank up to the top? Its madness, especially a 80L tank! if you only filled up half way you would save logging around 40kgs of dead weight! Dead weight costs more petrol to move to essentially for every litre over what you need on the journey its costing you more than the 1.49 to use.
I only ever put e20 in at a time and fill up as I need to. Plus If you find it cheaper at the next station happy days. Although I do understand its practicle with me living in dublin and petrol everywhere, maybe in the country its not as simple.

I wouldn't get to the next filling station on 20 squids

E39MSport

Let's ignore this and move it to PaintDoctors thread.

kona

E39MSport wrote: »

I wouldn't get to the next filling station on 20 squids

In a way, Im jealous

Dazzy

Last fill was €113. 82 :eek:
83 Litres @ €1.369 a litre. (Bet ya someone does the numbers to see if I can add ).

Its an E53 with a whopping 93 Litre tank so if I waited a while I could have squeezed another 10 Litres or €11 in.

godtabh

seamus wrote: »

My last fill went over €60 for the first time since I've started driving. When the euro came in, I filled my car at the time for €35 (fiat punto).

80 litre tank OP, that's pretty savage.

The good old days!

I used to spend between €34-€40 on filling up my punto. Then I changed to €20 a go when it got expensive so it seemed like I was spending less money!

Found it at 142.9c/l yesterday and filled my Saab 93 up. Cost about €70

Big Nasty

Cq. €120 for a fill

ToxicPaddy

Spent €95 the other day filling mine..

Red light was on when I pulled into the forecourt so I filled her up and prayed it last me for a few weeks.. some hope :pac:

Now I pay with my laser card as handing over 2 x €50 notes and only getting a €5 back brings a tear to my eye..

Idleater

I had a mild heart attack when the fill-up cost me €20.08 this morning. Never seen it go above €20 before.


€0.08c per km

(bike before anyone asks 5.6l/100k)

jimmycrackcorm

kona wrote: »

Erm, why do people fill the tank up to the top? Its madness, especially a 80L tank! if you only filled up half way you would save logging around 40kgs of dead weight! Dead weight costs more petrol to move to essentially for every litre over what you need on the journey its costing you more than the 1.49 to use.

Better tell the other half then that I can't be giving her lifts anywhere then

GavRedKing

50 litre tank (petrol) took about 70 quid to fill. Not to bad.

Ryath

Idleater wrote: »

I had a mild heart attack when the fill-up cost me €20.08 this morning. Never seen it go above €20 before.


€0.08c per km

(bike before anyone asks 5.6l/100k)

Miss those cheap days on the bike €15 to fill 15L tank used to get 65mpg around Dublin and 75mpg on trips down the country. Even caning it I'd get 70mpg and once got 80 on a very wet and windy night when I took it very handy. On the other hand a set of tires cost €350 and I wouldn't get much more than 6000km out of the back one and the bike had to be serviced twice a year.

My car now is much cheaper to run though despite the worse mpg and extra motor tax. For the time savings in Dublin traffic though the bike was well worth it.

SpannerMonkey

kona wrote: »

Erm, why do people fill the tank up to the top? Its madness, especially a 80L tank! if you only filled up half way you would save logging around 40kgs of dead weight! Dead weight costs more petrol to move to essentially for every litre over what you need on the journey its costing you more than the 1.49 to use.
I only ever put e20 in at a time and fill up as I need to. Plus If you find it cheaper at the next station happy days. Although I do understand its practicle with me living in dublin and petrol everywhere, maybe in the country its not as simple.

20 euro would get me to work and maybe back that evening would get really old stopping twice a day for petrol :rolleyes:

Gary ITR

€52 for me to fill tonight from near empty, Maxol have the best juice but they are also the most expensive :mad:

Voodoomelon

kona wrote: »

Erm, why do people fill the tank up to the top? Its madness, especially a 80L tank! if you only filled up half way you would save logging around 40kgs of dead weight! Dead weight costs more petrol to move to essentially for every litre over what you need on the journey its costing you more than the 1.49 to use.
I only ever put e20 in at a time and fill up as I need to. Plus If you find it cheaper at the next station happy days. Although I do understand its practicle with me living in dublin and petrol everywhere, maybe in the country its not as simple.

Petrol weighs approx 730g a litre, its not the same as water.

If you have a large 85 litre tank like meself, chances are its a gas guzzler with a large enough engine. Lugging around an extra 29.2kg (half tank) will make 0.0000001% difference to fuel consumption to most cars, let alone a large engined one. You're much better off changing your driving style to save fuel, the simplest one being examining the traffic ahead and adjusting your speed accordingly to minimise braking.

Also, If I were to fill up with €20 a time, it would mean going to fill up 6 times instead of once, how much more does that cost?

Also, MPG figures are quoted with a driver and a full tank of fuel, you'll do well to get close to most of them, even with a half tank.

Neilw

€55 the last 2 fills, small tank!
Getting 35mpg average so not all bad.

sean1141

i seen my mate put 500euro of diesel in his truck one day!! think it was in 2009.. same year silage contractor i know was puting 200euro of agri diesel in each of his 3 tractors every day!

my own car has a 55l tank but it has not been full in ages!