A REAL Miser

meoklmrk91

I currently have a 00 VW Polo, have had her for nearly two years. I am starting college in September and the penny pinching is really starting now, shes a great car never really gives me any bother apart from the pedal box going every once and while and is cheap on tax and insurance being a 1L and all. The problem is she is costing me a bomb on petrol anything up to €60 a week and tbh I really don't do that much on the milage, I've only put up 20,000 since I've had her. I am going to be making a round trip of 60km a day 4 days a week in September and I don't really see how I am going to be able to afford it. So I am thinking about selling her and buying something else, is there anything out there that would be better than the polo on petrol.

EPM

That's 240km a week. That should be costing you €30 tops. If the car can't do that there's something wrong with it. It's madness spending money to change it unless it's on it's last legs.

Alanstrainor

OP the thousands you'd spend on a different car would pay for a lot of petrol! You have to measure exactly how much petrol your car is using, if it's really drinking it, there's something wrong.

Well, that is unless you're driving it like a lunatic all the time...that would also take its toll!

You have a reliable cheap to insure and tax motor. I wouldn't got changing that in a hurry.

blue-army

Definitely something wrong there.
I drive an 2004 Polo (1.2L) and I often set the clock when I top up the tank.

I always get about 160 miles (257km) for €30 petrol.

meoklmrk91

I hear ye lads, don't know why it's costing me so much, def not from driving like a lunatic, them days are well past me, learned my lesson there the first time round and will not be going back again. My dad wants me to get it checked by a mechanic cause he thinks it outrageous, so I might do that but it's not like I don't look after he she always gets serviced on time and the rest.

shedweller

OP, get the car serviced with the lightest oil the manual allows for the conditions, check gearbox oil, get alignment done, inflate tyres properly and don't gun it off the lights. And don't drive right up to a red light, lift off the go pedal way before it and brake near the end to stop. You could take 20 euro per week off your fuel bill with a bit of effort and the only outlay would be the servicing.

Vicxas

shedweller wrote: »

OP, get the car serviced with the lightest oil the manual allows for the conditions, check gearbox oil, get alignment done, inflate tyres properly and don't gun it off the lights. And don't drive right up to a red light, lift off the go pedal way before it and brake near the end to stop. You could take 20 euro per week off your fuel bill with a bit of effort and the only outlay would be the servicing.

+1 for this, my Corolla was chewing about 85 quids worth of petrol, a service and a balance/alignment brought this down to 65-70 a week.