****ty fuel or just too much driving?

arleitiss

Hey, I got a small corsa C 1.2L year 2001, I once filled up at topaz for 50 euro had like nearly full tank, and drove like 300-400 miles on that with just small fill ups (sometimes 10, sometimes 15 euro fill ups but rearely).

last time I filled up at Esso, and had like 24% of fuel tank filled, drove like 70 km that day, then filled up for 15 euro. Tank emptied very quickly (or I just drove too much that I didn't notice), this morning I got into awkward situation where I started up car and low fuel indicator came up and the arrow was on red, so I had to somehow drive to nearest station which ended up being esso again, I filled up by 50 euro, fuel tank was nearly full, I drove few times back and forth across city centre and that was like 25% gone already, like wtf what could be the reason? I mean mechanics looked at car and all possible problems, said all alright, is it just the crappy fuel or what? Anyone had experience with Esso?

Also:
Does heater and wind heating (or whatever it's called) takes fuel or electricity? because I have it on nearly always.

ottostreet

Nothing sounds out of the ordinary really, about right for town driving.

24% of a fuel tank though you say? How do you even calculate that!

arleitiss

ottostreet wrote: »

Nothing sounds out of the ordinary really, about right for town driving.

24% of a fuel tank though you say? How do you even calculate that!

No idea
Just saw this on dashboard,
I have middle line on fuel gauge, says 1/2
then there is small white line between this 1/2 and red line, so I assume that's 25%, arrow was bit below this 25% so I assume rougly 24%

pa990

€50 .... How many litres of fuel did you buy each time, and how many miles /km did you travel.

Anan1

arleitiss wrote: »

No idea
Just saw this on dashboard,
I have middle line on fuel gauge, says 1/2
then there is small white line between this 1/2 and red line, so I assume that's 25%, arrow was bit below this 25% so I assume rougly 24%

Fuel gauges are nothing like as accurate as you think, so forget this method. The only way to accurately calculate fuel consumption is to fill, zero the trip meter and then calculate based on the distance travelled/litres used when you refill.

dgt

I find esso to be rather damn good and my van is very picky on the fuels it gets. It's up there with texaco, 2 of the best in this country imo. Tried the rest, most didn't give the same value for price or gave me grief.

I thinks a lot of town/urban driving is to blame there op

dak

Why not fill the tank to the brim record your mileage and when you get to about half full fill it up again and record your mileage.

When you refill divide the distance travelled by the number of litres you filled up by . This will tell you how many litres you are using per Kilometre.

ballooba

OP may not have noticed that the price of fuel has gone astronomical. If you're measuring the amount of fuel you're putting in by the monetary value, then you're going to notice it running out a lot quicker.

EUR 10 worth at EUR 1.25 a litre is 8 litres.
EUR 10 worth at EUR 1.60 a litre is 6.25 litres.

arleitiss

oh, well I am always afraid to fill up full, can it overflow? or will it automatically stop?

Nonoperational

It will click and the fuel will stop coming out. You won't overflow.

Thatnastyboy

ballooba wrote: »

OP may not have noticed that the price of fuel has gone astronomical. If you're measuring the amount of fuel you're putting in by the monetary value, then you're going to notice it running out a lot quicker.

EUR 20 worth at EUR 1.25 a litre is 8 litres.
EUR 20 worth at EUR 1.60 a litre is 6.25 litres.

:eek:

I presume you mean €10

Matt Simis

ballooba wrote: »

OP may not have noticed that the price of fuel has gone astronomical. If you're measuring the amount of fuel you're putting in by the monetary value, then you're going to notice it running out a lot quicker.

EUR 20 worth at EUR 1.25 a litre is 8 litres.
EUR 20 worth at EUR 1.60 a litre is 6.25 litres.

Yeah, OP needs to actually look at what [quantity] he is buying not much much it cost. You dont buy 2euro of milk either.

Thatnastyboy

I used to work as a pump attendant in a filling station,

And you wouldn't believe the rows people used to have with me about fuel quantities.

A 'lady' in a RR vogue tdv8 diesel pottered in and instructed me to put 10e diesel in for her,

I did so, even went as far as putting €10.01 into it :P, price was circa 1.5 a litre, so she got around 6 and a half litres,

She pulled up again about 3 minutes later claiming that our pump was 'dodgy' because her guage never moved with the addition of this massive amount of fuel into 100+ litre fuel tank :eek: cue a big argument and her vowing "never to subject herself to such demeaning service again"

So, as above, buy in litres, not value.

And in most cases the pump doesn't lie

Leonard Hofstadter

Also worth noting that when the fuel gauge says there is half a tank of petrol there rarely is anything near that amount in it. For example, if you fill my car (50 litre tank), the gauge will tell you that it has a 'full' tank of petrol for about 100 miles after you've actually filled it!

Very few fuel gauges are linear, most are logarithmic - i.e. when you fill them, the gauge will move very slowly/not at all for the first while, then move more rapidly as it gets closer to empty even if the average fuel consumption was the same all the time since you filled up the car.

ballooba

I've been doing a bit of motorway driving of late and have been taking an interest in the trip computer. I get about 8L/100km which probably isn't stellar, but it's great to have that info.

Leonard Hofstadter

ballooba wrote: »

I've been doing a bit of motorway driving of late and have been taking an interest in the trip computer. I get about 8L/100km which probably isn't stellar, but it's great to have that info.

Trip computers aren't terribly accurate, although they are a lot more accurate than the 'miles to the euro' method employed by some people further up the thread!

For total accuracy, the 'brim it, drive it and brim it again' method is the only way to correctly work out your mpg.

arleitiss

well I checked my driving today,
I drove 70 miles today, and it shows a little less than 1/4 gone.

TestTransmission

arleitiss wrote: »

well I checked my driving today,
I drove 70 miles today, and it shows a little less than 1/4 gone.

This:

Anan1 wrote: »

Fuel gauges are nothing like as accurate as you think, so forget this method. The only way to accurately calculate fuel consumption is to fill, zero the trip meter and then calculate based on the distance travelled/litres used when you refill.

arleitiss

TestTransmission wrote: »

This:

Yeah next time I refill fully I will reset it and see what happens.