Dublin to Dundalk - How much?

Banjaxed82

how much (ball park) petrol money to do a round trip in a VW Golf?

Cheers

L1011

Fuelly gives real-world figures of 33.4mpg for a 1.4 petrol Golf, that's US figures (their gallons are different) and on the pisswater they call gas rather than 95RON so we'll call it 41mpg in Ireland, 17.5km per litre

Dublin Dundalk Dublin is about 170km so we'll call it ten litres, €13.50 or so.

Losty Dublin

L1011 wrote: »

Fuelly gives real-world figures of 33.4mpg for a 1.4 petrol Golf, that's US figures (their gallons are different) and on the pisswater they call gas rather than 95RON so we'll call it 41mpg in Ireland, 17.5km per litre

Dublin Dundalk Dublin is about 170km so we'll call it ten litres, €13.50 or so.

Don't forget that if you live on the south or west side then the distance will be longer and road tolls will come into play.

n97 mini

L1011 wrote: »

Fuelly gives real-world figures of 33.4mpg for a 1.4 petrol Golf, that's US figures (their gallons are different) and on the pisswater they call gas rather than 95RON so we'll call it 41mpg in Ireland, 17.5km per litre

Dublin Dundalk Dublin is about 170km so we'll call it ten litres, €13.50 or so.

Couple of things wrong with this.
1. Fuelly's figures are international as it has users from all over the world, including me, so the figures are for pisswater they call gas and for 95RON.
2. 33.4 mpg US is 40.1 mpg imperial.
3. Assuming your 41mpg, 41 miles is 66km and a gallon is 4.546 litres. In other words 41mpg is 14.51km per litre.
4. O'Connell St to Dublin St is 82km.

L1011

n97 mini wrote: »

Couple of things wrong with this.
1. Fuelly's figures are international as it has users from all over the world, including me, so the figures are for pisswater they call gas and for 95RON.
2. 33.4 mpg US is 40.1 mpg imperial.
3. Assuming your 41mpg, 41 miles is 66km and a gallon is 4.546 litres. In other words 41mpg is 14.51km per litre.
4. O'Connell St to Dublin St is 82km.

He asked for ballpark. He got ballpark. Not pedantic attempts at cent accurate predictions.

n97 mini

He got ballpark, but more by accident. One mistake offset an other.

L1011

Your attempt at being accurate missed the critical words "round trip", so as it's failed pedantry I don't think you've got much position to lecture on justified mistakes.

n97 mini

L1011 wrote: »

Your attempt at being accurate missed the critical words "round trip", so as it's failed pedantry I don't think you've got much position to lecture on justified mistakes.

If there is a mistake in my post, point it out.

Everyone knows a round trip is a single trip multiplied by 2.

L1011

n97 mini wrote: »

If there is a mistake in my post, point it out.

Everyone knows a round trip is a single trip multiplied by 2.

Either you're arguing that 164km is too far from 170 to use in a rough calculation or your last point was a case of thinking it was a single direction trip. More pedantry wouldn't surprise me though.

Victor

viamichelin.com suggests


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Summary of the route

Dublin – Dundalk
M1

Costs
11.56 € with a Petrol vehicle
Toll 1.90 € | Petrol 9.66 €

Time
01h16 with 00h45 on motorways

Distance
84 km with 71 km on motorways

n97 mini

L1011 wrote: »

your last point was a case of thinking it was a single direction trip.

No, that's what you think my point was. You're just peeved I corrected your mistakes.

Victor

Put away the handbags folks.

Banjaxed82 wrote: »

how much (ball park) petrol money to do a round trip in a VW Golf?

Cheers

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