Spending too much on petrol?

Impossible to calculate how much you are using w/o a starting point like miles per week exactly and how much is on your fuel tank. My auntie has one of these and says it seems heavy enough 30-35mpg at best.

Let tank run to a certain point like exactly 1/2 or 1/4 and reset the trip computer then drive car until it says it's at the same reading on fuel gauge/trip computer readout under miles remaining (until empty) and work it out from there.

Im suprised the tank takes €120 tbh my Focus is completely brimmed with around €80

55 Litre on the 2005 MK2 1.6 inline 4 anyway, so i would be checking your fuel tank for holes.

It's very hard to fix a pump like that though as there would be way inside the first day as people would know quickly enough what was going on. The mk2 focus has a large enough reserve in that relatively small 55l tank it's something like 10l or so, i have often filled mine when it's at 20 miles until empty and it won't take more than 43-44l and when i hop in the car it's past full on the needle.

€120 to fill the tank seems just wrong to me. I would guess the Focus has a 60 litre tank. It may be smaller but I would be very very surprised, shocked in fact if it was any bigger capacity a tank.

At a price of €1.60 per litre (its currently circa €1.53 per litre locally here) and assuming the tank was bone dry when going into the filling station (which we know is unlikely to happen much in reality) then it would take €96 to fill the tank.

Supergurrier wrote: »

Let tank run to a certain point like exactly 1/2 or 1/4 and reset the trip computer then drive car until it says it's at the same reading on fuel gauge/trip computer readout under miles remaining (until empty) and work it out from there.

Unfortunately fuel guages and range computers are so often grossly inaccurate Supergurrier. I think the best way is to brim the car and reset the trip computer. Wait until the fuel light comes on again and pay heed to how many litres it takes to brim it and also pay heed to the distance covered as per trip computer.

Calculation should not be too difficult for most people from there but if you are not a modern European citizen like me you will most likely need to convert kilometres to miles and most definately the litres to gallons.

lisademps wrote: »

One example from this week was 375KM for E50. I will wait till its completely empty and reset the tripometer.

KM/€ is no good, as pump prices vary quite a lot.

You don't have to run it dry.

I still reckon start from a full tank, and note the mileage. Then when you fill again (you don't have to empty it completely) you know exactly how many litres you've put in, and how many km you've done since it was last full. This gives you an accurate km/l figure, and you can then compare with other figures that people/internet may give you.

The amount of times I've seen threads like this amazes me. It should be part of the theory test to calculate MPG or L/100Km, not this "my car does x miles on €20"

When I had the Mondeo it'd take 62l from empty despite it having a "58l tank".

I'd be lucky to get 400 miles from a tank on average mixed driving which is about 30 mpg.

look, if you have a smartphone get an app for your mpg, i use roadtrip lite, its free, easy to use.

its on android and ios.

Jonty wrote: »

The amount of times I've seen threads like this amazes me. It should be part of the theory test to calculate MPG or L/100Km, not this "my car does x miles on €20"

OP is even better, as he says E120 of petrol is sufficient for a week.

I love some people's mathematical skills.

I have 1.4 focus and from empty it would take max €70-80 to brim it.

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

I remember someone telling me she goes to BP because you get more in the tank so you have to stop less often!

I was doing exactly the same thing (going to BP because I was getting more fuel there so I had to stop less often).



However it was LPG I was filling up, and for some reason while on most stations my take could take about 27 litres, on BP there was 30 coming into the tank.

Bpmull wrote: »

I've yet to put anymore than 45 litres of fuel in my focus. Although I don't drive around on the light. It would still be impossible for ops tank to actually hold 120 euro of petrol. Op if I was you I'd go to a different petrol station brim the car with petrol zero the trip drive till 1/2 1/4 tank whatever fill it again. Take note of the reading on the trip and the LITRES used not cost to brim. And from there it's really only trivial basic maths to work out mpg L/100km which ever you prefere.

It's almost as simple as spelling.

Alanstrainor wrote: »

From googling around the tank should be in and around 55 litres. Unless there's a hole in it i reckon you're not putting as much as you think into it.

Surely if he can overfill it by about 50% in one go, it'd be pissing out of the car. There's no way you'd miss that.