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I just put £36 in mine and look where the gauge is :eek:

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what do you drive? a P&O ferry?
 
you must have something massive! My parents get a full tank for £80 on both an old Landrover Defender 110 and a Ford Maverick GLX Diesel....


Or the gauge is broken :D
 
Gremlin said:
I just put £36 in mine and look where the gauge is :eek:

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It's what getting screwed is all about, the poor get poorer and the bankers get richer..:|
 
lawrenceots said:
you must have something massive! My parents get a full tank for £80 on both an old Landrover Defender 110 and a Ford Maverick GLX Diesel....


Or the gauge is broken :D
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Or it is a guage that stops at the position it is in when the ignition is switched off and doesn't move until turned on again.
 
I reckon its a Golf :)
 
Ford - Focus?escort?
 
I reckon it's a VW Golf and that pic is either before you put petrol in, or just after and it's a slow/faulty guage :)

If you want to compare notes feel free to come and fill my car up for me. :D
 
That will teach you...

The petrol filler on the Golf is near the back on the offside. Putting the petrol in the radiator just won't push the needle up the fuel gauge:)
 
It's saying something when the tank of fuel is worth more than the car.
 
tdodd said:
It's saying something when the tank of fuel is worth more than the car.
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:razz: pmsl

Well just been to wisley and the tank has refilled itself Hmmmm :thinking:


Ok seriously it is a golf and it has an ism, I always fill uo to the next pound, and sometimes as you drive home the petrol guage mysteriously goes down, then as the tank empties it goes up again,oddd just wish it would do that when it really is empty
 
our mk4 golf is the same, if you slightly overfill it it sits at empty until it's been run a bit and you restart it.
 
Gremlin said:
:razz: pmsl

Well just been to wisley and the tank has refilled itself Hmmmm :thinking:


Ok seriously it is a golf and it has an ism, I always fill uo to the next pound, and sometimes as you drive home the petrol guage mysteriously goes down, then as the tank empties it goes up again,oddd just wish it would do that when it really is empty
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Seen any men in robes with long hair recently?:)
 
A few weeks ago there was a news story that was 2 years old involving a BP petrol station, they played the footage showing the forecourt and I was shocked to see the Diesel pump showed 89.9

When it goes up 1p and 2p it creeps up on you but I was genuinely shocked to see it'd gone up by 40p a litre in 2 years, that's a rise of £1.80 a gallon
 
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...on-Shells-UK-refinery/articleshow/7322666.cms

^ adds a twist to things regards fuel, prices, etc...

Quoting from the article:

MUMBAI: Essar Energy is in advanced talks to acquire Royal Dutch Shell's Stanlow refinery in UK.....
No doubt fuel blokades will start there, or something similar by the workers and those who depend on that place for their livelihood. If it does happen it would be a bit of a bit of a twist on the blockades from nearly a decade ago. But, with the way fuel prices have escalated of late it could/would start a domino effect dressed up as being 'out in sympathy of those at Stanlow'; (but) really a way to show protest on current barrel prices & UK Gov't levied tax on the stuff (which is then subject to VAT).

''Shell, on the other hand, wants to reduce its interest in the refining business because of weaker demand for oil products and declining profit margins in Europe. ''
No ****** Sherlock!
 
Derv is EUR 1.17 / L (£1.00) and unleaded is EUR 1.37 / L (£1.17) over here......if you send me some Jerry Cans, I'll fill them up and send them back.

Bob

Probably not a good time to mention that there's no road tax here (it's included in the price of the fuel) :)
 
I'd sooner pay £3 a litre than live in France ;)
 
Canon Bob

I was only joking about living in France, the way things are going here i'm going to be an economic refugee heading anywhere :lol:

I was just watching the breakfast news, they showed a petrol forecourt and the price on the sign for diesel was £145.9, surely nowhere is charging that much :eek:
 
wack61 said:
I was just watching the breakfast news, they showed a petrol forecourt and the price on the sign for diesel was £145.9, surely nowhere is charging that much :eek:
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A hundred and forty five pounds per litre? That is planned for next year :)
 
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Is fuel expensive???

1l of water at a service station - £1.60 odd - fuel £1.30 odd. Am willing to bet that the process of drilling for oil, converting to petrol and the like must be more complex and expensive that water?
 
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