How Many miles does your car do for 10£

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Rial_e30
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:21 pm

I just want to know how man miles for 10£ does your car do.
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:26 pm

About 60 on petrol and just over 100 on LPG. :D
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:27 pm

My old 320i would do about 12 on a tenner's fuel, maybe 14 or 15 at current prices.
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around 50 (m20/b25)
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Around 40 miles on shortish journeys, 50 miles on longer motorway cruises (Tech 2 Megasquirted 325i Sport).
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:45 pm

over 100

You dont want to know what i drive
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:46 pm

Cloud wrote:My old 320i would do about 12 on a tenner's fuel, maybe 14 or 15 at current prices.
your joking rite :eek:
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:49 pm

Alex wrote:over 100

You dont want to know what i drive
new citroen C1 @ 67.9mpg
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:50 pm

Sanchez wrote:
Alex wrote:over 100

You dont want to know what i drive
new citroen C1 @ 67.9mpg
1.0 corsa
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Alex wrote:
Cloud wrote:My old 320i would do about 12 on a tenner's fuel, maybe 14 or 15 at current prices.
your joking rite :eek:
Nope. It had problems.
Even with the 62ltr tank, I couldn't get from Exeter to Bristol (79 miles) without filling it up.
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1.0 CORSA :P

I get about 20 from mine
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ImysE30 wrote:1.0 CORSA :P

I get about 20 from mine
must be broken then or mine runs very lean which wouldnt supprise me
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Alex wrote:
ImysE30 wrote:1.0 CORSA :P

I get about 20 from mine
must be broken then or mine runs very lean which wouldnt supprise me
I don't drive a corsa btw, 320 cab and 1.4 civic
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:lol: i missread it, sounds like you have one :mad:
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Cloud wrote:
Alex wrote:
Cloud wrote:My old 320i would do about 12 on a tenner's fuel, maybe 14 or 15 at current prices.
your joking rite :eek:
Nope. It had problems.
That empties your wallet quicker than a woman.
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Cloud wrote:
Alex wrote:
Cloud wrote:My old 320i would do about 12 on a tenner's fuel, maybe 14 or 15 at current prices.
your joking rite :eek:
Nope. It had problems.
Even with the 62ltr tank, I couldn't get from Exeter to Bristol (79 miles) without filling it up.
in your case you could have put an m70 v12 in there for economy :mad:
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I bought a 325i, at cost of more than two and a half grand, since it was the cheaper option.
Sanchez wrote:That empties your wallet quicker than a woman.
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ImysE30 wrote:1.0 CORSA :P

I get about 20 from mine
What do you expect from a missing cylinder winkeye
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I don't own a Corsa, i was refering to Alex and his apparent reluctance to to write in bigger font that he had one :P
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ShepsEvo3 wrote:
ImysE30 wrote:1.0 CORSA :P

I get about 20 from mine
What do you expect from a missing cylinder winkeye
i prefer to think of it as half a v6 :wink:

it strangley sounds a little like a small v6 :mad:
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Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:12 am

my e46 m3 will do about 80 miles to £10 of petrol... :D
and thats driving like a prat..
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Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:19 am

I get around 50 from a tenner.

I have a 316i Touring
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Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:28 am

rossle wrote:my e46 m3 will do about 80 miles to £10 of petrol... :D
and thats driving like a prat..
Bro are you sure about that. Not trying to say your lien but my mate has a 318 and it does like 40 to 10£
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cheap petrol in guernsey mate! :D
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Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:32 am

rossle wrote:cheap petrol in guernsey mate! :D
I wonder if you could but it into large 15 gallon drums and send it over to the UK mainland...
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Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:36 am

oh i thought you was in UK. Well my cousin in Middle East gets a full tank with £6 with a Lexus GS460 and hes 22 years old
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Cloud wrote:
rossle wrote:cheap petrol in guernsey mate! :D
I wonder if you could but it into large 15 gallon drums and send it over to the UK mainland...
haha, we pay our road tax on our petrol now, about a year ago it was just over 50p a liter... now its just under 80p a liter for premium. with road tax..
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m40 - I get about 70
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My Alpina looks at a £10 and laughs and gulps it up :(
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Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:01 am

Wouldn't know, Its one of my bug bears actually watching people (or more rightly queue behind) people who put in anything less than £20!

Always puts me off a for sale car too if the dash photos show petrol needle in the red, if the owner is too tight to pop in a good few quid for test drives and alike then what else have they skimped on.

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march109 wrote:Wouldn't know, Its one of my bug bears actually watching people (or more rightly queue behind) people who put in anything less than £20!
That boils my p155 too. :cheese:
Even though I rarely run on petrol, I always put 5 gallons in.
TBH, the whole "How far can you get on a tenner?" thing annoys me. Only putting small amounts of fuel in is false economy. It's certainly no way to calculate fuel consumption. :roll: The only reason I know how far my car goes on a tenner is because one of my regular calculations is cost per mile.
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march109 wrote:Wouldn't know, Its one of my bug bears actually watching people (or more rightly queue behind) people who put in anything less than £20!
That boils my p155 too. :cheese:
Even though I rarely run on petrol, I always put 5 gallons in.
TBH, the whole "How far can you get on a tenner?" thing annoys me. Only putting small amounts of fuel in is false economy. It's certainly no way to calculate fuel consumption. :roll: The only reason I know how far my car goes on a tenner is because one of my regular calculations is cost per mile.
Thank fcuk its not just me who gets cheesed off at this!
I rarely put anything less than 1/2 tank in but cant put more than 50 litres in, as the o-rings that seal the pump are cracked and leak if i fill the tank. I'm reeeet council I am (althought i have just spent £130odd quid on practically nothing at my local stealers, so I'm not ALL council!) It's on my list of things to do on my week off anyway!
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Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:22 pm

I was just woundring how many miles to expect. As ive filled up my car last Monday with £50 petrol and now its sunday and am left on the quarter Line
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