Fuel fill up to max?

[snorri]

. It made me realise just how much I dislike visits to the petrol station.

Where else would you pick up a rose for that romantic evening?

 

[Drago]

Where else would you pick up a rose for that romantic evening?

Or a refreshing beer for the journey home?

 

[KneesUp]

That post turned out to be eerily prophetic, I just filled the tank to the brim yesterday and today they tell me that to repair that funny noise will cost £900 but they could give me £1000 against a replacement.
Decisions decisions

Arse! What's making the funny noise? At that price I'm guessing it's the turbo?

 

[KneesUp]

In other news, I brimmed the car today.

 

[mustang1]

To the brim, then treat half full as empty, so never low on fuel.

I do this when I'm on vacation abroad.

 

[mustang1]

[QUOTE 5325228, member: 9609"]and the rapidly increasing cost of fuel would suggest your money is best kept in your tank, although I suspect the extra rolling resistance due to the weight increase would work out a little more.


typically 40% of your fuel goes on rolling resistance, so an extra 30kg of fuel in a vehicle weighing 1200kg =2.5%, 40% of 2.5% =1% ~ 8000 mile per annum at 50mpg (£1.25 a litre) so that extra fuel is may be costing you £9 year to pointlessly haul about. not much really - BUT - if all 30 million cars on our roads were doing that then that works out at an astonishing 500,000 tons of CO2 pointlessly being created. (which is about the same CO2 savings of over a 100 wind turbines))[/QUOTE]

I'm no physics major but I think that bit in bold seems dubious so any inference from its calculation is probably not correct (probably, because there is a chance one can attain the correct answer but by using incorrect maths, just by chance).

 

[Andrew_P]

More to the point why does anyone use motorway petrol stations? £1.49 on M23 £12 extra per tank. I assume transport companies dont pay that as often see them using them.

I fill it up and have been known to test the distance to as little as two miles left.

 

[mustang1]

All that torque for a split second, then it's gone. All that noise. All that smell. All that filth from the tailpipe.

James Bond never drove a diesel. Thomas Magnum's Ferrari wasn't a diesel. Donald Trump doesn't get chauffeur driven round in a Massey Fergusson

But the torque returns when the next gear is engaged.

 

[snorri]

Arse! What's making the funny noise? At that price I'm guessing it's the turbo?

Not the turbo, I would have remembered a 5 letter word, it was much more technical than that, something around the back wheels.

 

[Drago]

Dead ped wrapped around the rear axle?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Or a refreshing beer for the journey home?

And someone will approach you with a rose whilst you enjoy the essential hydration.

 

[snorri]

Dead ped wrapped around the rear axle?

More likely to be a dead seal where I've been driving.

 

[Drago]

But the torque returns when the next gear is engaged.

For a split second...

 

[SpokeyDokey]

For such a simple question this thread has some serious mileage in it.

 

[Stephenite]

Don't be fuelish!