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Old 20-08-2013, 01:28 PM   #1
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Default Just had to fill my tank Aghhh...

Just had to fill my tank Aghhh...
I haven't had to fill up with petrol since 2006.
I use to get some everynow and then to help run my dual fuel AU.
But now I'm 'straight' again I filled up a gas tank to the brim for the first time in a while. When payed I needed 2 $50 notes and not that much change came back.
Bugger I'm use to handing over $30..
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I wish petrol came out of my self!
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Get a good exhaust and it dulls the pain.
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I'm thinking of starting a Xmas clucb to buy fuel.
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$30 for gas?????
Its nearly $50 here in Adelaide
Gas is freakin 85 cents a litre WTF

I happy I'm back to petrol
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I know how you feel. I've just had to drive back from Melbourne on petrol, it's the first time since 2006 that I've had to fill a petrol tank. Thank god the car will be getting the gas system from my other Sportsman put on by the end of the week. Oh, just in case you're confused, I just went and picked up a second Sportsman that I got Kristo to pick up for me. I flew to Melbourne yesterday morning and picked it up. I just arrived home back on the EP this evening, 1400km and $200 worth of petrol later.

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UK, I missed what you have bought? Photos or thread? Please point me in the right direction.

Ptff - change from two 50s. Try filling with >$1.70 98 Octane. 2 x 50s + a bit!

Chin up Ken. The exhaust note is worth it!

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Ptff - change from two 50s. Try filling with >$1.70 98 Octane. 2 x 50s + a bit!

Chin up Ken. The exhaust note is worth it!

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try here Stu http://www.fordforums.com.au/showpos...&postcount=145

And anyone who feels the urge to whine about fuel prices can move to the bush for a while. I'm currently funding my bank managers vacation in the Bahamas.
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Not whining re fuel prices, rather types of fuel. I think we should have a reverse rebate now for petrol.
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Can't beat a V8, Even if it does cost a bit more to run. I very rarely even use my stereo now that I have a V8...I prefer to listen to that sweet V8 note.
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V8s sound just as good on BBQ juice as petrol...
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Geez UK, you could have bought a bog standard 6cyl AU and plugged this into the Cig lighter...... Instant V8!!

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Just got back from overseas, $2.50 per litre 95 octane is the lowest ron.
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Actually having a v8 and a six myself i find my driving style in the 8 has changed a bit,
i find myself cruising extra smoothly all while enjoying smugly ............that burble moving off from the lights in the v8 and getting pretty fair economy , that standard V8 burble is worth 5 litres per hundred k's so really we are getting like close to ford focus economy.......... you guys with the higher specced XR8/GS/GT must be getting better than prius economy !
you must be ecstatic UK !!! .
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Yes I am ecstatic for having that sound for $6000.
I wonder what the car would sound like with this thing on and a real V8?
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Try owning an explorer. 320km last tank. Took 77 litres to fill (it has 85 capacity but may not have been quite full previous time, so fuel economy is not that bad - we actually get about 20l/100km) @$1.55 a litre for E10 blend. So that was your 2 fiddies and a lobster! And we'll have to do the same next week. Oh well......the sound is worth it.
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Poor baby. Sell the explorer and get an AU
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Y'all musn't drive too much because i'd imagine owning a six or eight on petrol in the 21st century would bleed you dry before long!

Personally i'm still annoyed that I can't reasonably fill up and pay with coins...
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I've put 12k on my TS50 this year alone, drive it 3-4 times a week of metro driving at an average 18L/100km.

End of the day we need to live within our means, I don't spend money on a significant other or go out drinking like in my Uni days, so I can afford to put petrol in the car and enjoy it
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And you're right, each to their own, and everyone puts their finite amount of money into the things they see most important to them.

But for me, I really have problems spending more than $10/100klms. Perhaps because as much of an enjoyment driving is, only about 3% of the time am I actually enjoying the car, the other 97% I'm purely commuting and spending too much time worrying about other drivers and mr plod to actually be able to enjoy my car.
Where you drive, what you drive, when you drive and how you drive and how honest you are with yourself all make big differences with how much of your hard earned you're prepared to give away to some of the worst corporations on the planet.
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I'm with you Mr Hardware, any more than $10/100km and I start to cringe.
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Yes, mate, I've seen the way you drive. LOL! I'm sure you and the Mrs could lower the consumption somewhat with a slightly lighter right foot!

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I've got two responses to catch up with here . . .
1/ I've just returned from a road trip BNE-ADL-PER-ADL-BNE, and the cheapest petrol for the entire trip was in outback NSW, around Parkes and the like. Was about 25c per litre cheaper than BNE, the most expensive capitol city in Australia to buy petrol.

and 2/ My question is, "Why fill up?", I always (unless driving long distance) just fill to about half a tank. I don't want to spend a significant amount of fuel simply lugging the full tank around, all the while reducing your performance as well. Do you realize how much a full tank of fuel weighs?

Pulling in to top-up more regularly is not a problem, which I mostly do in the late evenings or early mornings, when the fuel is cool-in-the-ground, and I get more fuel for my money.
That's because the local service station pumps do not adjust the volume delivered for temperature variations, which means when the fuel slightly warms up, it expands and you don't get the correct volume of fuel you pay for.
So, don't refuel in the heat of the day (or early evening), or as/shortly after the fuel company tanker has delivered a new load of (warm) fuel.

Why do you think jet airliners calculate very carefully the amount of fuel they carry, it costs to carry to much!

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1/ the cheapest petrol for the entire trip was in outback NSW, around Parkes and the like. Was about 25c per litre cheaper than BNE, the most expensive capitol city in Australia to buy petrol.
Hmm, I've been driving up the Newell daily for the last 10 years and Parkes is not and has never been cheaper... especially by not by 25c. !!

The cheapest fuel on the Newell would be Gondiwindi.

According to AAA, Brisbane is consistently the 4th most expensive (behind Darwin, Hobart and the ACT.)
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