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29 December 2011, 10:32 AM
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£10 gets you about a gallon and a half so you'd have to be getting 60mpg to do that. Think you're being a tad optimistic there chap
At £1.34 a litre you're getting 1.6 gallons, or there abouts.
there is no way that for even a sport 90 miles for £10 quid..i have a sport and for 10 quid i get about 40 miles at best and thats soft driving
29 December 2011, 11:11 AM
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FFS, you might as well say, 'I drive some miles using some fuel.' Because that is about as much as the usual, 'I get X miles for Y fuel.'
29 December 2011, 07:07 PM
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had a rather spirited drive over to stoke last night, all country roads big hills and a very strong headwind.....i did 126 miles on half a tank..and i wasnt hanging around...
29 December 2011, 11:03 PM
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there is no way that for even a sport 90 miles for £10 quid..i have a sport and for 10 quid i get about 40 miles at best and thats soft driving
Yeah ten quid should get you 45 miles if were assuming we get 30mpg just burbling about
30 December 2011, 09:44 AM
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30 December 2011, 11:49 AM
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30 December 2011, 01:09 PM
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30 December 2011, 01:29 PM
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90 miles on £10 of fuel!
30 December 2011, 01:33 PM
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That might be something to do with it. You should fill a jerry can up next time you fill your car up, reset you odometer and just drive it until it runs out of petrol, then you should see how many miles you're really getting.
Yeah and after that why not advise him to give the engine a good clean by pumping sand through it.
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r u nt sposed 2 do that then?
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sand!! cheaper than a gallon of petrol lol
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