MR PANDY
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Wot make of petrol doe s everbody use and which gives best m.p.g.
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robjnr
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Wot make of petrol doe s everbody use and which gives best m.p.g.
I always use vpower,
doctorchris
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I recommend, for your 1.1 Active, that you buy the cheapest fuel that you can find.
In my opinion, expensive branded fuel will not make a scrap of difference to performance or economy.
Register here to find the cheapest fuel in your area
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In my opinion, expensive branded fuel will not make a scrap of difference to performance or economy.
Register here to find the cheapest fuel in your area
http://www.petrolprices.com/
KozmoNaut
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Just follow the recommendation in the manual, ie. 95 octane.
Anything less will give you marginally less power and worse mileage, anything more will just be a waste of money.
Anything less will give you marginally less power and worse mileage, anything more will just be a waste of money.
I don't think you can get any less than 95 octane at petrol stations in the UK?
I always go for branded petrol (non-supermarket petrol). It's not just the octane rating that may be different but also the additives. Optimax did make a noticable difference (don't know whether it was any faster or more economical though) on my old car, but I couldn't see a difference when I tried it on my 100HP.
At last I have managed to get the wife to use the Texaco garage just around the corner..prices are down again at the mo and its cheaper than sainsbury..so why use supermarket tat when the good stuff is actually nearer home.. :bang:
You know it makes sense..
But I cant get necter points darling..:bang:
:bang:You know it makes sense..
But I cant get necter points darling..:bang:
At last I have managed to get the wife to use the Texaco garage just around the corner..prices are down again at the mo and its cheaper than sainsbury..so why use supermarket tat when the good stuff is actually nearer home..
You know it makes sense..
But I cant get necter points darling..:bang:
I use Texaco and Sainsburys as well
Get SWMBO to get a 'Star Rewards' card, then you can get points from Texaco
Trev
has anyone had any proven good results from the new Shell petrol? I think I must have got some a few days before the official release (they can't have filled all the petrol stations up the night before surely) as my mileage did seem to increase. They claim 1 litre in 50 or 2%. On my 42mpg in the C4 that's only 0.8 mpg extra so tricky to tell. Of course the official release was around school holiday time when my mpg shoots up anyway.
I use Texaco and Sainsburys as well
Get SWMBO to get a 'Star Rewards' card, then you can get points from Texaco
Trev
http://www.starrewards.co.uk/ Ta for that Trev..I will show her the link and stand well back ..
Since when
Didn't know they'd brought it in yet, I know they been banging on about it for ages.
Wonder if they'll improve Vpower as no point in filling with that if normal unleaded is becoming just a good.
School holidays!Since when
I can now sail past schools without interruption.
Until I get to Marlborough where the nobby college is running a summer school :bang:
robjnr
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Nothing to do with with thread but I worked on that college!
There are more people on the roads around mine, the disadvantage of school holidays and living in an area that relies on tourism
We use Tesco alot , but I think the MPG is slightly better with branded petrol , mostlt Texaco round here. Check my Fuelly page for details.
http://www.fuelly.com/driver/gareth111278/panda
Less Traffic??, Not if you live in a tourist area! I was just showing my daughter that we are 1.4 MPG down from June to July due to all the traffic in town & on the road into town.:bang: Can't wait for them all to go back to Birmingham :yuck:, i.e. anywhere East of Shrewsbury!
http://www.fuelly.com/driver/gareth111278/panda
Less Traffic??, Not if you live in a tourist area!
I was just showing my daughter that we are 1.4 MPG down from June to July due to all the traffic in town & on the road into town.:bang: Can't wait for them all to go back to Birmingham :yuck:, i.e. anywhere East of Shrewsbury!
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We use Tesco alot , but I think the MPG is slightly better with branded petrol , mostlt Texaco round here. Check my Fuelly page for details.
http://www.fuelly.com/driver/gareth111278/panda
I was just showing my daughter that we are 1.4 MPG
I don't think loosing 1.4mpg is anything to cry about mate, probably only a few pennys
Yeah but there's bleeding lost grockles (with Sat Navs leading them anywhere) and road hogging tractors still :bang: can you tell I've been out for a drive ?
doctorchris
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Send your tourists up to lovely Alston and Weardale. It's meant to be a tourist area but I drove through yesterday and it was dead, with most places shut. Lovely place to drive a little car like the Panda, too, as all the roads are windy and narrow.Less Traffic??, Not if you live in a tourist area!
Certainly a lot less traffic in Manchester. However Manchester is basically a student city, it has more students than Oxford and Cambridge combined.
All the mancs have ***** off to Anglesey and other parts of Wales, the students have all gone home to mummy and daddy trying to kick their cocaine addiction and the manc chavs have all gone off to Turkey. Its great I can get 3 miles down the road without stopping at any lights.
All the mancs have ***** off to Anglesey and other parts of Wales, the students have all gone home to mummy and daddy trying to kick their cocaine addiction and the manc chavs have all gone off to Turkey. Its great I can get 3 miles down the road without stopping at any lights.
