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[Craig_R]

How Much Is it to fill a tank at todays petrol prices ?

I know mine is missing 2 pots and runs on LPG but at 7 pence a mile on a long run if its £60 to fill an omega tank ill get something about 860 miles to 60 quid I think ill stick to LPG

[fuz1903]

Average since 7/12/02 23.82mpg
max on one tank 386 miles
max 30.53mpg on one tank
min 18.15mpg on one tank

Sad I have it all on a spread sheet!!

[The Barge Captain]

Empties it far too quickly  

[fuz1903]

14,500 litres
£12,400
16p/mile
84.7p/litre

since 12/2002

[amba]

Totally agree with calculations at 16 per mile..doesn,t sound that horrible at that figure but then ...5 miles per litre at 90p then 25 miles at 5 litres..starts to get nasty as I do between 150/180 miles a day..so that is nearer £30=00 a day..think I will stop that calculation and have a drink to steady nerves..who started this anyway ??

[fuz1903]

currently 20p/mile at 96.9p/litre

Have a bad back to thank for avoiding a 190mile round trip commute. 5 days a week that would have been approx 45,600 miles or £9,120.00 for the year contract. :-/

[Craig_R]

You should be converting to LPG with miles like that in a year if you did do it you would save just under £6000

I worked out the cost for me to do those miles and it was £3192 big saving on £9120.

The reason I went for LPG was because the job i had when i got the car was an 800 mile a week drive to work and back and i worked the savings out to be on LPG about £3800 a year over petrol and that was just for the commute not anyother driving

[fuz1903]

What sort of cost to convert and is there any loss of performance?

[Craig_R]

Off the top of my head about 800 DIY and 2000 by a garage. with the newer systems not really much loss Martin Is The LPG man he does DIY converstions on his cars.

I bought my 2000 w reg Megga with LPG 62k on the clock for 2,500 but my LPG system is an old Mixer Type not an injector type like the newer systems

[Martin_1962]

SGI kits are around 4 £600 - £700 6 £700 - £800

You then need to fit.

Professional fitting you are looking at £1500 - £1600 for a 4, £1600-£1800 for a 6

Making room for the evaporator is the difficult bit

[PaulW]

I've done about 320miles to 3/4 a tank before now, Liverpool -> Macclesfield -> Amesbury -> London

Average speed was about 80mph, got caught in a few traffic snarlups too, and also a slight detour for a quick rest stop.

[luv_my_mv6]

I get about 360mpg, only when the light start flashing.  My driving is stop and go through towns for 40 a day then messing on the highway about 70mph-???90??? and get the lower end of 300ish, thats on and off with S-mode. Never have on T/C.

Now thats what I call fuel economy  

[Crazydad]

I roughly average about 30MPG although it`s nothing but motorway all the way to work, and with mad german mercedes drivers all over the roads, i tend to put them in their place.......behing me
 i only fill up for 50 quid a time so it does`nt matter to me anyway

[jack2uk]

I had a round trip journey to London (400 miles)last weekend and managed to get about 35 mpg still had about 15 litres left in the tank. Around town usually get about 25 mpg.