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Post by Karl on Jan 10, 2015 10:26:07 GMT 1
Round here supermarket prices
Petrol £1.05 diesel £1.11
Wonder how much more it will drop ? Not been these prices for a long time
It's funny we've not had many complaints of poor mpg in recent months
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Post by Noberator on Jan 10, 2015 11:02:56 GMT 1
Round here supermarket prices Petrol £1.05 diesel £1.11 Wonder how much more it will drop ? Not been these prices for a long time It's funny we've not had many complaints of poor mpg in recent months I filled the ST up yesterday £1.069p/ltr (50 litres)=£53.45 Cheapest it's cost me for a long time. It was £1.119p/ltr just before Xmas and £1.299p/ltr in July 2014. I recon it'll come down to near a £1.00/ltr before long.   |
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Post by french crap fanatic on Jan 10, 2015 11:30:57 GMT 1
Yes it was nice to fill up the beast and still have left over from a £100!
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Post by chippie on Jan 10, 2015 11:58:16 GMT 1
While it's good for transport costs not good for businesses .....
Even though I retired in July, I took a short term job in contracting.....Just before Christmas, the company I'm working for announced that due to falling oil prices, they were having to cut costs....contract staff have a 5% pay cut enforced on them.....that equates to around £40 a week to me
But at the end of the day,I'm glad fuel has come down at long last......I guess we enjoy it while it lasts...
Not that I'm suspicious but is this a sweetener before the general election in May?
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Post by rhyds on Jan 10, 2015 12:20:58 GMT 1
Not that I'm suspicious but is this a sweetener before the general election in May? The UK government can control fuel duty rates, but this fall is down to the *world* oil price dropping. |
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Post by Noberator on Jan 10, 2015 12:47:24 GMT 1
While it's good for transport costs not good for businesses ..... Even though I retired in July, I took a short term job in contracting.....Just before Christmas, the company I'm working for announced that due to falling oil prices, they were having to cut costs....contract staff have a 5% pay cut enforced on them.....that equates to around £40 a week to me But at the end of the day,I'm glad fuel has come down at long last......I guess we enjoy it while it lasts... Not that I'm suspicious but is this a sweetener before the general election in May? Even with a £40 a week cut (which isn't nice for anyone) your still IMO on a good weekly wage.  |
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Post by Joepublic on Jan 10, 2015 13:04:28 GMT 1
It must be crippling Russia.........................
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Post by minimatt on Jan 10, 2015 15:34:59 GMT 1
Another good reason to own a petrol car unless you do high millage, i have noticed the difference beetween petrol and diesel is now 6-8 pence when a few months ago it was more like 4-6 (usually 4),i read somewhere you need to do 12k a year in a diesel to save anything,guess its more like 13 plus now.
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Post by chippie on Jan 10, 2015 16:25:23 GMT 1
Not that I'm suspicious but is this a sweetener before the general election in May? The UK government can control fuel duty rates, but this fall is down to the *world* oil price dropping. Yup, I realise that but I'm sure the govt will try and use the price reduction to bolster their efforts for re election..... |
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Post by Joepublic on Jan 10, 2015 18:29:47 GMT 1
Another good reason to own a petrol car unless you do high millage, i have noticed the difference beetween petrol and diesel is now 6-8 pence when a few months ago it was more like 4-6 (usually 4),i read somewhere you need to do 12k a year in a diesel to save anything,guess its more like 13 plus now. So 6-8% more expensive? I've owned a Golf V5 estate that did 31mpg over 2 years of ownership, a Skoda Octavia 1.8T estate that did 33mpg over 12 months of ownership and currently own a Golf tdi estate for coming up to 3 years that averages 49mpg over that time. All 3 cars share the same basic platform so the diesel is 30 - 40% better on fuel than the petrols so you don't need to do 13K miles to see a saving, road tax is cheaper too |
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Post by minimatt on Jan 12, 2015 22:24:17 GMT 1
Its possible that the article i read this in was basing the figures on brand new cars taking into account higher purchase prices etc i cant remember, i would imagine with older used cars the difference would be less as depreciation has already started.
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Post by Karl on Jan 12, 2015 22:30:21 GMT 1
An set of diesel injectors , DMF , turbo , egr, etc...... Will quickly wipe out any fuel savings
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Post by spannermonkey on Jan 12, 2015 22:49:26 GMT 1
Got a guy round my way with an old clio dci,he's spent a fortune and replaced every part you can think of and i mean all the major stuff but ironically he'll tell you i get amazing mpg from it.
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Post by minimatt on Jan 12, 2015 23:18:42 GMT 1
An set of diesel injectors , DMF , turbo , egr, etc...... Will quickly wipe out any fuel savings Exactly,my dads x type has had two out of the four above replaced this year at approx 70,000 miles so that and the fact that he dosent do huge milages any more is why he will be replacing it and my mums focus with petrols when the time comes,i reckon its cost him over £1500 this year in repairs. |
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Post by Joepublic on Jan 13, 2015 17:00:29 GMT 1
Another good reason to own a petrol car unless you do high millage, i have noticed the difference beetween petrol and diesel is now 6-8 pence when a few months ago it was more like 4-6 (usually 4),i read somewhere you need to do 12k a year in a diesel to save anything,guess its more like 13 plus now. So 6-8% more expensive? I've owned a Golf V5 estate that did 31mpg over 2 years of ownership, a Skoda Octavia 1.8T estate that did 33mpg over 12 months of ownership and currently own a Golf tdi estate for coming up to 3 years that averages 49mpg over that time. All 3 cars share the same basic platform so the diesel is 30 - 40% better on fuel than the petrols so you don't need to do 13K miles to see a saving, road tax is cheaper too No engine work needed on any of the above cars during there time on the road with me, just normal servicing etc The V5 was purchased off ebay, the Octavia autotrader (private) the tdi estate BCA Manchester |
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