Afternoon

A few tips i picked up from work, Sorry if im teaching you to suck eggs, but these worked for me...

Fill up in the mornings, so the petrols colder, less dense.
Also dont blast it in, pump it in slowly, on the middle speed.

I did both these an filling up to full my petrol came to £36 from around the 60 miles left mark , when i filled up the time before it was £42. so with the above i saved my self 6 smackers

Hope it works for you guys,

Tom

Can also save loads by driving slowly. I know its difficult in an st though.

ahh i thought that if u drove faster u saved more petrol? so thats where im going wrong.. drats.

My old zs was like that, Flaming sport cat

how are the prices for unleaded 95oct and unleaded 100oct at your countries?

Here in greece in euro currency 95 is around 1.25/lit (0.9875/lit gbp),and 100 oct about 1.50/lit. (1.185/lit gbp)

95 is about £1.20/lit not sure on super

Havn't bought any for ages as i drive a smelly diesel now. Thats £1.32 at my local

lot of people now driving slowly and not revs it enought but that won't save u petrol and also damaged ur engine in the long term so just drive normaly and floor it when needed

I can't see how froth can cost £6 sorry.

I'm not having a pop but I can't grasp it, sorry.

This is the email i got anyway..


>>> Only buy or fill up your car in the early morning when the ground
>>> temperature is still cold..
>>>
>>> Remember that all Service Stations have their storage tanks buried
>>> beneath the ground. The colder the ground the more dense the
>>> fuel. When it gets warmer petrol expands, so buying in the
>>> afternoon or evening .......... your litre is not exactly a litre.
>>> In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature
>>> of the petrol, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum
>>> products play an important role. A one degree rise in temperature
>>> is a big deal in this business but the Service Stations do not have
>>> temperature compensation at the pumps.
>>>
>>> When you are filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to
>>> a fast mode.
>>>
>>> If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages; low,
>>> middle and high. In slow mode you should be pumping on low speed,
>>> thereby minimising the vapours that are created while you are
>>> pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapour return. If you you
>>> are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes into your
>>> tank becomes vapour. Those vapours are being sucked up and back
>>> into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for
>>> your money.
>>>
>>> One of the most important tips is to fill up when your tank is HALF
>>> FULL.
>>>
>>> The reason for this is, the more fuel you have in you tank, the less
>>> air occupying its empty space. Petrol evaporates faster than you
>>> can imagine. Petroleum storage tanks have an internal floating
>>> roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between petrol and the
>>> atmosphere, so it minimises the evaporation. Unlike Service
>>> Stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature
>>> compensated so that every litre is actually the exact amount.
>>>
>>> Another reminder. If there is a fuel truck pumping into storage
>>> tanks when you stop to buy, DO NOT FILL UP. Most likely the
>>> petrol/diesel is being stirred up as the fuel is being delivered and
>>> you might pick up some dirt that normally settles on the bottom.
>>>
>>> Hope this will help you get the most value for your money. Remer
>>> to always fill your car when the tank shows 'half'. Always fill up
>>> in the early morning. Always fill up in slow mode.

As the fuel is taken from underground, the outside temp shouldn't make any difference.
Take a wine cellar for instance, why is it underground?
Because the temperature doesn't vary, it's always cool.
The petrol pump delivers the goodies at such a rate that it won't have a chance to warm up and give you the wrong ammount. (how deep are they burried?)
Oh and colder = more dense... aka more mass for your volume

Besides the pumps have to be callibrated independantly by law, otherwise who's to say you're getting 1/2 a litre let alone a full litre?

Petrol does evaporate but isn't your fuel tank a closed system?
Hense when you open it up sometimes it hisses at you, if it wasn't closed then you'd loose your petrol at an alarming rate and it could never hiss.

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tesco are dropping 10p off a litre of unleaded! happy days lol

I also heard Tesco's was dropping the price of their petrol, is it Deffo?????????

hope so, drove past my local morrisons and it was at £113.9p

Lets see if all the other petrol stations follow suit???