The price of fuel

[scumdog]

That's not bad, my shitty Vectra takes $95odd to fill. I bet it's not much more fuel efficient. 550kms roughly town driving/commuting. I guess you'd get about 500ish?

$157 to top up the Thunderbird a couple of week-end ago.

How much now???

[AD345]

Its over $120 just to fill the Honda

Mind you - I do run the gas allll the way down

[cheshirecat]

About three years ago my trusty Range Rover was off the road over four weeks for some trivial disaster which should have been sorted out on it's production line and I saved $500 in petrol, which I reckoned was a desposit on a bike. Sold the Rangy, kept the bike and never looked back.

[Spearfish]

Look out for those shopping fuel vouchers, they are good for 100ltrs, the car probably around 50-60ltr jerry can the rest for the bikes.
6 cents isn't much though, but the 20 cents a ltr ones are.

[MarkH]

Look out for those shopping fuel vouchers, they are good for 100ltrs, the car probably around 50-60ltr jerry can the rest for the bikes.
6 cents isn't much though, but the 20 cents a ltr ones are.

A tip from my mother:
For the really good fuel vouchers when you spend $150 at the supermarket, if you don't need $150 worth of groceries then grab a gift voucher or 2 so you can use them to buy next weeks groceries - then you get the good fuel voucher.

It's hardly worth it for me with my 13.5 litre tank, but if you are filling a car from near empty . . .

[Swoop]

the price you pay for living in a first world country like nz.

Please. Less of the "1st world" shit.
Our Banana Republic is not 1st world.

[pritch]

$157 to top up the Thunderbird a couple of week-end ago.

The other day it cost me $7.35 to fill up the SJ50. That's a record!

[axdout]

Please. Less of the "1st world" shit.
Our Banana Republic is not 1st world.

We have running water, I think this is all that's required to claim 1st world status....

[tri boy]

$157 to top up the Thunderbird a couple of week-end ago.

How much now???

Pocket knife, bit of garden hose= free gas

[Conquiztador]

do you think this will affect your riding this xmas. or up coming tours you may have had in mind.. at $2 a liter its starting to get expensive to fill the twin tanks on the 950 ..

JMJ

Nope. The K1 takes 4 litres/100k's. Let the Rego go up $1K. Increase WOF to $100. Put petrol up to $5/litre and there will be more space on the roads!

[cheshirecat]

We have running water, I think this is all that's required to claim 1st world status....

Yeah running damp through the tin roofed house

[pete376403]

I can remember the owner of a car dealership (Chryslers and Mitsubishis) I worked at confidently stating "people will never pay more than $1 per GALLON". (This back in the mid 70s)
One of the Chargers this place sold had the A84 track pack - 35 gallon tank (159 litres). Would be fun filling that today.

[Conquiztador]

Mmmmm...my old Audi (that is now sold) had a 80 litre tank. $160/fill...

[junkmanjoe]

well the price of fuel wont be a problem at the moment for my self,,,the 950 has both carbs out in pieces on the work bench....so thats not going any where in a hurry...

JMJ

[swbarnett]

It sounds a bit exaggerated to me......60kms. I'd believe maybe 30. I realise I could be wrong, but i'd be surprised if a car got that much more mileage out of a full expensive service.

No exageration. I was skeptical myself. I watched it through several tank loads to be sure (I'm still keeping an eye on it and it's pretty consistent). Used to get about 220km to reserve. Now I get about 280.