Anyone actually "filling up"?

[It's a fair cop...]

Always fill up. Hate going to petrol station. Is it my imagination but she seems to drive better full.

Definitely your imagination, it was explained to me a few years ago by a shrink. It's part acquisition (yes, even petrol ) and part anticipation of use that gives you a buzz, chucks out a few endorfins, heightens your senses and so you "feel" like your cars going faster.
Could be wrong of course, has been known before, and we'd both had a few sherbets at time 8)

 

[Bing]

Nah, it's the numbness you feel after paying for the petrol that results in the world feeling like it's moving faster around you :dizzy:

 

[ewwimbledon]

Surely the amount of fuel you save by having a lighter tank is negligible even at today's prices.

Fill to brim for me to avoid trips to petrol station even though it's less than two minutes drive away from house.

 

[jaz4]

Some say using ron 97 every so often keeps it sweet not all the time but every 3 or 4th fill up or so.

Full tank 55l is around 38kg. so messing with less than 20kg in weight from half to full compared to 1500kg for the car.

 

[srhutch]

Ive just spent $20 and got just under 6 us gallons. Wish i could bring some back home

 

[It's a fair cop...]

Surely the amount of fuel you save by having a lighter tank is negligible even at today's prices.

Fill to brim for me to avoid trips to petrol station even though it's less than two minutes drive away from house.

Suppose I'm still stuck in '95 when I rolled my vti on Xmas day, days after it had been serviced (£106 for a major service!) and filled the tank that morning (£16!!!!)

 

[junglist]

I only really use mine at weekends so it gets a fresh lot of V-Power each time, enough to cover where I'm going that weekend.

Usually enough left over for a midweek hoon too, telling myself it's free petrol. :lol:

 

[ronk]

If the car is stored for any length of time, the tank sould be filled to reduce airspace and thus condensation.

 

[ZedFourM]

Once below a quarter (in whatever car) fill up completely.....

I'm the exact same. Comes from remembering what it was like to drive cars with carburettors, where you didn't want the tank to get too low, as you'd risk disturbing any sludge and other crap at the bottom of the tank.

 

[Talksthetorque]

If the car is stored for any length of time, the tank sould be filled to reduce airspace and thus condensation.

Doesn't petrol go off though?

Or have I read that on the internet and therefore have no idea whether its true or not? :?

Daily Driver gets filled up when light's been on for a good 50 miles (This bit will make you weep - usually about every 700 miles)


Z get's filled up whenever I'm in the car, and Linda decides to pull in to a petrolstation so she doesn't have to do it (or pay for it :thumbsdown: )

 

[Nondizzyblonde]

I need about two tanks per month, so always fill right up, 'coz I can't be bothered going to the petrol station that often !

 

[bigdog]

Fuel will go off slower with the tank full. It's the evaporation of the fuel that leaves deposits, not the age of the fuel. Limit evaporation (full tank) and that helps.

 

[Carol M]

 

[Garvin]

Fuel going off, evaporation, condensation! Where do you get all this 'information' from? Just fill the tank each visit, life's too short to spend it in fuel stations stuck waiting behind some infuriating person who's doing their weekly shop instead of just paying for fuel and GETTING OUT OF THE WAY!

 

[pvr]

According to Moneyweek, UK is about to go bankrupt with riots etc like in the 70s. I keep all cars filled up and keep a large supply of diesel in jerrycans

 

[Stuart Truman]

I bet you buy all the milk too

 

[pvr]

No, what is wrong with a cow in a field?

 

[Stuart Truman]

The thought of you on a milking stool in a field miking your cow pleases me.

 

[ewwimbledon]

Fuel going off, evaporation, condensation! Where do you get all this 'information' from? Just fill the tank each visit, life's too short to spend it in fuel stations stuck waiting behind some infuriating person who's doing their weekly shop instead of just paying for fuel and GETTING OUT OF THE WAY!

Could not agree more. Not like in my student days when I would buy £5 of petrol at a time. Ran out of gas more times than I care to remember.

 

[bigdog]

Fuel going off, evaporation, condensation! Where do you get all this 'information' from?

Easy. In a life a long time ago in a galaxy far far away called South Dakota. We would have wild swings in temperature. 108F summer down to -33F winter. This could play havoc if one didn't keep the tank full during winter. I even mounted a 35,000BTU aux kerosene heater to preheat the fuel and coolant in my FedEx lorry. At -20F #2 diesel turns nearly solid. Any condensation in a petrol or diesel system will freeze in short order. So, 1.3 million miles later over the course of ten yrs. I've seen & learned a lot of trivial BS stuff. lay: