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Diveboy
17-10-07, 10:10 AM
Been arguing with my girlfriend about filling the car (02 Golf) up. She waits till the fuel light is on before filling up and I say once a week or about 1/4 of a tank left.

Help me settle this please. :smt100
gettin2dizzy
17-10-07, 10:13 AM
Sounds like a conversation rather than an argument. Is she lying? ;)
gettin2dizzy
17-10-07, 10:14 AM
ohh there's a poll now :)

I'll go back to my impatient corner of the room ..
Diveboy
17-10-07, 10:14 AM
Sounds like a conversation rather than an argument. Is she lying? ;)

No it was an argument she folded her arm's and everything ;)
Ceri JC
17-10-07, 10:17 AM
How old is the car? My old man has always advised me to fill up older cars before they get too low (keep it 1/4 full or above) as all the crap in the tank will otherwise jam the fuel filter. The one time I ignored his advise and ran my 106 nearly dry, it had a problem the next day with the fuel filter being clogged up.
the_lone_wolf
17-10-07, 10:18 AM
mine will do the best part of 50 miles after the light comes on, so i wait for the light, then do another 40 or so. only at home though, where i know how far the nearest station is...

why fill it up more often than you have to?
Diveboy
17-10-07, 10:22 AM
why fill it up more often than you have to?

Well to stop the crud getting to the filter and as a precaution in case you have to go somewhere in a hurry.
Berlin
17-10-07, 10:26 AM
Technically, She's right.

If you are filling up at 1/4 tank and say the tank is a 60 litre tank, you'll be carrying araound an extra 7.5 kg (12KG for 15 litres but you'll be using it so average 7.5) on average more than she is. So she's getting more MPG. Over about 5000 years she'd have enough of a saving to buy a big mac! :)

And if you share the car, she's using more fuel that you've paid for than sho paid for.

I'd start filling up when the light comes on if I were you. She's robbing you :)

Carl
the_lone_wolf
17-10-07, 10:34 AM
Well to stop the crud getting to the filter and as a precaution in case you have to go somewhere in a hurry.
i drive a modern car so no issues with the fuel filter, and none with any other car i've ever used or heard of where people have left it til the light to fill up

also, anywhere where i'd need to get to "in a hurry" that was far enough away that it required me to refuel would take so long that the time it would take me to refuel wouldn't make a difference

or i could just leave 5 minutes earlier

or take the bike

or the other bike

or use one of the other cars in my household

or get a lift with the owner of one of the other cars in my houshold

or get a lift with a neighbour

or call a taxi

i could go on...

:p
gettin2dizzy
17-10-07, 10:36 AM
Technically, She's right.

If you are filling up at 1/4 tank and say the tank is a 60 litre tank, you'll be carrying araound an extra 7.5 kg (12KG for 15 litres but you'll be using it so average 7.5) on average more than she is. So she's getting more MPG. Over about 5000 years she'd have enough of a saving to buy a big mac! :)

And if you share the car, she's using more fuel that you've paid for than sho paid for.

I'd start filling up when the light comes on if I were you. She's robbing you :)

Carl
Girls on average weigh 7.5kg+ more than men











:smt100
Diveboy
17-10-07, 10:40 AM
Girls on average weigh 7.5kg+ more than men

That's with handbag. Without she's 5kg lighter! :rolleyes:
gettin2dizzy
17-10-07, 10:43 AM
That's with handbag. Without she's 5kg lighter! :rolleyes:
phew!
That's what i meant! :smt059
sarah
17-10-07, 10:46 AM
See here (http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=98553)for my preferred technique.
Luckypants
17-10-07, 10:49 AM
Can't you find something more destructive to argue about? :smt027
Diveboy
17-10-07, 10:53 AM
Can't you find something more destructive to argue about? :smt027

Not really! Unless I reopen the "What are we doing for Christmas?" one. But I don't really want to go there. I've decided I'm right about filling up and I'll fight my corner. Everything else I'll just agree to blindly, I've too many grey hairs now anyway.
Diveboy
17-10-07, 10:54 AM
See here (http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=98553)for my preferred technique.

Yes well I hope you didn't vote for waiting for the light then!
sarah
17-10-07, 11:01 AM
Yes well I hope you didn't vote for waiting for the light then!

I never fill up with petrol unless the light is flashing.

As others have said it seems like waste of time to fill up before necessary and also to carry around more fuel than necessary. I think this is the most efficient system (apart from when I ran out of petrol).
Viney
17-10-07, 11:16 AM
I always used to fill the car up. My cars gauage is weird. If you filled it up it would stay at the full part for around 100 miles then start to drop. I then used to fill it up again. Nowadays, it gets £30 or so when it shows around a 3rd full. I have had the car for 2 and a bit years, an only ever had the light come on once.

Verna will only fill her car up when the light comes on, and has run out of petrol once, and almost a second time.
Pedro68
17-10-07, 12:17 PM
I'm not voting, because I do most of those options.

In the car, I fill up when I need to ... or when the light comes on ... or when I'm near a garage that sells cheap fuel ;-) I know I will use it so if it's cheap, I'll fill the tank up. On the other hand, if the light comes on and the nearest petrol station I can find is ripping the pi$$ a little with their prices then I only fill it with enough to get me home (from where I know I can go to get cheaper petrol).

On the bike, my commute is 100 miles a day, and I have to fill up every day. I ride it hard on those motorways :oops: So I tend to fill up at the same place every day. If I miss it, I know that there another 6 petrol stations before I reach work ... anyone of which I could use because they are all within about 25 miles of when my fuel light comes on.

Pete
hovis
17-10-07, 12:20 PM
why not make sur she is driving the car when it needs filling up........ thus you dont have to pay
kwak zzr
17-10-07, 12:26 PM
when the fuel computer says 50miles left in tank, usually every Monday £10.
jumjum_0214
17-10-07, 01:29 PM
It breaks my heart filling the car up.

So I wait for the light to come on. Then wait a bit longer and a bit longer then eventually when I really have to, I fill it to the brim.:smt021

Then I feel sad and wish I could ride a scooter to work everyday.
gettin2dizzy
17-10-07, 03:26 PM
I hate filling it up, but always do. It's a good way of keeping a tag on you efficiency (god that's boring). I can get 550miles to 45litres if i'm careful :)
I've no idea if that's good?
anna
17-10-07, 05:06 PM
you argue over when to put fuel in the car????????????????????
Demonz
17-10-07, 05:26 PM
when the fuel computer says 50miles left in tank, usually every Monday £10.

I have been trying to get as much as possible out of the tank - so usually leave it to when it gets under 30. Just so I can try and beat my last milage to a tank record. Silly I know - but its like a little challenge now.
Diveboy
17-10-07, 06:06 PM
you argue over when to put fuel in the car????????????????????

Yeah - Pretty much the only thing in a year other than where to go for christmas. Why what does everyone else argue about??

Sooner be arguing about something trivial than somthing like me not doing house work etc, etc.
chazzyb
17-10-07, 07:17 PM
A bloke I work with drives a company car and has a company fuel card. I see the statements for the fuel cards. He only ever puts in whole multiples of pounds - never any pence. What's that all about? I fill my car until the pump goes 'click' and stops. And the light has to be on. ;-)