How much do you pay for petrol?

**Shad** · 02-10-2003, 01:08 PM

State the price per litre in pence and the location and brand; I'm curious to see just how wide the variation is...

For me it's 76.9p from BP in Newbury for normal unleaded.

**Stu** · 02-10-2003, 01:13 PM

74.9 the last 4/5 times I've filled up..

Gonna start shopping/filling up at safeway to take up there offer though

**madmaca** · 02-10-2003, 01:14 PM

74.9 Shell Unleaded | 79.9 Shell Optimax @ Stoke-on-Trent

I'm an Optimax man myself

madmaca.

**Trash Man** · 02-10-2003, 01:16 PM

76.9p

**madmaca** · 02-10-2003, 01:20 PM

Originally posted by Stu
74.9 the last 4/5 times I've filled up..

Gonna start shopping/filling up at safeway to take up there offer though

I would advice against Supermarket petrol. It is notoriously low quality stuff and I personally have had bad experiences with it. I filled up my bike once at Asda (ran out of fuel otherwise I wouldn't have - damn inconvenient not having a fuel guage

) and for 2 weeks after that the bike suffered severe stuttering and loss of power at random intervals as though the carbs were blocked. After 2 fill ups with "proper" petrol it righted itself. There was obviously some crap deposited in my tank.

Before anyone says it - I know millions of people fill up at supermarkets without any trouble - but I have seen the same warnings about supermarket fuel on many a car forum, so thought I would pass it on.

Sorry to hijack the thread

Back to fuel prices...

madmaca.

**XTR** · 02-10-2003, 02:22 PM

77.9p for Unleaded from the Esco Garage at the Washington Services on the A1M.

81.9p for Super Unleaded

**Tumble** · 02-10-2003, 02:36 PM

Sans Plomb currently stands at 80.9p here, and Diesel is anywhere between 81 & 83p

Wish mine did more than 17mpg....

**[GSV]Trig** · 02-10-2003, 02:51 PM

I think its about 79.4 for normal unleaded and 81.7 for super unleaded here atm, dont really take much notice tbh..

**Raz316** · 02-10-2003, 02:52 PM

Originally posted by madmaca
I would advice against Supermarket petrol. It is notoriously low quality stuff and I personally have had bad experiences with it. I filled up my bike once at Asda (ran out of fuel otherwise I wouldn't have - damn inconvenient not having a fuel guage ) and for 2 weeks after that the bike suffered severe stuttering and loss of power at random intervals as though the carbs were blocked. After 2 fill ups with "proper" petrol it righted itself. There was obviously some crap deposited in my tank.

Before anyone says it - I know millions of people fill up at supermarkets without any trouble - but I have seen the same warnings about supermarket fuel on many a car forum, so thought I would pass it on.

Sorry to hijack the thread Back to fuel prices...

madmaca.

Sorry to continue the Hijack but (and I am not just disagreeing for sake of it

) I used to use Tesco while the local BP was getting rebuilt, no problems at all. Now BP is open again, I have started using it. I didn't even consider it could be because I am getting petrol from a different place, but my car is acting alot like you described! I'll have to give Tesco another try.

Err and I haven't a clue what I pay for petrol, I'll have to check tonight

**joshwa** · 02-10-2003, 03:10 PM

72.9 from tesco or was it 72.7 - one of those 2. in liverpool

on tuesday

74.9 from texaco which is closer to where i live

**5lab** · 02-10-2003, 03:19 PM

74.9 at most places round here in brighton (ie shell, asda etc) - was 73.9 a month ago. i hear both tax and base prices are rising thou - so it will probably jump up somewhere between 5 and 10p

back home for me (nr reading) im normally lucky got get sub 80p

http://www.theaa.com/allaboutcars/fuel/index.html <- an interesting read

**sdp** · 02-10-2003, 04:20 PM

I honestly don't know

I only put 4 or 5 quids worth in at a time so I'm not bothered by the odd penny difference

**Shad** · 02-10-2003, 06:08 PM

And I thought Newbury was pricey - if I had to pay more than 80p I'd be fuming!

**Lowe** · 02-10-2003, 06:45 PM

79.9 here for Optimax

**Barakka** · 02-10-2003, 08:03 PM

Originally posted by Raz306
Sorry to continue the Hijack but (and I am not just disagreeing for sake of it ) I used to use Tesco while the local BP was getting rebuilt, no problems at all. Now BP is open again, I have started using it. I didn't even consider it could be because I am getting petrol from a different place, but my car is acting alot like you described! I'll have to give Tesco another try.

Tesco is the exception as they use Esso fuel, the problem with the rest is that they get the petrol from wherever it's cheap and just put it in. This means you're getting different brands mixed together and i've had the same problem with supermarket petrol - a couple of tanks of decent Super Unleaded sorted it though. Think it depends on the engine as well though, my 1.6 16v didn't like it at all, but my g/f's 900cc Cinq runs fine on s-market fuel.

Will edit this post tomorrow when i've driven past the station to get the price

**adeypius** · 02-10-2003, 09:28 PM

I live in Ireland
cheapest diesel Ive seen in Ireland is tescos in Killarney when you spend 50 euro on shopping get 5 cent off - leaving it @ 69.4 cent per litre thats approx 49 pence. petrol prices were within a cent or two of that
local prices near me are 80 cent for petrol and diesel
prices in NI are similar to the mainland

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