Fuel In Your Tank

[sunny-dave]

Two questions :

Q1: How low do you let your tank get before re-fuelling - and how full do you fill it?

I get seriously twitchy when I'm at around 1/4 and will then brim the tank - it just seems the easiest way to do things. How about you?


Q2: I know several, otherwise entirely competent, women who would rather run out of fuel than actually fill the tank themselves . One was a a director of my local bit of the NHS & (at least twice) was late for meetings because (and I quote) "My useless effing husband didn't fill up the car, even though I kept telling him, & so I ran out of petrol on the motorway".

Is this a common phobia? If so what is it all about?

petrolhead dave xx

[tonyav]

I usually let mine go no more than a third full ( or empty if I feel pessimistic ) and then brim it. I'm in the process of training my youngest daughter who has recently passed her driving test and now has her own car. Don't want to be having any phone calls from her saying daaadddd I've run out of petrol ;-)

[gness]

Easily, Bernie.....you work for a taxi company and the guy in charge tells you the fuel guage is faulty but not to worry he keeps the cars topped up....

Then, in the wilds of Northamptonshire, you run out of petrol......so you hitch a lift back to town.....toss him the keys and tell him to go find his petrolless car, somewhere in the countryside....and you find another job.....☺

[melv16]

What about the lead in your pencil, Dave? ;-)

[sunny-dave]

It's a propellor, melv :)

[stuey]

Talking about fuel, I just came back from buying some. Regular gas, which is what I buy, is (in your money) 56p per litre. What do you pay?

[Buenchico]

Stuey:
Current UK prices for fuel are shown in the middle panel here:
https://www.petrolprices.com/

[stuey]

Thanks, Chris. So we are about half your price, except for LPG. What is that?

[Buenchico]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied_petroleum_gas

http://www.drivelpg.co.uk/about-autogas/

[Baldric]

When we were both working the house rule was no car with less than ¼ tank, just in case. Now it's only Mrs B working ('til the end of June) she keeps her car above the halfway mark and is quite happy to fill it up herself.
I still get to do the tyre pressures though.

[stuey]

Ah so: Propane powered vehicles. Don't see, or smell, too many of those around.