Pietre
Active Member
I filled mine to go to the Used Car Roadshow filming on Sunday £75, that hurt. I had to put more in to go to Slough on the Monday.
As if diesel wasn't expensive enough already...
Rose Chap
MB Enthusiast
Pietre said:
Having to pay to go to Slough. That's like adding insult to injury!
Pietre
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34p a mile and several hours overtime reduced the pain a little bit.
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Doodle
MB Enthusiast
Rose Chap - have PM'd you. Not sure I should publicly disclose the location (prejudice, slander and all that rubbish)
Shude - I get that too, usually sneak in a couple of extra litres (tank capacity being a minimum guide, usually slightly larger than stated) It was only the fact that it was so far out (over 2 gallons) that brought it to my attention!
Shude - I get that too, usually sneak in a couple of extra litres (tank capacity being a minimum guide, usually slightly larger than stated) It was only the fact that it was so far out (over 2 gallons) that brought it to my attention!
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Doodle
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Oooh...then I would probably say the Shell station on the old Basingstoke road, off M4 J11. Next to the boarded up restaurant.
Thanks John!
Thanks John!
grober
MB Master
Recommended that you dont fill your tank to the very brim since this can apparently lead to premature saturation of the charcoal filter/evaporative canister which is part of the petrol tank emission control system. The recommendation is to fill up to the first pump cut off and no more! This is excluding any blowback cutoff thro filling too quickly.
oops:- I have just read the first post again. Dont know if my remarks obout petrol sytems applies to diesel fuel but there may be other reasons as per glojos post.
oops:- I have just read the first post again. Dont know if my remarks obout petrol sytems applies to diesel fuel but there may be other reasons as per glojos post.
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glojo
Hardcore MB Enthusiast
grober said:
I don't know how it applies to very modern vehicles but over filling a diesel tank can quite literaaly have fatal consequences.
As an ex motor cyclist I can honestly say you could smell the spilt diesel that flowed from over filled tanks when these vehicles negotiated sharp bends, roundabouts etc
As the topic of this thread quite rightly states: As if diesel fuel wasn't expensive enough already.... Why spill it?
John
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I recently filled up at a Shell Garage ( in Dover on the main road) I had to put Ultimate ( or whatever they call it) diesel in because every other pump on the forecourt selling standard unleaded and standard diesel was mysteriously out of order.
Someone trying to increase their shift takings?
I was going to report it to Shell, but it was the firms car, and not my money so I didnt bother. I wouldnt go there again though.
Allan
Someone trying to increase their shift takings?
I was going to report it to Shell, but it was the firms car, and not my money so I didnt bother. I wouldnt go there again though.
Allan
I doubt that was anything very sinister, they probably sell far more of the 'standard' grades and had simply run out.
Silestanix
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Doubt it...I've had that before at the same fuel station in Dover, main road aka A20, Shell...I went there 3 weeks in a row on my way abroad...everytime, no normal fuel, only ultimate... :|
Silestanix said:
What, both petrol and diesel? Dunno what the price difference is on diesel, but relatively few 'average drivers' will use Optimax so they'd probably have lost quite a lot of sales.
jimti
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I would have thought you would have left the UK with an empty tank if you were going over the Channel. Diesel prices are far less in Europe compared to the UKSilestanix said:
