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Offline r32tev

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Fuel Tank size ??!?
« on: 07 May 2014, 10:02 »
I must of been running rather low last night.. held the trigger until it clicked at 55.11 litres !!

Has anyone else put over 55 litres in ? ?

Currently Standard !!

Offline RocketRossUK

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Re: Fuel Tank size ??!?
« Reply #1 on: 07 May 2014, 10:12 »
I must of been running rather low last night.. held the trigger until it clicked at 55.11 litres !!

Has anyone else put over 55 litres in ? ?

Yeah thats about right mate  :cool:
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Re: Fuel Tank size ??!?
« Reply #2 on: 07 May 2014, 19:09 »
You did well  :shocked:

The maximum I have ever got in was about 52 Litres and that was after driving 10 miles with "0 miles to empty" showing
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Re: Fuel Tank size ??!?
« Reply #3 on: 08 May 2014, 08:08 »
You can't always believe what the pump tells you.

We only ever had one fuel station in out town until a supermarket started selling fuel at 10p a litre less than the old boy up the road. Funny old thing, he dropped his price to match, so wanting to support the independents, I filled up at his place. According to his pump, I got 63 litres into my Mk4 Golfs 55 litre tank. Needless to say, I've never been back.
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Re: Fuel Tank size ??!?
« Reply #4 on: 08 May 2014, 08:50 »
You can't always believe what the pump tells you.

We only ever had one fuel station in out town until a supermarket started selling fuel at 10p a litre less than the old boy up the road. Funny old thing, he dropped his price to match, so wanting to support the independents, I filled up at his place. According to his pump, I got 63 litres into my Mk4 Golfs 55 litre tank. Needless to say, I've never been back.


This is quite true and goes for a lot of things.

How would you actually know if you were getting the stated quantity of fuel ?

Currently Standard !!

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Re: Fuel Tank size ??!?
« Reply #5 on: 08 May 2014, 10:52 »

This is quite true and goes for a lot of things.

How would you actually know if you were getting the stated quantity of fuel ?

The ones up our way are regularly checked by trading standards I think.
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Re: Fuel Tank size ??!?
« Reply #6 on: 08 May 2014, 11:55 »

This is quite true and goes for a lot of things.

How would you actually know if you were getting the stated quantity of fuel ?

The ones up our way are regularly checked by trading standards I think.

Same down our way - regular checks by TSI. 

I would hope the mainstream fuel providers (Shell, Esso supermarkets, etc) would be accurate, but some independents might be inclined to manipulate the pumps.
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