Have you noticed fuel prices going up

[mystreet]

My KIA Niro is in for service. Got a KIA Sportage Hybrid as a loan. Will need to add £5 petrol when taking it back. When pass the garage it was £1.42 pL. Just looked up have to run it on permanent EV. They want the tank back as they gave it to me.

 

[salty]

My KIA Niro is in for service. Got a KIA Sportage Hybrid as a loan. Will need to add £5 petrol when taking it back. When pass the garage it was £1.42 pL. Just looked up have to run it on permanent EV. They want the tank back as they gave it to me.

Does £5.00 worth even register? Would they actually even look.

 

[securespark]

Reminds me when I hired a brand new F reg Fiesta for the weekend. Brought it back. Petrol station less than half a mile away. I literally brimmed it till I could see petrol. Dropped it off.

The bastards charged me £10 saying it was low on fuel.

 

[siteguru]

Does £5.00 worth even register? Would they actually even look.

That's about 3 litres, just over half a gallon. Depending on the tank capacity then the needle may not even move.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

My KIA Niro is in for service. Got a KIA Sportage Hybrid as a loan. Will need to add £5 petrol when taking it back. When pass the garage it was £1.42 pL. Just looked up have to run it on permanent EV. They want the tank back as they gave it to me.

They should have a mileage total ,( miles out , miles back ) show them a dated receipt for the fuel at a rate for the WLPT for the Kia. How could they argue?

 

[T1 Terry]

I once threatened to syphon out what I considered to be the fuel value they claimed I'd used, they backed down when I said I reckoned it would be roughly 20ltrs at normal service station prices
Hold onto the keys until they have finished the paperwork, it gives you a bit of bargaining power .....

T1 Terry

 

[Ian Key]

Hold onto the keys until they have finished the paperwork, it gives you a bit of bargaining power .....

Good idea as they probably still have your car and car keys

 

[Ian Key]

My KIA Niro is in for service. Got a KIA Sportage Hybrid as a loan. Will need to add £5 petrol when taking it back. When pass the garage it was £1.42 pL. Just looked up have to run it on permanent EV. They want the tank back as they gave it to me.

My dealer says that when they provide me with a courtesy car while mine's being serviced. It means the tank is on empty and you have to visit the nearby garage to prevent range anxiety on your way home.

 

[T1 Terry]

Good idea as they probably still have your car and car keys

Only on an airport rental, the chances of getting a courtesy car at New Spot Motors where we bought the MG is extremely limited, even the second cup of coffee when we were buying the thing looked like I was pushing my luck

T1 Terry

 

[decrep]

so what, do they drain the tank when you return it for the next person to fill?

 

[Ian Key]

so what, do they drain the tank when you return it for the next person to fill?

The thought had crossed my mind

 

[T1 Terry]

so what, do they drain the tank when you return it for the next person to fill?

Worked for bloke who gave a female customer a courtesy car while we repaired her car because it was going to have to stay in the workshop over night.
Received a very angry phone call the next day that the car had broken down on the way back to the workshop, I headed out to the spot the car was, and sure enough, it had run out of fuel and they hard clocked up 120kms for a 32km return trip from the workshop to her home.
Ran the workshop to add $20 for fuel and $40 for a breakdown call out for having run out of fuel ..... as you can imagine, the air was Blue by the time I drove the car back into the workshop, she was still there, going off the planet that she was expected to put fuel in the car as well and now she was getting charged additional for fuel and for the recovery of the courtesy car

T1 Terry

 

[mystreet]

Report back.

Drove the 20 miles home with 140 miles on the petrol GOM at the start. Got home with it reading 139. Sat there all day and on the return stopped at the local Sainsbury's for £5.02 of petrol at £1.419 pL. Got back in the car and the GOM read 131, so lost 8 miles on a quarter mile trip.

Arrived back at the dealer with 141 on it. Petrol gauge did not move off segment 1 of the 2 quarter of it, so no fuel excess.

After driving it, I would not buy one at all. Engine constantly hitting 2500rpm pulling away when the battery was over half full, and it seemsed very under power when doing so. Only way to go into EV mode was to take my foot of the go pedal and then very slowly accelerate. But when doing 40 50 mph it was fine.

Gave the dealer my feedback on the car as above.

 

[securespark]

I used to do a lot of commercial driving.
In the early days, the hire companies all used to send them out nearly empty and ask that you bring them back empty.
Which was tricky and inconvenient to do.

The company I used had vans and trucks leaving early in the morning and down the hill at the nearest juice stop, there'd be a queue of us all waiting to fill up.

I think that system must have been seen as unfair, because after some years, it changed to a full tank, bring it back full.

Talking of prices, I got these prices from the UK parliament website. The figures represent the price in pence per imperial gallon of 4 star.
Unfortunately I chopped off 1970, which was 33.

 

[Gomev]

I used to do a lot of commercial driving.
In the early days, the hire companies all used to send them out nearly empty and ask that you bring them back empty.
Which was tricky and inconvenient to do.

The company I used had vans and trucks leaving early in the morning and down the hill at the nearest juice stop, there'd be a queue of us all waiting to fill up.

I think that system must have been seen as unfair, because after some years, it changed to a full tank, bring it back full.

Talking of prices, I got these prices from the UK parliament website. The figures represent the price in pence per imperial gallon of 4 star.
Unfortunately I chopped off 1970, which was 33.

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See post #62 for prices 1896-2005. Don't forget decimalisation in 1971, so the 33p would have been about 80d (old pence for the young)

 

[GaryMG4]

See post #62 for prices 1896-2005. Don't forget decimalisation in 1971, so the 33p would have been about 80d (old pence for the young)

Or 6s 8d for the rest of us. Funny how 80d looks totally wrong to those of us old enough to have grown pre decimalisation, but 33p seems ok.

 

[T1 Terry]

Or 6s 8d for the rest of us. Funny how 80d looks totally wrong to those of us old enough to have grown pre decimalisation, but 33p seems ok.

No idea how people ever worked out cash books pre decimal, it was introduced in Aust 14 Feb 1966 ..... the stupid jingle that went with it still haunts me

" In come the Dollars, in come the cents, to replace the all pounds, shilling and the pence, so be prepare when the money starts to mix, on the 14th February 1966"

There's an ear worm for all the older Aussies Your Welcome

T1 Terry

 

[Gomev]

No idea how people ever worked out cash books pre decimal, it was introduced in Aust 14 Feb 1966 ..... the stupid jingle that went with it still haunts me

" In come the Dollars, in come the cents, to replace the all pounds, shilling and the pence, so be prepare when the money starts to mix, on the 14th February 1966"

There's an ear worm for all the older Aussies Your Welcome

T1 Terry

Just like anything else, you were brought up on it, it was perfectly natural. Someday someone in the future will say the same about ICE.

 

[T1 Terry]

Just like anything else, you were brought up on it, it was perfectly natural. Someday someone in the future will say the same about ICE.

They already do, then ask them how a power split works across a 4WD EV

T1 Terry