petrol

  1. J

    Filling your petrol tank past "first click"

    Filling your petrol tank past "first click" With petrol prices hovering around all-time highs in 2018, much advice on how to save petrol has been dispensed by one driver to another. One of the long-standing pieces of advice is "do not fill your tank past first click".
  3. O

    Determining petrol litres left in a car tank

    Hi Everyone This question requires Mathematics understanding. I am curious. I drive honda jazz with 42 litres tank. The petrol gauge have 24 bars. 24th being 42 litres. When I was filling up the gauge arm was between the 2nd and 3rd arm and when the tank was full I subtracted the...
  4. Kevin Lancaster

    Fill your tank – South African petrol shortage coming

    Fill your tank – South African petrol shortage coming Motorists have been advised to fill their tanks, as fuel shortages are expected to hit South Africa soon.
  5. Binary_Bark

    Fuel price hike likely in July - AA

    After The Rates Hike, this is what we re getting Fuel price hike likely in July - AA
  6. Kevin Lancaster

    Petrol shortage crisis looming in South Africa: report

    Petrol shortage crisis looming in South Africa: report Strategic Fuel Fund chair Riaz Jawoodeen has warned that the risk of petrol and diesel shortages in South Africa could lead to an Eskom-like crisis.
  7. A

    Refuelling your car

    Hi All, Wondering how some of you fill up your cars? Do you fill up until the tank it literally full, or do you tell the attendant to stop when the petrol pumps has its 1st click? I've read up about this, including the manufacturers views, and they all say to stop at the 1st click. Filling my...
  8. S

    FuelDir - Beta Launch (Where to find the cheapest fuel)

    Hi Everyone, After being hard at work, and initially intending to launch this last year, I've decided to rework the entire platform and built it better, and bring out native mobile apps too! So for those who don't know, here's the previous thread: here In short, the platform will let you...
  9. HAL 9000

    Jet fuel now cheaper than diesel in India!

    The price of aviation turbine fuel (jet fuel) has been cut steeply. In November 2014, the price of jet fuel fell by 30% and yesterday, by another 11.27%. While the earlier cut made it cheaper than petrol, the last cut has helped it slip below the price of diesel in the country. In Delhi...
  10. akescpt

    keep e36 or buy i10?

    so with the rising petrol price I need to make a decision around keep or buying. I love driving the e36 but the petrol is costing me about R1600 monthly. I throw in R400 and get about 300 kilometers per week. only expenses has been occasional service, brakes and 2 tyres since I bought it about 4...
  11. OnlyOneKenobi

    Have you calculated your daily commute?

    So I have always know the ball-park figure of money I spent on commuting to work and back home, but never really worked out the daily rate until today. This includes petrol, E-toll, Gautrain ticket and Gautrain parking, have not put a figure to "wear and tear" on the vehicle though... and it...
  12. NeonNinja

    Top 10 most fuel efficient cars in South Africa

    VW Polo 1.2 TDi BlueMotion and VW Golf 1.6Tdi Bluemotion The Polo wins it with an average of 3.4litres/100km, but I’ve added the bigger sibling from the group, which is astonishingly just behind its smaller counterpart at 3.8 litres/100km. The Polo will set you back R205,000, which isn’t...
  13. D

    2001 VW Polo Classic - excessive fuel consumption

    I really have a very big problem. This polo is very heavy on fuel consumption. is there any way of reducing the fuel consumption. it is fuel injection so is there any way of hooking up the computer and lowering the amount of fuel used by this car? or what can i do?
  14. jes

    Petrol price decrease coming

    Petrol price decrease coming The price of petrol will decrease from midnight on Tuesday, 5 November.
  15. LazyLion

    Price Hikes May Affect Food Security: TAU SA

    The 81 cents a litre petrol price hike, announced by the energy department on Friday, is bad news for the agriculture sector and could affect food security in the country, the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU SA) said. Tau SA president Louis Meintjes, said the fuel price rise, the budget...
  16. LazyLion

    Price of Petrol compared around the World [Article from India]

    http://www.younews.in/news/price-of-petrol-per-liter-around-the-world/
  17. LazyLion

    Ghost of apartheid haunts fuel price

    http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/industry-news/ghost-of-apartheid-haunts-fuel-price-1.1423185 Oh how convenient that somebody forgot to review the price 18 years ago! :mad:
  18. Rouxenator

    Why does petrol in Venezuela cost R0.42 per liter?

    Saw this little bit of useless info on a recent episode of Fifth Gear and with looming fuel price hikes I wonder why they pay so little for fuel...
  19. LazyLion

    Another fuel hike on the cards for Wednesday 2 May.

    http://www.ewn.co.za/Story.aspx?Id=87097 But the Crude Oil price has actually come down in recent days??? :confused: http://www.livecharts.co.uk/MarketCharts/crude.php http://www.oil-price.net/
  20. Rouxenator

    Longest time your car has gone between fuel fill ups.

    I filled up my car three weeks and one day ago. For some strange reason I get this sense of satisfaction with every day that passes and I do not have to fill it up. This weekend the fuel light came on so if I cycle to work every day of this week then I'll only have to fill it up next week...
  21. H

    95 or 93 Octane?

    Hey guys, I have always opted for 93 Octane as there was never any real difference in performance and consumption between the two whenever I tested. However, I put 95 Octane in my car (2005 Merc E320 V6) on the weekend and have noticed a considerable reduction in fuel consumption. What are...
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