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Dec 29, 2011 | 10:32 AM

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goodyegg

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£10 gets you about a gallon and a half so you'd have to be getting 60mpg to do that. Think you're being a tad optimistic there chap

At £1.34 a litre you're getting 1.6 gallons, or there abouts.

there is no way that for even a sport 90 miles for £10 quid..i have a sport and for 10 quid i get about 40 miles at best and thats soft driving

Dec 29, 2011 | 11:11 AM

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From: Somewhere in Kent, sniffing some V-Power

FFS, you might as well say, 'I drive some miles using some fuel.' Because that is about as much as the usual, 'I get X miles for Y fuel.'

It really isn't hard to work out mpg!

Dec 29, 2011 | 07:07 PM

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had a rather spirited drive over to stoke last night, all country roads big hills and a very strong headwind.....i did 126 miles on half a tank..and i wasnt hanging around...

Dec 29, 2011 | 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by goodyegg

there is no way that for even a sport 90 miles for £10 quid..i have a sport and for 10 quid i get about 40 miles at best and thats soft driving

Yeah ten quid should get you 45 miles if were assuming we get 30mpg just burbling about

Dec 30, 2011 | 09:44 AM

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Dec 30, 2011 | 11:49 AM

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Dec 30, 2011 | 01:09 PM

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From: Somewhere in Kent, sniffing some V-Power

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I give up.

Dec 30, 2011 | 01:29 PM

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90 miles on £10 of fuel!

were you being towed????

Dec 30, 2011 | 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Harmz2011

That might be something to do with it. You should fill a jerry can up next time you fill your car up, reset you odometer and just drive it until it runs out of petrol, then you should see how many miles you're really getting.

Yeah and after that why not advise him to give the engine a good clean by pumping sand through it.