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mjheathcote

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Just filled up the diesel chugger at Carrefour.
0.999 euro per litre, so that's about 75p.
Petrol is 1.26 euro per litre, so less than a quid.
Can see why foreign truck drivers have extra fuel tanks fitted!
 

safrane

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My fathers company set up a French branch some years ago to take advantage of this and the fact that the trucks did not have to pay almost £5k per year for road take and a operators plate...and yet we have thousands of foreign trucks filling our motorways and roads contributing nothing to the UK tax coffers.
 
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There is a Tesco convenience store near me and I swear they keep inching the price up and have been doing so for a while in spite of the $50 or so bbl
 

Wack61

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Foreign artics carry enough fuel to drive dover to Aberdeen and back without spending a penny in the UK
 

conaero

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We should do as they do in Switzerland, introduce a tax disc that any foreign driver has to display in the window, they last 1 month. Failure to have one is €1000 spot fine from memory, why is the UK so lazy in collecting tax from outside its borders???

Suppose you could argue that the UK is a free market and that why we are doing so much better than our Euro cousins.
 

dem maser

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We should do as they do in Switzerland, introduce a tax disc that any foreign driver has to display in the window, they last 1 month. Failure to have one is €1000 spot fine from memory, why is the UK so lazy in collecting tax from outside its borders???

Suppose you could argue that the UK is a free market and that why we are doing so much better than our Euro cousins.
good idea
 

CatmanV2

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There is a Tesco convenience store near me and I swear they keep inching the price up and have been doing so for a while in spite of the $50 or so bbl

I recall when I bought the 4200 that I figured it was only a matter of time until it cost me £100 to fill it. The price keeps going down, and although I've got *close* hasn't happened yet.

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drewf

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Only if you are fool enough to run it virtually dry, and suck up all the crud from the bottom of the tank!
 

CatmanV2

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Only if you are fool enough to run it virtually dry, and suck up all the crud from the bottom of the tank!

Yep. I tend to fill when the light comes on. Or shortly after. When we hit Carrefour at Reims last year I got very close. I'd been on reserve for a little while

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safrane

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Of course... but a full tank as stated is 88ltr and if its got that much in at a cost of 1.13 thats 100 of our pounds.
 

safrane

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Note that petrol in Italy is 0.30€ more than in France per ltr...will fill up in Nice before I head for the border next week.
 

Spartacus

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never understood the "s**t at the bottom of the tank myth " its a stainless tank , and the fuel is taken from the bottom of it so any **** would get sucked to the filter anyway ;P
 

drewf

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Not so - the fuel pickup is deliberately not right at the bottom of the tank. If you 'run it dry', there will still be some fuel in there, probably several litres. The fuel itself contains the crud, so you'll find it in even a stainless tank. In the aircraft, we have a drain right at the bottom of the tanks to drain out water and gack leaving just pure fuel - it's done as a matter of course in a pre-flight walk round. It's never done on a car, so it just accumulates.
 

GeoffCapes

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never understood the "s**t at the bottom of the tank myth " its a stainless tank , and the fuel is taken from the bottom of it so any **** would get sucked to the filter anyway ;P

I think that 'myth' came from when fuel tanks were made of steel and used to rust. Aren't the majority these days plastic? or at least plastic lined?
 

mjheathcote

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Don't know if there is a fuel filter, certainly no serviceable one or replacement canister like most fuel injection cars.
 

2b1ask1

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In these days of fuel injection there are enough filters on the system to prevent crud getting that far; I've never had any issue with contamination or picking up crud, I've spluttered into garages in new and old vehicles both petrol and diesel alike and never had an issue. Jeanette even putt a quarter tank of petrol in the diesel Kia before realising it was wrong. She had the presence of mind to call me to rescue her rather than start it. I simply cut the fuel line after the primer hand pump under the bonnet and pumped the tank dry, put a couple of gallons of diesel in and reconnected it when it came through diesel. Started and ran no problems. Tanks these days don't rust out so I don't believe there is an issue. UK fuel is clean enough and hardly jungle juice like you get in Africa or other countries.
 

Andyk

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Just filled up the diesel chugger at Carrefour.
0.999 euro per litre, so that's about 75p.
Petrol is 1.26 euro per litre, so less than a quid.
Can see why foreign truck drivers have extra fuel tanks fitted!

Filled up the hire car in La Rochelle yesterday and had a shock how cheap it was..........Cost around £25 ..... Would have been more like £50 plus over here.