£10 for 30 miles??

[patooties]

I’ve just put a tenner (bang on a tenner) worth of unleaded fuel into a 1.5l car. It was reading 55 miles left as I did it - after £10 of fuel it rose to 86miles.

does this sound like the petrol station is stealing - or is that really how many miles a tenner of fuel gets? I don’t have that setting visible on my cars dashboard.

WIBU to go back to them or report them or something?

Cars have computers that calculate these things and it depends on how you drive and the journeys you make. At the moment our little 1.2 auto is only averaging 26mpg as we only go into to town and back and never get above 5th gear (out of 8). Last year when we were up and down the motorway on 120 mile each way journeys were were averaging over 55mpg and when we filled up the range would be over 400miles as opposed to the 250 miles at the moment.

I think you're going to sound completely unhinged. If you'd filled the tank up and it cost more than the capacity should have allowed, you might be into something, but the miles remaining is at best a very rough estimate.

Let us know how you get on though!

I never look at miles left. I can do a hundred plus more on the motorway or a hundred less in town.

You need to fill up to the brim then reset the trip and fill up again to brim and note what that cost per mile was. I did something crazy like 100 miles for £30 but my car is old, big and 1.8l car.

£10 won't get your far unless you have a panda or smart car the size of a vacuum cleaner. Which gets more appealing to me by the day

I was going to give exactly the same answer, except it's a Škoda Fabia. Dp gets through a lot more petrol than me for the same miles (but we do get to places a lot quicker).

Lol obvs meant miles 🤦🏽‍♀️