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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Debs. on 09 November 2010, 17:19:23
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....barely 15 litres. >:(
:-? Wales generally has the most expensive road fuels in the U.K.......And yet (as also for the Scots.) we have no choice but to make longer journeys on less fuel-efficient types of road. :(
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I filled up the Omega and the BMW yesterday. £143 in total :'( >:( >:(
At least the car tax seems to have stayed the same. I have just received my reminder and it is £205.
Thankfully I can walk to my new place of work. So the Omega will only be doing 4-5K per year, plus if I use my car for work I receive 53p per mile :y
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I made the mistake of paying at the pump the other day, only to realise that it limited me to £59 each time - so I had to do it twice to fill the tank, standing in the freezing cold.. I'd have been better off paying in the kiosk ;D
:-? Wales generally has the most expensive road fuels in the U.K.......And yet (as also for the Scots.) we have no choice but to make longer journeys on less fuel-efficient types of road. :(
Yes, but your roads are much, much more fun to drive on than a motorway (apart from all the pikey palaces slowing everything down).. so it's all fair in the end :P :P
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A5 , A55, A483
no worse than down here as roads....
and with a LOT less traffic on them getting in the way, it probably evens out....
(says someone who previously lived in Colwyn Bay, and on Anglesey, and down the end of the Lleyn )
seriously.... getting from home to work in rush hour when i lived there meant i could count the cars using more than one hand....
now, i couldn't even begin to count them,.
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Yes, but your roads are much, much more fun to drive on than a motorway (apart from all the pikey palaces slowing everything down).. so it's all fair in the end :P :P
You forgot about the tractors, the coaches full of coffin-dodgers and the rain, and the mad locals in pickup trucks. >:(
I'd love nothing more than to enjoy a drive in Wales but it has so far eluded me apart from one trip back from Aberystwyth when fate was cruel to me and dealt me a knackered Rover 214 with a slow puncture.
I must have diverted through Wales dozens of times in the Westfield when going up north or getting the ferry from Anglesey, hoping for an enjoyable drive. Every time I just get earache from Mrs. KW for taking me somewhere wet and miserable. ;D
I have the opportunity to spend a long weekend there touring with a group of kit cars in the spring. Not sure how I'm going to choose yet. I suspect if I go it'll be alone. ;D
Kevin
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Yes, but your roads are much, much more fun to drive on than a motorway (apart from all the pikey palaces slowing everything down).. so it's all fair in the end :P :P
You forgot about the tractors, the coaches full of coffin-dodgers and the rain, and the mad locals in pickup trucks. >:(
I'd love nothing more than to enjoy a drive in Wales but it has so far eluded me apart from one trip back from Aberystwyth when fate was cruel to me and dealt me a knackered Rover 214 with a slow puncture.
I must have diverted through Wales dozens of times in the Westfield when going up north or getting the ferry from Anglesey, hoping for an enjoyable drive. Every time I just get earache from Mrs. KW for taking me somewhere wet and miserable. ;D
I have the opportunity to spend a long weekend there touring with a group of kit cars in the spring. Not sure how I'm going to choose yet. I suspect if I go it'll be alone. ;D
Kevin
No need for this Kevin - just pick me up on your way through our fair land! :y
;D ;D ;D
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Yes, but your roads are much, much more fun to drive on than a motorway (apart from all the pikey palaces slowing everything down).. so it's all fair in the end :P :P
You forgot about the tractors, the coaches full of coffin-dodgers and the rain, and the mad locals in pickup trucks. >:(
I'd love nothing more than to enjoy a drive in Wales but it has so far eluded me apart from one trip back from Aberystwyth when fate was cruel to me and dealt me a knackered Rover 214 with a slow puncture.
I must have diverted through Wales dozens of times in the Westfield when going up north or getting the ferry from Anglesey, hoping for an enjoyable drive. Every time I just get earache from Mrs. KW for taking me somewhere wet and miserable. ;D
I have the opportunity to spend a long weekend there touring with a group of kit cars in the spring. Not sure how I'm going to choose yet. I suspect if I go it'll be alone. ;D
;D That is largely true, mind.. the journey back from Anglesey last time included the A5 - which for a large section is the most abominable road I've ever driven - two mile (or less) sections of road punctuated by roundabouts with few overtaking opportunities and one long tailback, bah! I'd rather use the A55 next time, at least that has mostly dual carriageway to get past the slow folks :)
Having said that, the EVO triangle (http://www.pbase.com/shadytree/image/52297002.jpg) was a great section of road on which we were lucky to find very little traffic (and what traffic there was scarpered to the side and let us past ;D ) - although it was a touch hairy trying to keep up with the 911 C2S up there :o
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As someone else already hinted at - in or around the big cities, and anywhere near London in particular, the roads may be wider and straighter, but a lot of time is spent on them stood still in nose to tail traffic. Colchester is reported to be one of the most congested towns in the country (its appalling at peak times ) and the A12 London bound - even in North Essex - bears more resemblence to a car park than a main trunk road at 7.30am. Don know about prices around the country but petrol is around 120 ppl here at the moment. LPG around 66pp. :(l
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I filled up the Omega and the BMW yesterday. £143 in total :'( >:( >:(
At least the car tax seems to have stayed the same. I have just received my reminder and it is £205.
Thankfully I can walk to my new place of work. So the Omega will only be doing 4-5K per year, plus if I use my car for work I receive 53p per mile :y
Just to make you feel better, around £120 of that will be tax :'(
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When petrol spiked a couple of years back, Asda's £95 limit wasn't enough to do my twice weekly fill :'(
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Im afraid my next car is going to have to be a small (corsa size) diseasel. Im trying to put it off as long as I can, but its looming ever closer. :'( :'( :'(
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No need for this Kevin - just pick me up on your way through our fair land! :y
;D ;D ;D
Ahh! Local knowledge. Might be a plan. :y
Kevin
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I filled up the Omega and the BMW yesterday. £143 in total :'( >:( >:(
At least the car tax seems to have stayed the same. I have just received my reminder and it is £205.Thankfully I can walk to my new place of work. So the Omega will only be doing 4-5K per year, plus if I use my car for work I receive 53p per mile :y
Why was mine £245?
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I filled up the Omega and the BMW yesterday. £143 in total :'( >:( >:(
At least the car tax seems to have stayed the same. I have just received my reminder and it is £205.
Thankfully I can walk to my new place of work. So the Omega will only be doing 4-5K per year, plus if I use my car for work I receive 53p per mile :y
Just to make you feel better, around £120 of that will be tax :'(
and rising in jan due to vat and fuel duty increase. :(
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I filled up the Omega and the BMW yesterday. £143 in total :'( >:( >:(
At least the car tax seems to have stayed the same. I have just received my reminder and it is £205.Thankfully I can walk to my new place of work. So the Omega will only be doing 4-5K per year, plus if I use my car for work I receive 53p per mile :y
Why was mine £245?
I imagine Zombie's was registered before March 2001, ergo he pays the 'over 1600cc' rate of tax, and yours is post March 2001 so you pay the (new) band K tax..
I don't know what the g/km figures are for the Omega, but I wouldn't mind betting they'd fall into the £425 tax bracket if they were still being made after 2006..
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_10012524
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filled the car up on Sunday, as I was passing Asda, £24 got me 43L of fuel :) - Next was the beemer that cost me £17 to fill up. Bike is now more expensive to fuel than the car :o
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filled the car up on Sunday, as I was passing Asda, £24 got me 43L of fuel :)
Now THAT, I like the sound of...
And @ 'Debs' Why have a 2.5 v6 and moan about how much the fuel costs!?
;D :y
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I filled up the Omega and the BMW yesterday. £143 in total :'( >:( >:(
At least the car tax seems to have stayed the same. I have just received my reminder and it is £205.Thankfully I can walk to my new place of work. So the Omega will only be doing 4-5K per year, plus if I use my car for work I receive 53p per mile :y
Why was mine £245?
I imagine Zombie's was registered before March 2001, ergo he pays the 'over 1600cc' rate of tax, and yours is post March 2001 so you pay the (new) band K tax..
I don't know what the g/km figures are for the Omega, but I wouldn't mind betting they'd fall into the £425 tax bracket if they were still being made after 2006..
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_10012524
My car is a facelift and was registered Dec 1999 :y My 2.5 BMW is £245 >:( >:(
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What gets me is when fuel was going up to nearly £1 a liter every body went up in arms they stopped the fuel from coming out of the depots and i for one was all for it....Now no one seems to bat an eye lid yes we have a go about it but nothing is going to be done about...Just like us good brits we bend over and take it again and again. >:( >:(
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i remember bitching about it when fuel went over £1 a gallon.
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i remember bitching about it when fuel went over £1 a gallon.
...... and me. SWMBO had a Honda Melody at the time & you couldn't get a quids worth in it if you tried. :y