USING TO MUCH PETROL

any chance of an english version then we might be able to offer some help.

Could you perhaps use the shift key when replying, I can't understand you.

That's a meaningless measure. I could write "five hundred," but without know what car, it's academic.

How many miles, how much fuel used in litres?

Gulf 2000?

Golf. Surely.

If it's a city-run car it's perfectly normal. Sniff and then taste the fluid.

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Eh? I'm sorry, I understood each word but have no idea what you're on about.

First year of gulf 1991. Getting 600 miles on full tank of fuel (but it's diesel). Black watery liquid on a Saturday night is probably Guinness. DaveK.

I thought we were in the year of the discrete tortoise myself.

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Nah, '68 was the first year of Gulf.

Because different fuel guages can show "empty" with quite different amounts of fuel still in the tank, the only way to accurately measure fuel consumption is to record the milage and fuel quantity purchased at each of several successive fills. Then calculate average MPG.

Cars do dribble water from the exhaust pipe until the exhaust system is hot enough to boil off all the condensate (water) formed when petrol burns in air. Steam on cold steel will condense. I wouldn't expect that water to be very clean.

John

I can get 700 miles from a 57 litre tank of diesel.

That won't help though, because it's a different fuel and different car.

It'll be condensation, mixed with soot from running the car constantly on short runs, where it's not getting up to temperature, and boiling the water out of the engine and exhaust system.

Pete.

If your petrol is coming from the Gulf you should have at least 50 years left before it dries up and you go back to riding camels.