I have a TDI 75 and as far as I am aware it is the standard tank. 450-ish miles was achieved on more or less solid motorway at 45-50mph. I was driving slowly due to the fact I had a burst CV gaitor and should not have been driving it at all. At the moment I am able to get around 390 - 400 miles per tank as I mainly use the car on A-Roads but still use it occasionally for trips to the supermarket etc. This is with me driving at 50mph when I am able to without holding up too much traffic. Before I began doing this then perhaps I got around 320 miles as well. Thing is, with fuel prices going up, are we going to simply buy the same amount of fuel and make savings in other aspects of our lifestyle so that the oil company fatcat shareholders can line their pockets even more or are we going to use less fuel. I'm using less fuel because I think that the price is artificially high in that it doesn't need to be and I refuse to rise to the bait. Also I am not one of these 'panic buyers'. I saw them queuing at the pumps today when I went to fill up (due to my tank being nearly empty I hasten to add). They are just adding fuel to the fire (no pun intended). The more people panic then the easier it is for oil firms to jack up the price. There is plenty of fuel and no need to panic buy.
PS. I aim to get 100 miles for every quarter section of the fuel gauge and if I am managing that then I figure I am doing pretty well. 400 miles on a tank is pretty respectable I think but as I say, I don't normally get into the car unless I am driving at least 40 miles - My girlfriend lives 40 miles away and my close family lives 40 miles in the other direction.
First the Grangemouth strike over pensions and now the truck drivers whinging about an average salary of £32K per annum? That is 2 seperate-issue oil industry strikes in as many months and it is obvious that the unions are taking advantage of the fact that much of the public are anxious over the stability of fuel supplies. My bet is that the unions hope the government will give in to pressure to intervene and provide funds for the wage increase or encourage oil firms to relent to the demands. Slimy, greedy, cowardly and pathetic. The striking drivers should be sacked and replaced with eastern europeans who will do the job for half the salary. That would give them something to whinge about! If they paid for my driver training then I would happily do the job for £20K PA. It's driving a truck, not rocket science.
