MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: MC71 on March 21, 2012, 01:25:20 pm
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Well it's that time of year again when the Chancellor turns me upside down, shacks like mad and makes whats left of my wages fall from my pockets!!!
Petrol going up 3p in August. V Power going to cost another couple of quid per tank!! If only I was rich I would no doubt be able to pay a top accountant to save me a shed load of cash. The bloody SUPER RICH tax band has gone down to 45% :fighting:
Oh well at least I gave up smoking last year, gone up 37p a packet! :laugh:
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:sick: :sick:
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Petrol isn't going up? The 3p increase in duty will still go ahead in August, but no other rises have been mentioned, certainly not 3%.
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Was just going to ask where the 3% came from :confused:
Fuel duty has already been cut by £4.5bn and there will be no increase was what GO said
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.... Just don't worry about it, whatever increases they decide we will have to pay.
No point in moaning really, I realised that a while back.
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.... Just don't worry about it, whatever increases they decide we will have to pay.
No point in moaning really, I realised that a while back.
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This
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Even if they don't directly put the price up it will increase anyway.
Notice how V-Power is 5p/litre dearer than it was 2 months ago. :sad1:
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.... Just don't worry about it, whatever increases they decide we will have to pay.
No point in moaning really, I realised that a while back.
Yup us brits are used to taking it up the hoop from the Gov (we like paying for their mistakes it seems) :booty:
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Well it's that time of year again when the Chancellor turns me upside down, shacks like mad and makes whats left of my wages fall from my pockets!!!
Petrol going up 3%, about 5p for my Shell V Power. Another couple of quid per tank!! If only I was rich I would no doubt be able to pay a top accountant to save me a shed load of cash. The bloody SUPER RICH tax band has gone down to 45% :fighting:
Oh well at least I gave up smoking last year, gone up 37p a packet! :laugh:
Haha just thinking the same thing even though I only gave up on Sunday :laugh:
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end of the day we will have to pay for whatever will go up..
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http://www.debtbombshell.com/
http://www.debtbombshell.com/uk-national-debt.htm
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Article said: In 1997 Labour inherited a budget that was actually in balance. After a painful and turbulent decade under the Tories, the public finances had finally been brought under control. But after four years in office Gordon Brown took out the country's credit card and let rip. By the end of 2009-10 our annual deficit had ballooned to £170.8 billion.
Interesting article that quote I pulled from it sums up the mess, you can't just blame the bankers as our spending was out of control and unsustainable before the crash.
Nothing will change though, give it another 5 years of pain and we may get close to balancing the books, then labour will get voted in and within another 5 years we will be back to spiralling debt...
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Well it's that time of year again when the Chancellor turns me upside down, shacks like mad and makes whats left of my wages fall from my pockets!!!
....To think that when George was born his parents Sir Peter and lady Felicity very proudly invited me to their London house to see the new born. But no! I would not have turned upside down etc!
I think he has done well in the circumstances. For those who pay tax *cough* they will apparently be about £200 a year better off because of the tax threshold being raised. Of course the leftwingers will ignore that and also focus on Corporation Tax threshold being also raised - something which is good for business and in turn of benefit to all.
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Even if they don't directly put the price up it will increase anyway.
Notice how V-Power is 5p/litre dearer than it was 2 months ago. :sad1:
Filled up today and it's gone up another 3p in a week. Feckin cheeky b'stards. :fighting: :fighting:
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Even if they don't directly put the price up it will increase anyway.
Notice how V-Power is 5p/litre dearer than it was 2 months ago. :sad1:
Filled up today and it's gone up another 3p in a week. Feckin cheeky b'stards. :fighting: :fighting:
Just don't look at the cost, and then do a 0-60 run as soon as you leave the garage to validate the expenditure :signLOL:
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I checked my spreadsheet and Hedge is right. V-power went up from 139 to 145 over the past six months.
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I paid 149-something last week, before The Budget, not that I usually take much notice of the exact price. I don't/won't run my beloved car on anything other than V-Power and I don't have time to work, so I don't commute.
Just don't look at the cost, and then do a 0-60 run as soon as you leave the garage to validate the expenditure :signLOL:
....That's the spirit! :happy2:
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I checked my spreadsheet and Hedge is right. V-power went up from 139 to 145 over the past six months.
..........£1.46 a litre at my local Shell yesterday. :sad1:
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£1.48p/l at my nearest Shell. :sad1:
Thank fook when i move there is a Tesco with momentum 99 about 1/2 a mile from where ill be working.
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143p for Tesco 99 when I filled up on Sunday!
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I just got a letter saying that my company discount on fuel will cease on the 30th April because they've sold the fuel card business. I used to get 7p / Litre off of TOTAL Excillium Diesel. Looks like I'll be going back to Shell then.
These budgets tickle me, the things that rob you of money such as fags, fuel etc going up can happen at midnight on the day of the announcement. Get anything back from the robbing cnuts and it takes effect from next April!!
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£1.47 at my local Shell for V-Power.
£1.48p/l at my nearest Shell. :sad1:
Thank fook when i move there is a Tesco with momentum 99 about 1/2 a mile from where ill be working.
Is the Tesco stuff as good, gets a little cheaper when they do their 5p-10p off litre with shopping. :happy2:
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Some cars like it, some don't
I ran mine over Xmas on Tesco 99 and didn't notice any difference to be honest. It was 5ppl cheaper than V-Power anyway and as you say when they start doing the 5 or 10ppl off promotions it can work out quite nicely :happy2:
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I have ran my car on both VPower and Tesco Momentum. I can tell no difference in real world driving, or ignition timing. If anything i think the tescos fuel runs better on tickover when cold. The VPower seems a little lumpy. Plus its about 4p per litre cheaper to start with, then when the 5p or 10P discounts are on it works out around 15p a litre cheaper than shell.
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Some cars like it, some don't
I ran mine over Xmas on Tesco 99 and didn't notice any difference to be honest. It was 5ppl cheaper than V-Power anyway and as you say when they start doing the 5 or 10ppl off promotions it can work out quite nicely :happy2:
I have ran my car on both VPower and Tesco Momentum. I can tell no difference in real world driving, or ignition timing. If anything i think the tescos fuel runs better on tickover when cold. The VPower seems a little lumpy. Plus its about 4p per litre cheaper to start with, then when the 5p or 10P discounts are on it works out around 15p a litre cheaper than shell.
Cheers fellas. Will think about Tesco 99, was under the assumption that it was Shell V-Power or.........well ,Shell V-Power!
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Do you fancy editing your original post, seeing as it was factually incorrect?
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I checked my spreadsheet and Hedge is right. V-power went up from 139 to 145 over the past six months.
..........£1.46 a litre at my local Shell yesterday. :sad1:
....£1.49 on my way to Nottingham early this morning and £1.48 on my way home this afternoon - The same V-Power station (near Newbury).
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Just filled up today and it's now £1.47.
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Time to get a diesel?
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Nah. It could go up to £2 and I'd still drive the GTI! :driver:
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Time to get a diesel?
I have been driving buy a garage outside of dundee and in the last few weeks diesel went up by 5p a litre on a friday they put it up 1p then monday it goes back down 1p so as far as the duty and tax is concerned then its a pain but the owner there is a :mad:. I refuse to fill up with diesel at any other garages apart from morrisons asda and tesco. Murcos are the dearest and thats if they are giving you the full litre :wink:
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Nah. It could go up to £2 and I'd still drive the GTI! :driver:
So then why keep such a close eye on fuel prices?
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Observation.
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Nah. It could go up to £2 and I'd still drive the GTI! :driver:
.... x 2 :happy2:
The only reason I've looked at the pump price recently has been becuase of this thread!
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Ditto. The main reason I keep a spreadsheet of MPG is to gauge for any problems. In my old fiesta, I kept records of fuel use and found the car seemed to lack power at one point. This was backed by a drop in MPG which then lead to further investigations and a repair.
Ditto with the MK5. The car didn't feel down on power much but at one point the MPG dropped below expected for my style of driving. It turned out to be a faulty coil pack. The drop in power wasn't immediately noticeable and it was only through MPG logs that I found it out.