MK5 Golf GTI

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Title: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: berg on May 21, 2012, 08:35:09 pm
Think mine is only about £80.00 unless i go further afield, but imagine that is peanuts compared to some of you?  

i know it all depends on your net take home and what other committments you have but how do you afford to run the car if putting hundreds in every week?  :scared:

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Post by: Andy on May 21, 2012, 08:36:00 pm
Mine is £10 now
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Post by: Beddie on May 21, 2012, 08:37:35 pm
Average of £400 a month for us  :laugh:
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Post by: Edition30 on May 21, 2012, 08:38:45 pm
Roughly 2000 miles a month, fortunately I work at the same place as my dad and he foots the bill.
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: berg on May 21, 2012, 08:40:42 pm
Average of £400 a month for us  :laugh:


ouch, is that spread over two salaries? even so must make you weep surely?
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: Beddie on May 21, 2012, 08:44:43 pm
Average of £400 a month for us  :laugh:


ouch, is that spread over two salaries? even so must make you weep surely?

Yeah, sort of... the missus fills it once a month and i do the other 3 or 4 weeks and any weekend fuel needed, we get through a full tank and a bit just for her commute to work (60 miles a day)  :rolleye:
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Post by: Nodz on May 21, 2012, 08:47:08 pm
Roughly £170 a month unless I do any distance driving. Roughly do a tank every week and a half unless I have a works van then a tank lasts me a month
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Post by: Lone_Par on May 21, 2012, 08:52:35 pm
Similar to Nodz, probably about £200 per month for the mk5 GTI, or more depending on whether I drive to the folks which is a 250 mile round trip etc. wife has a diesel kuga and she probably puts in about £180 or so a month standard.
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Post by: Tamiyoman on May 21, 2012, 08:54:18 pm
Mines about £90pm (work from home)
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: berg on May 21, 2012, 08:59:19 pm
i think if i worked further afield and had to drive it 60 miles a day it would be game over and i would be forced to switch to the devil's fuel  :evilgrin:
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: Beddie on May 21, 2012, 09:02:44 pm
i think if i worked further afield and had to drive it 60 miles a day it would be game over and i would be forced to switch to the devil's fuel  :evilgrin:

Yeah it was a bit of a shock coming from our previous A3 2.0TDi, but i nearly fell asleep each time i drove it and you only live once and all that so bought the '30  :happy2:

Must admit it does make me wince when i'm matching my mortgage amount in unleaded each month!  :laugh:
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: berg on May 21, 2012, 09:05:33 pm
yeah as much as i look at an m3 or an rs4 avant i think i am kidding myself, as would only be able to use them at weekends as would have to push bike it in the week ha ha
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Post by: gazbutS3 on May 21, 2012, 09:10:50 pm
was puttin 500quid ish a month in the S3, so bought a brilliant 2002 Bora TDI for work duties which I have become quite attached to and halved the bill. The S3 lives a charmed life now  :smiley:
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Post by: Beddie on May 21, 2012, 09:14:10 pm
Yeah i'd love a Focus RS after trying a mate's Mountune one and would have liked to have run something 6 cylinder for a while but have to be realistic and cap the amount i spend on what is only really my weekend car, Golf R would work though  :laugh:
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: berg on May 21, 2012, 09:15:04 pm
was puttin 500quid ish a month in the S3, so bought a brilliant 2002 Bora TDI for work duties which I have become quite attached to and halved the bill. The S3 lives a charmed life now  :smiley:


fook me my mortgage is only £434.00 a month!

yeah bet the bora is a good work horse
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: berg on May 21, 2012, 09:17:11 pm
Yeah i'd love a Focus RS after trying a mate's Mountune one and would have liked to have run something 6 cylinder for a while but have to be realistic and cap the amount i spend on what is only really my weekend car, Golf R would work though  :laugh:


yeah golf r or s3 sportback more likely options for next car. how much thirstier would a stage 1 rs3 be over a stg2+ eddie?
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Post by: glenn_g60 on May 21, 2012, 09:17:17 pm
Going through about 170 quid a month. Roughly 45 a week doing around 200 mile mark per week.
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Post by: gazbutS3 on May 21, 2012, 09:21:18 pm
was puttin 500quid ish a month in the S3, so bought a brilliant 2002 Bora TDI for work duties which I have become quite attached to and halved the bill. The S3 lives a charmed life now  :smiley:


fook me my mortgage is only £434.00 a month!

yeah bet the bora is a good work horse
my mortgage is 250quid  :laugh: so it was really stinging me
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Post by: damoegan on May 21, 2012, 09:22:54 pm
Fill up every other week so about £120-130 p/m..
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: Beddie on May 21, 2012, 09:26:03 pm

yeah golf r or s3 sportback more likely options for next car. how much thirstier would a stage 1 rs3 be over a stg2+ eddie?

Probably not 'that' much thirstier if at all i'd have thought? The 2.5 seems reasonably economical for the power imo  :happy2:

Just the £40K price tag to overcome first  :signLOL:
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: berg on May 21, 2012, 09:30:12 pm

yeah golf r or s3 sportback more likely options for next car. how much thirstier would a stage 1 rs3 be over a stg2+ eddie?

Probably not 'that' much thirstier if at all i'd have thought? The 2.5 seems reasonably economical for the power imo  :happy2:

Just the £40K price tag to overcome first  :signLOL:
  :jumpmove:

yeah was thinking 2014/15 might be a more reasonable price. the new A25 AMG might be interesting as meant to be more power than the RS3 but only a 4 pot
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: Beddie on May 21, 2012, 09:36:26 pm
Yeah it's sad that the writing is on the wall for the future of 6 + cylinder cars for the mainstream motoring public but good news that it forces the development of reasonably clean and economical performance stuff, perfect if you do 22K a year like me  :happy2:
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Post by: Kregiel on May 21, 2012, 10:23:34 pm
i spend 150ish a month! 30 miles round trip every day to work!

Paul
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Post by: ub7rm on May 21, 2012, 10:25:20 pm
£50-60 a week, not too bad for a S3 doing about 270 - 300 miles a week.
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: berg on May 21, 2012, 10:30:37 pm
£50-60 a week, not too bad for a S3 doing about 270 - 300 miles a week.


suppose not, still nearly 3k a year though.

i do think though, that as performace car owners, you do learn to cut your cloth accordingly ie we want to run these cars so maybe we cut down on nights out and take our own butties to work instead of going greggs  :signLOL:
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: rich83 on May 21, 2012, 10:49:59 pm
Anywhere between 300-500 quid, at a guess. 

I don't sit down and work it out exactly, because if I did it would be on Pistonheads in a few minutes. :-)
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: berg on May 22, 2012, 09:08:52 am
Anywhere between 300-500 quid, at a guess. 

I don't sit down and work it out exactly, because if I did it would be on Pistonheads in a few minutes. :-)


oouch, you do over 20k a year in it do you Rich?
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: rich83 on May 22, 2012, 09:46:59 am
Anywhere between 300-500 quid, at a guess. 

I don't sit down and work it out exactly, because if I did it would be on Pistonheads in a few minutes. :-)


oouch, you do over 20k a year in it do you Rich?

25k ish

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Post by: andrewparker on May 22, 2012, 09:57:59 am
Mine isn't too bad, probably about £120 a month. It's the £1500 a month mortgage payment and £1100 nursery fees that are killing me at the moment.
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Post by: sub39h on May 22, 2012, 10:10:04 am
probs spend around £150-£200 a month

but i got an all time record for a tank the other week - 420 miles! that's only 20mi less than my old 1.6 A3 managed as it's personal best so considering this has double the power i'm well chuffed.
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: berg on May 22, 2012, 10:19:57 am
suppose it is all relative to the combined income of your household, if you and your wife have a combined income of 70-80k then is not too much of a concern but combined income of my household aint nowhere near that
Title: Re: how much is your monthly fuel bill?
Post by: Dp_Ed30 on May 22, 2012, 08:18:13 pm
Filled up 11 times last month  :scared:
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Post by: Eccie on May 22, 2012, 09:02:47 pm
Filled up 11 times last month  :scared:

It dosen't count if you only put a £10 in each time :evilgrin:
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Post by: Little_Dave on May 22, 2012, 09:22:40 pm
Filled up 11 times last month  :scared:

It dosen't count if you only put a £10 in each time :evilgrin:

Haha student petrol days  :laugh:
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Post by: Marshall on May 22, 2012, 09:33:14 pm
I put £70 a week through my cupra r and approx £30 a week in the wife's diesel Leon.
So on a 4 week month £400 and a 5 week month £500
Yes this is much much more than my mortgage but what can you do?
I do 300 miles a week and her car does about 200 miles a week.


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Post by: Mk5 GTian on May 22, 2012, 10:52:08 pm
3 fills a month on average, so about 210 a month.
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Post by: MC71 on May 22, 2012, 11:14:34 pm
Filled up 11 times last month  :scared:

That's got to hurt!

Only spend about £100-£150 a month mainly due to being able to walk to work so not too painful. If all I had to pay for was a big fuel bill, would be well chuffed.
Money gets rinsed by my wife's perfume and handbag addiction and 2 daughters, 1 of which is planning her wedding and yes "bank of mum and dad" are involved. You think their expensive when their young!!!!
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Post by: Sonic6103 on May 22, 2012, 11:45:01 pm
Luckily for me it depends what I'm doing really as to which car is best suited to use but my fuel bill can be anything from around £150 a month up to around £6/700 but luckily I've started using my diesel a lot more now so it's more around the £150 mark which doesn't eat into my savings that way :)
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Post by: edd666999 on May 23, 2012, 12:07:08 am
me and the mrs do the same miles every month.

costs her £30


and me £200

 :laugh:

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Post by: stu_no_1 on May 23, 2012, 06:48:39 am
I was putting in a full tank every week into my gti so I did the obvious thing and bought an r32.... Wait a minute summit not right there lol
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Post by: holland15h on May 23, 2012, 09:28:59 pm
About 60 a week of diesel,works out I do about 500 miles ish a week, 99% motorway
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Post by: neg on May 24, 2012, 07:53:32 am
I dont want to think about it - the Wife's car she has only fillted up 3 times in the past year ... I've filled it up about 40 times mind you  :confused:

One of those things, we all need it and its expensive - just a shame you dont tend to just 'go for a drive' anymore.
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Post by: MC71 on May 24, 2012, 01:23:43 pm
just a shame you dont tend to just 'go for a drive' anymore.

Yeah, your right about that. We went out for 'just a drive' round some local countryside couple of weekends ago (with a full tank) and on the way home filled up, £25!
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Post by: neg on May 24, 2012, 03:07:02 pm
Makes me laugh when you see younger drivers putting in a fiver .. lucky if you get home on that now.
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Post by: skard on May 24, 2012, 03:16:51 pm
This year I've averaged about £30 a month in my tdi. I work away so it has periods of standing idle.

My mrs has a 1.9 tdi and a £70 fill up just about does her a month.

Plan is to give her my Golf and get myself an ED30 later in the year, as I don't do the miles anymore to justify having a diesel.
Although I have an A1 TFSI as a courtesy car and it's hard getting used to full tank estimates of about 275-300 miles!
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Post by: E30Dom on May 24, 2012, 03:18:03 pm
was puttin 500quid ish a month in the S3, so bought a brilliant 2002 Bora TDI for work duties which I have become quite attached to and halved the bill. The S3 lives a charmed life now  :smiley:

I'd love to do this but worried about insurances etc...

Spending about £270/month on fuel + any day/weekend trips away...
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Post by: stealthwolf on May 24, 2012, 03:43:08 pm
Full tank every week (just about) so around £240-300/mth.
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Post by: Billy on May 24, 2012, 04:00:30 pm
I'm about £140 a month (two tanks).

I get the train into work Mon-Fri and only drive the 5 mins down to the train station (It's a five minute drive but a twenty odd minute walk).

Use the car more at the weekend though :driver:

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Post by: NotNormal on May 24, 2012, 04:12:34 pm
Between 500 to 700 a month, depending on what I'm upto  :driver: