What is diesel/petrol costing you per week?

blue5000

As above, we seem to be spending more and more money each week on fuel for car, jeep and tractor. I reckon it's on average about a 100e per week. Where is it going to end? I'm trying to post a poll on this, so mods if it doesn't work the quetions are 0-50, 50-100, >100 euro per week.

reilig

2 cars (economical diesels), a jeep and 3 tractors. 1000km each in both cars every week. 150 - 200km in the jeep per week. Depends on the time of year for extra diesel uses for the tractors.

leg wax

just filled the d-max and its the first time it cost 80euro.

vanderbadger

leg wax wrote: »

just filled the d-max and its the first time it cost 80euro.

what? thats nothing for a 4x4, pajero if rightly empty would could cost 120 to fill :eek:

Muckit

Get in with the local chipper and make your own Bio diesel for ~30c/Litre.

bob charles

Muckit wrote: »

Get in with the local chipper and make your own Bio diesel for ~30c/Litre.

Where do you buy the injectors :

Spending something around €750 a week on the business

Atilathehun

Diesel is mad expensive, BUT, you wouldn't want to skimp too much, and fill up at those particular fuel stations who always seem to be a good beit cheaper than the main brand stations:(
Mechanic in my local Toyota, garage telling me, they are seeing new cars less than two years old, and small mileage, with blown injectors and pumps, due to bad fuel. Expensive to fix. Costing up to €2.5k depending on extent of the damage. NOT covered by warranty!!:eek:

epfff

I put abt 130 into jeep and my good wife puts another 80 into a 1.6diesal car.oh ya I nearly forgot I burn another 30 liters of green a week or 1500 per yr in tractor and I get contractor to do most of my work

Muckit

bob charles wrote: »

Where do you buy the injectors :

Spending something around €750 a week on the business

Biodiesel eats rubber. Change any rubber hoses and seals in older machines and your laughing. I'm only learning. The bro-in-law to be makes it in his shed and is running it in his jeep, car and tractor with NO engine mods. He's actually making better quality bio diesel than the stuff you buy. You need to be a bit of a scientist though to make it

reilig

Muckit wrote: »

Biodiesel eats rubber. Change any rubber hoses and seals in older machines and your laughing. I'm only learning. The bro-in-law to be makes it in his shed and is running it in his jeep, car and tractor with NO engine mods. He's actually making better quality bio diesel than the stuff you buy. You need to be a bit of a scientist though to make it

You see the biodiesel kits for sale on uk machinery magazines ~ €1000 for the equipment needed. You'd also want to have a good supply of chippers to keep you going in oil. Biggest problem is that it isn't great stuff for running in Common Rail engines. We used to have an old farm jeep (1995 Hilux) for the fields and used to buy cooking oil from lidl to keep it going. Lovely smell of chips from the back of her when you'd be racing around the tracks.

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/BIOBUDDY-125L-BIODIESEL-PROCESSOR-MACHINE-KIT-/270929177847?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f14a32cf7

Muckit

reilig wrote: »

You see the biodiesel kits for sale on uk machinery magazines ~ €1000 for the equipment needed. You'd also want to have a good supply of chippers to keep you going in oil. Biggest problem is that it isn't great stuff for running in Common Rail engines. We used to have an old farm jeep (1995 Hilux) for the fields and used to buy cooking oil from lidl to keep it going. Lovely smell of chips from the back of her when you'd be racing around the tracks.

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/BIOBUDDY-125L-BIODIESEL-PROCESSOR-MACHINE-KIT-/270929177847?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f14a32cf7

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Those bio diesel kits don't work. He made his own 'plant'. Bio diesel isn't vegetable oil. The oil ungoes a chemical reaction when mixed with the catalyst chemicals. Bio diesel smells nothing like chipper oil and is a very clean fuel.

Glycerin is a by product from which you can make ethanol which you can use to make your next batch

The lad that figures out how to turn polyethene into a usable fuel will be laughing

Tora Bora

Muckit wrote: »

reilig wrote: »

You see the biodiesel kits for sale on uk machinery magazines ~ €1000 for the equipment needed. You'd also want to have a good supply of chippers to keep you going in oil. Biggest problem is that it isn't great stuff for running in Common Rail engines. We used to have an old farm jeep (1995 Hilux) for the fields and used to buy cooking oil from lidl to keep it going. Lovely smell of chips from the back of her when you'd be racing around the tracks.

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/BIOBUDDY-125L-BIODIESEL-PROCESSOR-MACHINE-KIT-/270929177847?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f14a32cf7

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Those bio diesel kits don't work. He made his own 'plant'. Bio diesel isn't vegetable oil. The oil ungoes a chemical reaction when mixed with the catalyst chemicals. Bio diesel smells nothing like chipper oil and is a very clean fuel.

Glycerin is a by product from which you can make ethanol which you can use to make your next batch

The lad that figures out how to turn polyethene into a usable fuel will be laughing

Imagine bringing your new John Deere, back to the garage with a warranty issue on the engine or fuel system, and they find a couple of soggy chips, and a deep fried Mars bar stuck in the system:D
You would only want to put the home made fuel, in the auld 35X or David Brown or something like that:)

bbam

About €77 a week into the x-trail and another €80 every 10 days into the C4 G-picasso.

leg wax

vanderbadger wrote: »

what? thats nothing for a 4x4, pajero if rightly empty would could cost 120 to fill :eek:

thats a d-max for ya,a very small tank and the fuel light was on:rolleyes:

yourpics

I spend about €70 a month, but if the price was more realistic I would spend far more i.e. high prices drive down sales

I think we should discuss doing something about the cost.

Here are my suggestions:

1. Choose one particular fuel retailer e.g. Topaz and boycott them. The government are more likely to listen to the captains of industry when the revenue drys up.

2. Protest at TD's private houses, make their lives miserable.

3. Encourage fuel retailers not to sell fuel to any government minister, TD, Senator, supporter etc

4. Blocade the ports and Dublin with tractors

BeeDI

yourpics wrote: »

I spend about €70 a month, but if the price was more realistic I would spend far more i.e. high prices drive down sales

I think we should discuss doing something about the cost.

Here are my suggestions:

1. Choose one particular fuel retailer e.g. Topaz and boycott them. The government are more likely to listen to the captains of industry when the revenue drys up.

2. Protest at TD's private houses, make their lives miserable.

3. Encourage fuel retailers not to sell fuel to any government minister, TD, Senator, supporter etc

4. Blocade the ports and Dublin with tractors

Brilliant, brilliant plan!

I especially, like the bit about blockading the ports. I mean, it's not as if we need to export our own agri products or anything like that.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

yourpics

BeeDI wrote: »

Brilliant, brilliant plan!

I especially, like the bit about blockading the ports. I mean, it's not as if we need to export our own agri products or anything like that.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Export agri products??

On Saturday, I drove through an area of outstanding agri land, there was fields full of round bales of straw sitting there in the same place since they were baled last August/September.
I think it is a crying out shame. Why have these farmers left these bales there? If they don't need them, they could donate them.
With waste like this going on and being grant aided, is it any wonder the government are taking advantage of us and ripping us off.

blue5000

yourpics wrote: »

Export agri products??

On Saturday, I drove through an area of outstanding agri land, there was fields full of round bales of straw sitting there in the same place since they were baled last August/September.
I think it is a crying out shame. Why have these farmers left these bales there? If they don't need them, they could donate them.
With waste like this going on and being grant aided, is it any wonder the government are taking advantage of us and ripping us off.

They are probably going to be used as fuel in a power station:D

As for a boycott, the only filling stations that should be boycotted are the ones selling the laundered stuff, that ruins injectors, pumps etc.

JohnBoy

I put €105 in the frontera on saturday night. a personal best

I dont actually know what it's costing me per week, as I dont refill it every week, and I always fill it to the brim, but I'm spending around €50-€60 per week doing small enough mileage.

redzerologhlen

About 130 a week in the cruiser and at least another 50 in the tractor, gives me a shiver thinking about it

Vandy West

€60 a week for 300 miles in a 1.4L almera.

johngalway

Around €65-70 a week.

Grumbles.

Username John

Missus has a 50 mile round trip to work
I have a 20 mile round trip
+ lot of weekend mileage at the minute...

About 100euro / week...

Thanks a bunch Blue...

Juniorhurler

leg wax wrote: »

thats a d-max for ya,a very small tank and the fuel light was on:rolleyes:

I'll back this up. I put €90 in mine and I was getting worried about the three miles to the petrol station before filling it. I think the tank is plenty plenty big at the moment though:p.

Between the jeep and the car at the moment we would be burning about €80 per week, car is a honda accord diesel but we both work within 10 miles of home

Tractors are a different kettle of fish, I think theres a hole in all the tanks.

moy83

About 100 in the patrol p/w and another 50 in the herselfs car and the tractors probably burn about 50 a week averaged out over the year .
When you write it down you would wonder how you manage to pay it at all , not to mention running costs

dar31

bugger me.
just worked it out on a weekly basis
2 jeeps, 2 cars, 3 tractors, and a quad.
€400:(
quad costs about same as farm jeep
better start walking more

whelan1

just wondering have people cut down the amount they are driving? i walk all the time for the cows... have an old jeep that goes on green for going round the field but tbh by the time i get it started i would be well on the way for the cows

blue5000

dar31 wrote: »

bugger me.
just worked it out on a weekly basis
2 jeeps, 2 cars, 3 tractors, and a quad.
€400:(
quad costs about same as farm jeep
better start walking more

Sorry dar I should have put a few more options on the poll, thats around 20k a year. I reckon the jeep is getting to be a luxury at this stage on my place, a small van might be worth looking at:(

flatout11

its feckin shocking i added up the fuel bill since xmas :eek::eek::eek::eek: ouch wouldnt begin to describe it....... paid 167 in dub a few weeks ago i cant see prices stopping

johngalway

whelan1 wrote: »

just wondering have people cut down the amount they are driving?

No, I was down to the bare bones of what I could get away with in the first place.

Milton09

Got a very painful fill up yesterday

2 tanks of white - €3600
1 green - €1500
1 Kero - €1300

Previous fill was in Nov.
Dont want to think about it anymore

Edit: Just after re-reading the first line - in another forum that could have so many other meanings:eek:

bbam

Just pulled into a country pub for a sandwich, was on the phone in the car park. Seperately Both a MIT Pajero and a large New Holland with a hedge cutter came in , parked up and off in to have lunch leaving the engines running, obviously not starting.
For some I think Diesel isnt too dear just yet !

omen80

Just saw 1.65 tonight down at the local garage, wtf????

Costing me at least 80 quid a week.

yourpics

Cut down on fuel consumption by getting rid of the 4x4 guzzlers

leg wax

yourpics wrote: »

Cut down on fuel consumption by getting rid of the 4x4 guzzlers

and can you please tell me how am i going to get the kids to school .

PMU

leg wax wrote: »

and can you please tell me how am i going to get the kids to school .

car

whelan1

leg wax wrote: »

and can you please tell me how am i going to get the kids to school .

have 3 kids , two go to school up the road and youngest goes to playschool 2 miles away, i used to drop 2 eldest to school and my husband would drop youngest to school. Now my husband drops them all.... we also do a run between my sister and i in the evening i pick her daughter up 3 days a week and she gets mine the other 2.... when i am not as busy in the mornings i will walk older 2 to school... really think their is an opening for a walking bus type of thing at alot of rural schools. I think its the football games miles away that need to be cut down also

Tipp Man

yourpics wrote: »

Cut down on fuel consumption by getting rid of the 4x4 guzzlers

Been on a farm much have you???

5live

yourpics wrote: »

Cut down on fuel consumption by getting rid of the 4x4 guzzlers

And i will carry the cows to the mart with a donkey and cart:D. You really need to get out more and actually see reality rather than chat to cyber warriors in your bedroom;)

pakalasa

When I lived in Dublin, you'd see these top of the range Landrovers, worth over 100K, with no tow hitch.:D
Ah, the days of the Celtic Tiger.

leg wax

PMU wrote: »

car

whelan1 wrote: »

have 3 kids , two go to school up the road and youngest goes to playschool 2 miles away, i used to drop 2 eldest to school and my husband would drop youngest to school. Now my husband drops them all.... we also do a run between my sister and i in the evening i pick her daughter up 3 days a week and she gets mine the other 2.... when i am not as busy in the mornings i will walk older 2 to school... really think their is an opening for a walking bus type of thing at alot of rural schools. I think its the football games miles away that need to be cut down also

jesus i was only jokeing:D

leg wax

5live wrote: »

And i will carry the cows to the mart with a donkey and cart:D. You really need to get out more and actually see reality rather than chat to cyber warriors in your bedroom;)

no we will all walk the cattle to the marts and hold up the traffic so they then burn extra fuel.

yourpics

5live wrote: »

And i will carry the cows to the mart with a donkey and cart:D. You really need to get out more and actually see reality rather than chat to cyber warriors in your bedroom;)

How do you think farmers went to the mart before the explosion in 4x4 ownership?

In the early 90's every farmer went to the mart with a tractor. People used a normal car for everyday transport. Although it costs more to go to the mart with a tractor, the savings are made on everyday commuting.

I think you should face up to the reality that the celtic tiger is over.

yourpics

Tipp Man wrote: »

Been on a farm much have you???

Yes and I don't remember many jeeps in the 60's 70's 80's or early 90's on Irish farms. How did we ever manage without them?

Tipp Man

yourpics wrote: »

Yes and I don't remember many jeeps in the 60's 70's 80's or early 90's on Irish farms. How did we ever manage without them?

Yeah and they milked cows by hand in the 60's as well

I think that you are out of touch i'm afraid

yourpics

Tipp Man wrote: »

Yeah and they milked cows by hand in the 60's as well

I think that you are out of touch i'm afraid

But seriously, what is wrong in using a tractor for the mart?

It is rare now to see a tractor at the mart, nearly all jeeps.
Not so long ago since it was the other way around.

Tipp Man

yourpics wrote: »

But seriously, what is wrong in using a tractor for the mart?

It is rare now to see a tractor at the mart, nearly all jeeps.
Not so long ago since it was the other way around.

A jeep is so much more than a means to get to the mart

We would see the jeep as important as the second tractor - which is kind of the role that it is filling

yourpics

Tipp Man wrote: »

A jeep is so much more than a means to get to the mart

We would see the jeep as important as the second tractor - which is kind of the role that it is filling

Fair enough. I myself use the tractor for tractor work and a 2L TDI car for lighter work. The car is the jeep around here!

Tipp Man

yourpics wrote: »

Fair enough. I myself use the tractor for tractor work and a 2L TDI car for lighter work. The car is the jeep around here!

And you won't be long wrecking the car if you are throwing bags of nuts or fertiliser in it, taking it into fields for fencing, pulling trailers with it

yourpics

Tipp Man wrote: »

And you won't be long wrecking the car if you are throwing bags of nuts or fertiliser in it, taking it into fields for fencing, pulling trailers with it

I am a very very careful owner, you would think to look at my car that it was used for town driving only!

Tipp Man

yourpics wrote: »

I am a very very careful owner, you would think to look at my car that it was used for town driving only!

You can be as careful as you want but the suspensions and drive systems of cars are not meant to be driven in fields or have bags of nuts or fertiliser put in them - which is fair enough that is not what they are designed for - that is what jeeps are designed for which is why farmers have them