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• Fiesta Leaking Petrol. 12 Mar 2004 (Forum)
  Hi, I wonder if anyone can help with the following. We have a '97 R-plate Ford Fiesta 1.3 Encore, when the tank is near full & parked on a slope it will leak petrol from the fuel cap nozzle. Despite this being checked by a local garage who could find not fault (the fuel cap has been replaced
• petrol prices inevitable 21 Jan 2003 (Forum)
  Recieved e-mail today trying to stop the inevitable fuel price increases, it suggested boycotting one major fuel supplier ie ESSO. suggested this was a shure winner if we all did it forcing said supplier to maintain / cut fuel prices over all over suppliers and therefore force all to keep prices
• Petrol consumption 27 Nov 2002 (Forum)
  I have been back in the UK for 4 weeks and I am using an Alfa 166 2.0 twin spark throughout mainland europe it has been doing 32 mpg according to the computer ,the same driving on Uk fuel i have dropped to 23mpg .I thought there must be a problem with the car but everythink checks out ok.I have
• RPM for Max Fuel Economy 13 Jun 2002 (Forum)
  A few days ago somebody posted a question concerning what was the best rpm for Max fuel consumption? I replied that, so far as I was aware, it was the rpm at which max torque is developed and added that this might be hard to find out. I have since found that the torque figure and the rpm
• Aircon and fuel consumption 27 Aug 2001 (Forum)
  There have been a few posts recently about the affect of airon on fuel consumption. I've recently been running with the aircon permanently on, and the following are the results of brim-to-brim tests under the same driving condiditons (approximately 1200 miles in each test, 2 fills). Aircon OFF
• Diesel Fuel Prices 27 Jan 2001 (Forum)
  Can anyone explain to me why diesel fuel is dearer than unleaded in UK. Diferential seems to be about 3p per litre. I work in Italy and have unleaded car there and diesel car in UK. Unfortunately the wrong way round. Lastt week Super unleaded cost 64 p per litre and diesel 56p per litre
• Ford Fusion (2002 - 2008) - 03 1.4 tdci stopped after fuel fill. 16 Jan 2010 (Forum)
  on his mini forecourt not a smug salesman. I'd taken the car on a test drive earlier on in the week and all was fine. Anyway the car was mot'd yesterday I got in it today after handing over the money drove about 50 yards to a filling station (the fuel gauge was on the bottom bar), put a tenner
• Mondeo Diesel run dry 17 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  of life from the engine then nothing. We noticed some disel leaking from the 2nd cylinder plug (probably from the fuel line which feeds to this plug, none of the others were leaking the fuel line leading to/from this plug was also saturated with fuel - but none of the other fuel lines between plugs were
• Honda Africa Twin crf1000 - Honda Africa Twin im rejecting 4 Apr 2023 (Forum)
  , problem due to fuel starvation to the fuel pump. So complete fuel system replaced including the tank, under warranty. All is fine, until....September 2019, bike cuts out again on the motorway, almost die!!!! Again breakdown home and back to dealers. Bike now on 22k miles. After 3
• BMW 523i E39 - What stopped my car?! 5 Feb 2024 (Forum)
  Hi, I wonder if anyone can help! On Saturday, my 2000 year 523i suddenly died on the motorway. It was like it had run out of fuel. AA diagnosed fuel pump as no fuel at rail and it was recovered back. New pump arrived today and fitted. Car wouldn't start
• Economy question 16 Sep 2022 (Forum)
  I think like most people that if you put your foot down you use more fuel BUT If I travelled say 70 miles on a motorway in 1 hour at 70 mph would I actually use more fuel than if I travelled 70 miles in 2 hours at 35mph? I would by cruising in top gear at 70 and assume the fuel ratio
• Nissan Micra - Fuel Tank Capacity 1 Oct 2021 (Forum)
  good morning, this is my first post/question on these forum. i am due to have my car go in for a service/m.o.t. tomorrow and i have been advised that the car that Nissan will give me is a Micra. they have told me that it will have a quarter tank of fuel and that i will need to re-fill
• 2005 Ford Fiesta 1.4 Zetec petrol - 2005 Ford Fiesta: stuck fuel filler cap 9 Jan 2019 (Forum)
  Hi all,   Tried to fill up with petrol today and at the garage I couldn't get the fuel cap unlocked. It's the sort where you have to put the car key in to unlock the external filler cap and then there is an internal cap which screws off. It's the locking mechanism
• Fuel Pre-Payment 14 May 2018 (Forum)
  if you want to pay by cash ? Reminds me of visiits to States when you had to pay for fuel before delivery which made it difficult to 'fill it up' ! Do they still do that ? I plea for the return of petrol pump attendants  I loved this bit: "Mastercard said the move was designed
• Any - Shell fuels - data sheets 31 Jul 2017 (Forum)
  If anyone's at all interested in the exact specifications of the fuels sold on Shell forecourts in the UK, the company's own material data sheets are accessible from this link: http://www.epc.shell.com/default.asp Just select the UK as the country, then click through to fuel
• Seat Toledo MK4 1.6 TDI - Changing Fuel Filter on Seat Toledo TDI - first ti 15 Dec 2016 (Forum)
  Hi all, First time posting!   I was hoping someone could help me with changing my fuel filter. I have done it before with my old 05 Golf but ive never seen this filter type before..   http://picclick.co.uk/Crosland-Fuel-Filter-282188815170.html
• Fuel Benefit - It's not always a Benefit 14 Jul 2016 (Forum)
  As we do alot of work with companies supplying company cars to employees, the question of Fuel Benefit comes up alot. Often it is perceived as preferable for a company to supply the employee with a fully expenced car (i.e. all personal mileage paid for by the company too). Many
• Ford Focus MK2 2.0 TDCI 2010 Reg - Ford Focus 2.0 TDCI high pressure fuel pump change 3 Jul 2016 (Forum)
  it in and diagnosed erratic fuel pressures. Says the fuel pump needs to be changed at a cost of £1800. I was wondering if it's worth getting a refurbished or second hand pump and installing it myself. How difficult is this job and any advice would be appreciated.
• 2013 BMW 5 Series Touring SE 520d - Wheel alignment and fuel consumption 5 May 2016 (Forum)
  I've just had a full new set of tyres fitted to my 2013 BMW 5 Series Touring at 29,000 miles, the garage also did a wheel alignment check, and some adjustment was made to the toe on all 4 wheels.  My fuel consumption has now increased from around 53-54 mpg to consistently under 50. The new
• - Supermarket Fuel Telegraph Cars Section Today 2 Jul 2015 (Forum)
  Writing in todays motoring section Alex Robbins says there is no empirical evidence to show that Supermarket fuel is inferior. But a local company that manufactures Spectroscopy equipment have told me that when used to check fuels, the supermarket diesel was found to have less additives