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I'm finding the £100 limit on pay at pump is a pain, I hit the limit yesterday even though the reserve light hadn't come on. Now if I want to fill the tank I have to queue in the kiosk to pay.
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Mussels wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:09 am I'm finding the £100 limit on pay at pump is a pain, I hit the limit yesterday even though the reserve light hadn't come on. Now if I want to fill the tank I have to queue in the kiosk to pay.
That's a huge tank !!!
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Yorick wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:11 am
Mussels wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:09 am I'm finding the £100 limit on pay at pump is a pain, I hit the limit yesterday even though the reserve light hadn't come on. Now if I want to fill the tank I have to queue in the kiosk to pay.
That's a huge tank !!!
Not in the UK prices its not
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Had my first £100+ tank full at the last fill up. I had run it down to the low fuel warning, which I don't usually. Tank is smaller than on my old Volvo V70. I've stopped putting the premium stuff in too. :lol:
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SLK was £107 a couple of weeks back. For a small car, it has a bloody big tank. :lol:

Gremlinette had her first moan about how much it cost to put petrol in her car the other night. Welcome to the bottomless money pit of car ownership. :P
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Yorick wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:11 am
Mussels wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:09 am I'm finding the £100 limit on pay at pump is a pain, I hit the limit yesterday even though the reserve light hadn't come on. Now if I want to fill the tank I have to queue in the kiosk to pay.
That's a huge tank !!!
£111 in the campervan last weekend and it already had over a 1/4 of a tank! :wtf:
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Count Steer wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:25 am Had my first £100+ tank full at the last fill up. I had run it down to the low fuel warning, which I don't usually. Tank is smaller than on my old Volvo V70. I've stopped putting the premium stuff in too. :lol:
I've started putting 95ron in too to save a bit of dosh but tbh i find i get better economy from super, so what i save at the pump buying 95ron i tend to make up in mpg when i fill up with super (99ron), so i'm back on the super again now.

It's super...;)
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Greenman wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:50 am
Count Steer wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:25 am Had my first £100+ tank full at the last fill up. I had run it down to the low fuel warning, which I don't usually. Tank is smaller than on my old Volvo V70. I've stopped putting the premium stuff in too. :lol:
I've started putting 95ron in too to save a bit of dosh but tbh i find i get better economy from super, so what i save at the pump buying 95ron i tend to make up in mpg when i fill up with super (99ron), so i'm back on the super again now.

It's super...;)
I've found the same.

Had my first £99 fill up with the car last weekend, although I did also fill up a 5l plastic can for the mower. (it runs a LOT better on super!)
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Commercial diesel pumps sometimes have this overridden, and the 200l maximum delivery too.

Some years ago I filled my classic Range Rover and my boat on the same trip to the pumps. That's when I learned about the 200l limit.
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Learning that P.J. Bakers in Wapping has closed after God only knows how many years. A proper old-school bakers shop that was like stepping back into the 60's, with prices to match. I used to stop in there all the time on the way to work, fill up with huge traditional cakes and stick 'em on a plate in the middle of the office.

I know it was family-run and they were cracking on a bit, so maybe there was nobody to hand it on to.

God, how I'll miss those London Cheesecakes...

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Kids. They're just bloody horrible sometimes.

We had a school thing yesterday evening and Gremlinette asked if we could pick up one her school friends on the way. Not a problem, so into the car pops Riley, aged 17. Nice kid, bit geeky but chatty and generally pleasant. When we dropped him off I commented that he was a nice kid. Gremlinette tells us that he gets the piss taken out of him as school coz his mum's in a wheelchair and it gets him really down. :thumbdown:

Little shits. You'd think at 17 they'd be a bit more fucking mature than rip the piss over something like that. :angry-cussingblack:
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gremlin wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:00 pm Kids. They're just bloody horrible sometimes.

We had a school thing yesterday evening and Gremlinette asked if we could pick up one her school friends on the way. Not a problem, so into the car pops Riley, aged 17. Nice kid, bit geeky but chatty and generally pleasant. When we dropped him off I commented that he was a nice kid. Gremlinette tells us that he gets the piss taken out of him as school coz his mum's in a wheelchair and it gets him really down. :thumbdown:

Little shits. You'd think at 17 they'd be a bit more fucking mature than rip the piss over something like that. :angry-cussingblack:
I was probably like that at 17, and older! Most of my mates were too. I don't think its really who you are, its just showing off in a dumb way and goading each other to be worse etc.
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gremlin wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:00 pm Kids. They're just bloody horrible sometimes.

We had a school thing yesterday evening and Gremlinette asked if we could pick up one her school friends on the way. Not a problem, so into the car pops Riley, aged 17. Nice kid, bit geeky but chatty and generally pleasant. When we dropped him off I commented that he was a nice kid. Gremlinette tells us that he gets the piss taken out of him as school coz his mum's in a wheelchair and it gets him really down. :thumbdown:

Little shits. You'd think at 17 they'd be a bit more fucking mature than rip the piss over something like that. :angry-cussingblack:
Maybe he identified as an 8 year old?
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gremlin wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:00 pm Little shits. You'd think at 17 they'd be a bit more fucking mature than rip the piss over something like that. :angry-cussingblack:
AFAICR the horrid zoo-mentality nastiness dropped off a cliff after secondary school, pretty sure there was little of it at sixth form. Nearly 40 years later I still find it a little irritating life was dominated by unnecessarily stressful schooldays.
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DefTrap wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 4:50 pm
gremlin wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:00 pm Little shits. You'd think at 17 they'd be a bit more fucking mature than rip the piss over something like that. :angry-cussingblack:
AFAICR the horrid zoo-mentality nastiness dropped off a cliff after secondary school, pretty sure there was little of it at sixth form. Nearly 40 years later I still find it a little irritating life was dominated by unnecessarily stressful schooldays.
Depends on the person and schooling imho.

At my college (private school) it was rife, at my Uni (mostly ex-public school) it was definitely there (but tempered by the normal students), I've worked in places with a very definite schoolyard mentality.
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How like the mainland this place has become. There's now double yellow lines, a zebra crossing and I saw someone walking about the village carrying a take away coffee cup.
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Potter wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:49 pm
DefTrap wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 4:50 pm
AFAICR the horrid zoo-mentality nastiness dropped off a cliff after secondary school...
Lol, yeah none of that on this forum.
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weeksy wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 6:07 pm young
It's all relative I suppose.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 6:10 pm
weeksy wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 6:07 pm young
It's all relative I suppose.
I knew I should have left that one out
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weeksy wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 6:11 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 6:10 pm
weeksy wrote: Wed Jun 08, 2022 6:07 pm young
It's all relative I suppose.
I knew I should have left that one out
Memory is the first to go :(