Filling up

[NickFitz]

Could you knock that up graphically?



Ah.

OK, OK… give me a chance



(It won't be tonight though, as I'm having a beer and about to watch a DVD.)

[barrydidit]

I've got weekly emails from petrolprices.com showing the price at my local cheapest places back to March 2007 (when it was 85.9p/litre). The price first broke 100p/litre in December 2007, hovering around the 99.9p - 102.9 mark till March 2008 when it headed steadily upwards to 116.9p in July, then back down under a quid in October 2008, dropping to 82.9p by January 2009. It went up to a quid again in August, and has stayed over that ever since, reaching 132.9p in May 2011, then 138.7p (ASDA now like to stay 0.2p below Sainsbury's over the road) in April 2012, and carried on around the 126p - 136p mark ever since. It fell below 120p on 3 November, and was down to 112.7p last Monday - but when I filled up midweek, it was down to about 108p at Sainsbury's IIRC.

At some point I'll have to knock up a script to extract the prices from all those emails and draw a pretty graph, but on the current showing it looks like it will possibly get below 100p in the New Year, for the first time since August 2009

£1.19 for diesel this aft. That's as far as my research goes.

In other car news, i had yet another fecking flat this week. I was on my way to quickfit when i noticed a backstreet tyre shop next door. They fixed* it for a fiver, didn't make me wait around for 45 minutes whilst conducting a mini mot, didn't need to know where i lived, didn't need my phone number and didn't need the date of my insurance renewal. Very impressed. They also let the kids stay in the car when they jacked it up. Great fun.

* - it was a slow puncture so the proof of their fix will be on monday morning I expect.

[mudskipper]

Mr ms got a puncture in a brand new tyre - literally < 100 miles. £290 for another new tyre

[NickFitz]

£1.19 for diesel this aft. That's as far as my research goes.

In other car news, i had yet another fecking flat this week. I was on my way to quickfit when i noticed a backstreet tyre shop next door. They fixed* it for a fiver, didn't make me wait around for 45 minutes whilst conducting a mini mot, didn't need to know where i lived, didn't need my phone number and didn't need the date of my insurance renewal. Very impressed. They also let the kids stay in the car when they jacked it up. Great fun.

* - it was a slow puncture so the proof of their fix will be on monday morning I expect.

I get all my wheel stuff done by a smallish local place that specialises in such things, and they're excellent. More than once when I've been there, they've been sorting out the complete hash that KwickFit have made of somebody's car.

[Paddy]

Mr ms got a puncture in a brand new tyre - literally < 100 miles. £290 for another new tyre

You can buy a car on eBay for that.

[vetran]

etyres £40 for the mighty Mondeo.

sailed through the MOT again this year.

£65 to fill the tank though

[darmstadt]

Mr ms got a puncture in a brand new tyre - literally < 100 miles. £290 for another new tyre

Thats a lot, what the hell does he drive? I have 275/35 ZR19 on mine and they're only around €220 which is a fair bit. I just had to get a set of winter wheels and tyres which after haggling and some discounts for just over €2,000 which I was well chuffed with and petrol was only €1,45 a liter yesterday, which was nice too...

[mudskipper]

He's got some sort of Vectra SRi thingy. Old. Tyre was dead - was an emergency, so had to take what was available.

[Sysman]

I get all my wheel stuff done by a smallish local place that specialises in such things, and they're excellent. More than once when I've been there, they've been sorting out the complete hash that KwickFit have made of somebody's car.

It's worth looking for places like that.

The cheerful service is a definite bonus.

[Zippy]

£1.19 for diesel this aft. That's as far as my research goes.

In other car news, i had yet another fecking flat this week. I was on my way to quickfit when i noticed a backstreet tyre shop next door. They fixed* it for a fiver, didn't make me wait around for 45 minutes whilst conducting a mini mot, didn't need to know where i lived, didn't need my phone number and didn't need the date of my insurance renewal. Very impressed. They also let the kids stay in the car when they jacked it up. Great fun.

* - it was a slow puncture so the proof of their fix will be on monday morning I expect.

One of our neighbours is such an establishment. He used to work for KwikFit and the amount of ..ahem.. upselling they had to do to keep their jobs was shocking. He seems to be doing well now.