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Marcus89 Proficient

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my fill up this week was about $85, and that was just for driving to and from work. fuel economy was dead on 9.0L/100kms.

How do you (or anyone for that matter) get below 10/100km. I was doing mostly highway commute to work when housesitting for a mate and didn't look like I could get better than that this is in a manual rb25det neo

mad082 Grand Master

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that fuel economy was for my shitty old VT wagon. my 33 never got below about 16L/100kms, but that was due to driving style. i did get dead on 10L/100kms on a trip to brissy though, and that included a bit of city driving.

GTR-N1 Grand Master

GTR-N1

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Makes me wonder how people are claming that they are getting 8L/100km (or less) for their Skylines in one of the old threads on here.

Petrol Consumpt'n run goes like...

TAS Top of Mt Wellington > Hobart

NSW Robertson > Albion Park

VIC Top of Mt Dandenong > Industrial Estate

SA Burnside > Adelaide CBD

WA Kings Park > Perth CBD

QLD Top of Castle Hill > Townsville CBD

Lol

mad082 Grand Master

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i pay attention to the price of fuel, only because i directly pass about 8 servos on my way to and from work and the price of fuel can vary by up to 10c a litre, and since i generally put in about 50 to 60L a week, the possible savings add up. i accept the price that fuel is these days, i'm more just comparing the price differences.

something a lot of people don't take into account these days when complaining about the price of fuel compared to 10/15 years ago is inflation. lets say inflation is an average of 3%, if the price of fuel was $1 a litre back in 2002, then if the price of fuel was $1.30 a litre today then, not taking into account compound interest, the price of fuel is technically the same as back in 2002.

Nee-san Grand Master

Nee-san

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I only have 1 car atm sad.gif

but when you have to pay 1k for rego + maintenance on 2nd car, so save a few hundred bucks in fuel bills I don't mind

It's still economical for me to own two cars including all rego servicing and fuel then drive my GT-R daily.

GTR-N1 Grand Master

GTR-N1

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i pay attention to the price of fuel, only because i directly pass about 8 servos on my way to and from work and the price of fuel can vary by up to 10c a litre, and since i generally put in about 50 to 60L a week, the possible savings add up. i accept the price that fuel is these days, i'm more just comparing the price differences.

something a lot of people don't take into account these days when complaining about the price of fuel compared to 10/15 years ago is inflation. lets say inflation is an average of 3%, if the price of fuel was $1 a litre back in 2002, then if the price of fuel was $1.30 a litre today then, not taking into account compound interest, the price of fuel is technically the same as back in 2002.

Fair call.

If money does continue to get tighter though, I think that those on struggle street won't just keep their eye on prices: they'll possibly skimp on maintenance too.

That makes me wonder if mechanics right now are encountering less servicing and more catastrophic failures.

Thoughts?

The Bogan Grand Master

The Bogan

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How much oil is out there to burn though, dont get me wrong, burning fuel (petrol) in a motor is fun, but, due to it taking a couple of million years for oil to be made by our mother earth it will sooner or later run out, as it gets more scarce the price will increase.

And I dont think there is enough fertile land to keep up with food and the fuel (E85) consumption.

Any way, in under 4 billion years the world will get consumed by the sun.

And dont even get me started on how the earth recycles itself and that all the land you see now will be recycled by subduction in half a billion years.

How good is Geology..

Daleo Grand Master

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Fair call.

If money does continue to get tighter though, I think that those on struggle street won't just keep their eye on prices: they'll possibly skimp on maintenance too.

That makes me wonder if mechanics right now are encountering less servicing and more catastrophic failures.

Thoughts?

I know a couple of mechanics who are really struggling at the moment; a lot of people are waiting to start big dollar builds and want to see what is going to happen with the changes to the Engineers certificate regs, and now are noticing that their "bread & butter" servicing work is slowing down too.

Whether this is down to less kays being done, therefore taking longer to roll around, or whether people are trying to tackle maintenance themselves or not at all...

mad082 Grand Master

mad082

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don't forget that newer cars have much longer service intervals than old cars. most new cars have at least 10,000km service intervals, but some are up to 15,000kms (unlike the r35 gtr which needs to be serviced twice for every tank of fuel, lol)

mad082 Grand Master

mad082

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How much oil is out there to burn though, dont get me wrong, burning fuel (petrol) in a motor is fun, but, due to it taking a couple of million years for oil to be made by our mother earth it will sooner or later run out, as it gets more scarce the price will increase.

And I dont think there is enough fertile land to keep up with food and the fuel (E85) consumption.

Any way, in under 4 billion years the world will get consumed by the sun.

And dont even get me started on how the earth recycles itself and that all the land you see now will be recycled by subduction in half a billion years.

How good is Geology..

rough estimates say about 40 years at current usage. it won't just be oil and fuel prices that will be affected though. look around your house and you will see that the majority of stuff is connected to oil in some way. plastic and rubber are the 2 main products that are oil based. take everything containing that out of the house and you might have be left with a table and chairs and some kitchen goods.

jiffo Mentor

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My biggest factor was the inability to pass on the full fuel price increases, I was always behind.

A quick check shows me paying 0.86 per litre back in 01. Less GST and excise gives a net fuel cost of $0.40 per litre.

I'm now paying 1.52 per litre on a good day, which comes back to $1.00 net per litre.

Even though fuel represents only one part of my costs, I'm not selling product at a 250% price increase since 01, in fact sale price has barely altered but fuel cost does impact on my ability to further develop.

Farming in Australia hey ????

GTR-N1 Grand Master

GTR-N1

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My biggest factor was the inability to pass on the full fuel price increases, I was always behind.

A quick check shows me paying 0.86 per litre back in 01. Less GST and excise gives a net fuel cost of $0.40 per litre.

I'm now paying 1.52 per litre on a good day, which comes back to $1.00 net per litre.

Even though fuel represents only one part of my costs, I'm not selling product at a 250% price increase since 01, in fact sale price has barely altered but fuel cost does impact on my ability to further develop.

Farming in Australia hey ????

If I was farming jiffo, I'd hate the paperwork.

If I was into paperwork, I couldn't see myself as a farmer.

How do you do both?

Create a sort of mindset for that part of the day?

Should farmers get a fuel subsidy?

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