This Week's Cheapest Petrol Prices
| Published: 17th November 2008 19:46 |
This week's cheapest petrol prices: The 5 cheapest stations within 5 miles of BR5 for unleaded petrol are.......
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5 cheapest stations within 5 miles of "BR51DZ" for Unleaded...
5 cheapest stations within 5 miles of "BR51DZ" for Unleaded...
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Station : Shell Sidcup
Address : Sidcup Road, New Eltham, London, SE9 3AL
Brand : Shell
Distance : 3.53
Price : 94.9p
Updated : 15-11-2008
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Station : Shell Mottingham
Address : Sidcup Road, Mottingham, London, SE9 3AF
Brand : Shell
Distance : 4.08
Price : 94.9p
Updated : 15-11-2008
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Station : Sainsburys Eltham
Address : Footscray Road, Eltham, London, SE9 2TW
Brand : Sainsburys
Distance : 4.56
Price : 94.9p
Updated : 15-11-2008
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Station : W J King Garages Bromley
Address : Bromley Common, Bromley, BR2 9RW
Brand : Texaco
Distance : 3.16
Price : 95.8p
Updated : 16-11-2008
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Station : Perry Street Connect
Address : Perry Street, Chislehurst, BR7 6HB
Brand : Bp
Distance : 2.39
Price : 95.9p
Updated : 16-11-2008
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Top Tips to Saving Money on Petrol*
While paying less for your petrol will save you money; using less petrol helps too. The obvious route is to use your car less.... do you really need to drive to the local shop? Yet even without this, you can use less fuel by driving more efficiently; it's estimated that someone who averages 35 miles per gallon (in old money) could get 40 mpg by driving better. This is a nearly 15% saving....
Always fill up the car before the indicator drops to a quarter full tank. Thus there's no panic and you've enough time to get to a cheaper petrol station. Leave it longer and you'll fill up at ‘the next one I see', and that usually means paying more.
Only use ‘better fuel' if your car can cope. Many stations sell ‘high performance fuels' yet there's little or no performance difference for most non-performance cars; so only fill up with the super-fuels if you've a sports-type car that you've been specifically advised will actually utilise the petrol correctly.
Keep your tires correctly inflated. Lower tire pressure increases the drag on a car meaning you need more fuel, so check the pressures are correct regularly.
Fill up at night, but don't overfill. Petrol pumps are calibrated by volume, so fill up at night when it's cold and you get a miniscule bit extra. This is also a reason not to overfill the car after the nozzle clunks, as any excess may go out of the overflow and be wasted.
The following tips are courtesy of the RAC on how to drive more fuel efficiently.
Drive smoothly in the correct gear
Always drive in the highest gear possible without labouring the engine, plus think ahead and slow down gradually, rather than heavily braking late. This will increase fuel efficiency by up to 30%.
A lighter car uses less fuel.
De-clutter your car as extra weight means more fuel use.
Get into cruise control. If your car offers cruise control, be sure to use it on long journeys. It'll help save fuel.
Keep your filters clean.
Dirty air filters increase fuel consumption by a significant amount, so make sure you check and change them as often as possible. They're inexpensive and quite easy to fit in most cars. Full details should be in your owner's manual.
Don't keep the engine running unnecessarily.
Drive off as soon as you start up and switch off the engine as soon as you reach your destination. Air conditioning also uses an incredible amount of fuel so make sure it's turned off unless you really need it.
Take your roof rack off. Take it off when it's not used to reduce the drag on the car and also don't unnecessarily open the window either as that makes driving less efficient.
Look out for supermarket petrol promotions. Be sure to take advantage of supermarkets' various petrol offers when they're available. Often supermarket petrol stations are the cheapest, but even when they're not, by utilising their discount schemes correctly you can save. Always think about how you use these schemes to the best advantage, for example, when Tesco's running its "spend £50 to get a voucher for an extra 5p/off a litre" promotion, and you're doing a £100 shop, then split the shopping/payment into two to get double the vouchers. Use loyalty schemes. Buying petrol is a regular outlay, and you spend more on it in a year than you think (e.g £30 a week is £1,500 a year!). As many petrol stations (including the supermarket ones) run some form of loyalty scheme, it's worth signing up for the schemes for the forecourts you'll use most regularly to get a little bit extra back. However, never choose a petrol station just for its loyalty scheme, as the difference is small compared to petrol price variance (*source: moneysavingexpert.com)
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