Fed up of being ruled with no say.

[Tony Walker]

Hint of a strike and everyones gone crazy, i had to get petrol and didnt fancy it in the rush this morning then on the way home it was manic and 2 of the local stations empty and the only one with fuel had about 20cars waiting at 11pm??????? to make it worse theyve shot the petrol up from 1.34 to 1.40 im so pissed off. such a blatant abuse of everyones need for it............. so rant over i google a cycle route planner and my route to work is only35mins by bike only 20mins longer than my car so im on the hunt for a bike............. any advice anyone?? second hands fine and 200ish quid?

[scratcher]

I'm always blind to this sorta stuff happening until I go to get petrol. Think I'll be riding a bit more now too!

Have a look on ebay at Carrera bikes mate, they're well made and go cheap second hand

[T.K]

Get a road bike dude. If you ride it well and fit they are quicker than a car across town. They are also pretty good fun!

I have beaten a car from London Bridge to ORPINGTON on my road bike on a Saturday afternoon!

[djinuk]

as always hype makes people go crazy and it screws the lot up!,

[Matt Cole]

****er in my local garage put £12 in his range rover!! As if that would even fill an injector........................cock

[clee]

I despair sometimes
Have we really become a nation populated by halfwits I blame 24hr news .........
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17545739

[Gttnutter]

It's clearly not to do with the hike of fuel but the pay the receive. If anything it should be turned into a national boycott for fuel prices.

[tiff_lee]

Check out pinkbike.com, in the buy/sell section filter to europe/UK and loads of bikes/gear on there. May get a better deal being an enthusiast site so no ebay inflation.

[Matt Cole]

Good old Thatcher's Britain again! I hope these Conservative **** heads get the boot next election!

[Bigfoot]

Good old Thatcher's Britain again! I hope these Conservative **** heads get the boot next election!

Well definately dont want Labour put back in there as we are stuck in this position because of their stupidity

Its crazy how the governments always spend money in the least sensible way and thinking selling off to other companies will be worthwhile doing. Like the hospitals, how can we pay somebody else the same amount of money we are putting into the hospitals, that company then runs the hospitals supposedly better than the original people can and also make a profit else they wouldn't be running it, how does that make sense

We need to get this country into shape by not punishing the people who work, and pay their taxes, its the other side who dont and sponge of the country, dont cut down schools, hospitals, road development and loads of other things and stop paying out money to people who dont want to help themselves. And why give money to these arts and crafts and things like that, how many people go see them, im guessing not that many else they wont be strugglying to keep a float with money, if they cant make money now giving them more will just postpone whats going to happen to them anyway, close.

[Renault 5 GT Turbo]

I think it was so irresponsible for the prev government to bid for the olympics when they knew their budget could not accommodate it...priorities all wrong.

£billions could have gone into reducing our countrys debt, taking the 'claimed' needs for such extortionate taxes.

[Trevhib]

The cost of the Olympics is a drop in the ocean in comparison to the gigantic national debt pile.

Also, the Olympics will most likely be profitable for the UK economy and that's in addition to the other benefits it brings in terms of improved infrastructure and legacy of those stadia that will remain after the show is over.

[Alex]

If I can't get petrol over the wekend I'll be on my bike next week, I refuse to wait an hour+ in a queue to be arse burgled! The only thing I'm bothered about is we have to ferry my son to nursery and obviously I can't do that on a bike. Thanks to all the selfish f*ckwits filling all their jerry cans in the petrol stations!

[The new Bill J]

I left my stockpile of Petrol at home, and went for a pint - Now I cant find it anywhere.....

Stupid Jerry McCann!

[Alex]

Going for a pints cheaper these days!

[The new Bill J]

It'll be fun IF there's a fuel strike. I can't cycle at the mo, due to my foot being shot to bits, and the Evo can hold 170 miles worth of fuel - Enough to get to work and back, for a few days

[Bigfoot]

I dont worry about how many miles I get to the tank in petrol, I work on how many months I can get in between filling up with petrol so I know its not good but I dont really notice any increase in charges really as I can never remember how much it cost me to fill up last time.

[BluntyR5GTT]

christ its a good job i dont go off mpg etc, i put £25 in my car last saturday afternoon, it was all virtually gone by sunday morning, and i aint done that many miles, bloody thing drinks more than me

[The new Bill J]

I've just arrived at the petrol station to fill up my car, only to discover that they are limiting purchases of fuel to £20 to prevent panic buying.....

God knows how they expect me to get back home

[TrixNFlix]

Thats it, panic buying gimps have made my mind up. Diesel runaround is going and gonna start cycling again.

[clee]

I need to fill the 21 as it's on empty AND I need to fill a jerry can for a GTA in the garage but am afraid people will think I'm like them ............

[bod 182]

headless chickens listening to pricks running the country thats why i never vote

[Adam L]

Dawn watched some **** put £7 in his car earlier, clearly just to top the tank up. What a ****ing bellend. Usually this sort of thing doesn't affect me as I've had 3 cars to choose from but I only run on optimax with one car now and most people don't want to pay the nigh on £1.50 a litre it costs around here, so I'm still safe I guess

[Sparkie]

as i was running on fumes, i thought id pop by our local tesco- saw the queue, parked up, went inside and bought 6 x 5litres of sunflower oil. Gotta love the old scenic diesels...... £1 a litre too...

[Dave Reed]

headless chickens listening to pricks running the country thats why i never vote

I don't either, but what they say if you don't vote that you agree to who/what's happening

[GT TURBO BEN]

140 for fuel yes please come this way it 150.9 151.9

[scratcher]

I left my stockpile of Petrol at home, and went for a pint - Now I cant find it anywhere.....

Stupid Jerry McCann!

What are you like Bill!

So glad I don't have my Evo anymore with the fuel rations. Diesel has shown me the light 50+mpg's baby

[5alldaway]

toyota aygo 60mpg for me hehe

oh and i work from home so no need to worry

[philg]

I only run on optimax with one car now and most people don't want to pay the nigh on £1.50 a litre it costs around here, so I'm still safe I guess

[Alan]

It's clearly not to do with the hike of fuel but the pay the receive. If anything it should be turned into a national boycott for fuel prices.

Who's pay? The drivers?

[D4WNO]

It's just annoying for people who actually needed petrol yesterday (like me lol). Luckily I was behind said numpty filling up with less than £8 so I didn't have to wait too long

Another reason Adam isn't too bothered about running low on Optimax is because he thinks muggins here is going to drive him round should he run out...On yer bike son

[Trevhib]

as i was running on fumes, i thought id pop by our local tesco- saw the queue, parked up, went inside and bought 6 x 5litres of sunflower oil. Gotta love the old scenic diesels...... £1 a litre too...

Last time I looked at the cooking oil thing it seemed as though you still needed to faff around to make it work without killing certain bits of your car.

Does your Scenic tolerate the use of cooking oil then Mark? All the time or just on the occasion? Have you had to do anything to it?

[Sparkie]

Last time I looked at the cooking oil thing it seemed as though you still needed to faff around to make it work without killing certain bits of your car.

Does your Scenic tolerate the use of cooking oil then Mark? All the time or just on the occasion? Have you had to do anything to it?

you can use it neat, straight from the supermarket on both pug/cit 1.9TD engines and renault DT and DTi. as long as they have the bosch pump.
not hdi or dci!!!!
i generally try to keep it 50/50 mix, wth diesel. i have run 100% on warm weeks, but starting can be an issue at around 5deg C or lower. i sometimes run abit of acetone 1ml per litre to aid starting and running. ive caused a pump to start leaking before, but that was due to extended use of 100% veg, or i might have over done it with the acetone. - either way i changed the pump with a scrapper, and its worked ok since. (i never had any probs on the citroen 1.9td i used to run)

[djinuk]

my 1.9 xud peugeot td engine did 30k on 100% neat veg, it never struggled to start but it did have a lumpy idle when cold.

Bosch pump is a must on them engines though, lucas is weak as piss.

[Trevhib]

Good info gents

Is it a simple job to work out which fuel pump these cars have on them?

[Tony Walker]

Dont kno what one of our customers uses in his old pug but it smells like bacon butties when he pulls up

[Trevhib]

[Sparkie]

Good info gents

Is it a simple job to work out which fuel pump these cars have on them?

thankfully its printed on the side of the pump in big letters.....

[Alex]

Dont kno what one of our customers uses in his old pug but it smells like bacon butties when he pulls up

Bonus!