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how much money would it cost to drive 80 miles
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The title is a bit odd but my point is i'm looking at a university which is in cambridge approx 40 miles away from me but i want to commute as i don't want to live in halls. So my question is how much money would i be spending on petrol to drive approx 80 miles a day(there and back)
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I drove a small Fiesta for a 50 mile commute and it cost me about £13 per return journey of 100 miles. Plus parking of about £3 a day. But petrol prices have come down a smudge since then.
Mist- I don't exactly have much of a choice in terms of commuting if i go to london uni's its still a commute on train and tube.
eta: why do you have to go to a london uni??
With no traffic, expect £7-£9 for each return journey, if the car is good and looked after properly. Get stuck in traffic, and forget any expectations. I reckon you'll use a litre in around 20 minutes of idling, so you'll waste a gallon every hour and a half of idling. It all adds up... Stopping and starting will use a bit more, too.
I don't have to but i don't want to be far from home so it's either a london uni, anglia ruskin or hertfordshire uni that i'd go to
(Miles your driving / miles per gallon your car gets ) cost of gas per gallon = cost to drive x amount of miles.
Example:
(80/27)2.5= about 7.40 to go 80 miles.
It'll have a 1.2 engine...not that it'll make much difference.
They do make a 1.1 punto as well actually smart arse
Yeah my first Punto was a 1.1 55S Model (First Generation)
IF that's what you got and you're doign that many miles worth seeing if it needs a tuneup - mine did was about £20 to get done but saved me loads on petrol and drove a lot better afterwards.
God knows what 40 mile is like on your route but 15 miles towards London is about 90 minutes to 2 hours in traffic depending onthe time of the day and how many phantom road works are there (without anyone ever actually working on them)
And 100 times more annoying when it's taken you 2 hours to get there for one lecture due to shitty traffic, and the lecturer is off ill and you have to go straight home.
Yes I am speaking from experience :grump:
however I was going the other way from the rest of the traffic - out of london in the morning and back in the evening it would have been awful going the other way.
I quite enjoyed it - as i got to listen to the radio lots and knew what was going on, now i work in London and what with getting on the tube and stuff it takes me a hour to go around 10 miles to work on public transport.
I think my car was a 1.6 or a 1.4 and I could go for 4 days there and back on a full tank of petrol - but obv all cars eat petrol at a different rate. I was mostly driving on the motorway and then on country lanes.
I don't want to live in halls as i couldn't do the sharing kitchen thing and i cant handle noisy neighbours so the parties would do my head in.
Yeah everyones different. My mate lived in the halls last year and for the first few weeks she couldn't handle it. She's not shy as such, and enjoys partying, but she struggles to share a space with people she doesn't know well and being with about 7 other people all sharing the kitchen and living area had her in tears on the phone to me one night, she didn't feel happy. She's rented a house with some mates this year and I've barely heard from her.
If you know you wont like halls, I wouldn't recommend forcing yourself, if you're willing to do the commute. My aunties Punto is good for petrol apparently, and so is my friends (Think theirs could be a 1.2 though, I know my aunties probably is.)
Maybe in Wales they do, but we've moved on over here
Seriously though, i don't even think they make 1.1s anymore.