[RPCCS]

You are right ,although we are skint , the wife says being poor is not having money to buy food.
   But if fuel prices continue to rise as they are, its going to get to the stage whereby people will have to dipose of their vehicles in order to feed their families,with of course the exception of all the government members who will just claim the money in expenses and buy 3rd homes It will soon become too costly to run a vehicle and our custies can only afford so much so our prices cannot just keep increasing to keep up with fuel prices, it could reach the stage where large cleaning companies may have to lay off staff and 1 man  businesses may just cease trading ,unable to cope, with escalating costs. I know this is extreme but its not impossible.

[AJ]

I don't fancy making it 1m & 1.

[Stevie G]

no good to us i know but 25p a litre in the caribbean 

[Dean Taberner]

How much does it cost people to fill their vans now?

[CleanClear]

How much does it cost people to fill their vans now?

My experience is up and down like the OP. When i have half a tank in and i fill up its about £35, and when its empty it cost about £70. The one thing i've figured out is that the lower that needle is the more its going to cost 

[trippyboy]

How much does it cost people to fill their vans now?

You bored Dean? 

[PoleKing]

Van, £120 from dry.
Car, £130.

Good job we don't go far!

[robert mitchell]

two of my friends have run there vans on just filtered cooking oil.

one has added over 160000 miles to his vw t4 that he bought with just over 100000 on the clock (now at nearly 287000 miles)

Only thing that has gone wrong was the oil pump at 255000 miles .

You can't just use any van /car but lists are available online .

You will need to drive an older (bosch injection pump) vehicle , no common rail or modern injection systems .

The ideal van is a 2.5 tdi vw t4 (the late models 2002/3 were lex compliant and can be found with aircon/elec windows etc and a 1200kg payload.

They are almost bulletproof and very very simple to fix .

They are however expensive to buy for an older van as they are sought after .

My friend payed £4000 for his van and has saved around three times that cost running it on free fuel .

There is a small cost to filtering and it can be messy but it is pretty simple.

You can use 2500 litres a year without paying tax on it ............for personal use , for business use you have to pay tax .

Still works out cheaper but probably not worth it for a business.

[Dean Taberner]

How much does it cost people to fill their vans now?

You bored Dean? 

Yes mate very,

I decided on friday to take a 4 day sabitical from window cleaning (sat,sun,mon,tues) and wished I hadn't bothered now. Lol.

[AuRavelling79]

£92/4 for the van (was 97 / 98 not long ago) Hyundai 800 (2.5 diesel)

£65 for the car - only a little Suzuki 2.0 diesel. (and the doblo is the same - 1.3 diesel)

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

Surprises me as the OP five years was filling his van for £100. It costs me £105 to fill mine.
That strikes me as 5% increase in cost over a 5 year period. That's pretty good in my books.

[Tom White]

Surprises me as the OP five years was filling his van for £100. It costs me £105 to fill mine.
That strikes me as 5% increase in cost over a 5 year period. That's pretty good in my books.

We don't know what size fuel tank the OP had in comparison with yours.

[G & M]

Is it possible to buy petrol vans anymore cause if it is it would be well worth buying one and converting to gas.
It is possible to convert diesel but you still have to use diesel with the gas and the savings are about 15% according to a guy (in the conversion trade) I spoke to a while back, not really worth it when you include the conversion costs

[marc]

What's ya problem if ya put £95 in lst week just put £95 in this week :-) Lol Marc

[PoleKing]

Is it possible to buy petrol vans anymore cause if it is it would be well worth buying one and converting to gas.
It is possible to convert diesel but you still have to use diesel with the gas and the savings are about 15% according to a guy (in the conversion trade) I spoke to a while back, not really worth it when you include the conversion costs

Yeah, Mercedes do a petrol Vito.
3.2 though so you may not save much...
I bet if most of us worked out the % we spend extra on fuel compared to the % more £ we're making it'd be negligible.
We're all making more now than 5 years ago.
Unless through choice we've decided to make less.