MPG Dilemma

[angie4m]

Right guys, I've decided that I will go and see my best mate and his wife cause i've been promising for about a year and never really bothered to go so I've set the date, 25 April and now I face a decision. Do I fly or do I drive?

I can get a return flight from Edinburgh to Luton for £53 which is not bad, but the same journey in the CTR is probably going to be about £70? And thats if i'm really good oh and 1 way!

I know that the flight is the cheaper option but is it really the best. First of all at that point my car will be 6 months old (how time flys) and it will have done probably 2200 miles so I was thinking that a run like that would be really good for it as it doesn't tend to go to far.

I know that the downside to the drive is the fact that it will cost a small fortune in fuel, but then I made it from the outskirts of Edinburgh to Swindon in a Cooper S on a 50l tank of fuel so I can be optimistic. Downsides to flying is I had to fly to Stansted not too long ago and I hated the wait at the airport, the delay to the flight, putting the person out at the other side who was waiting for me due to the delay.....the airport security on the way back and that fact that I am totally restricted for the whole weekend.

I really think I should drive cause then I can go to other places cause i'm off the whole week and take my time getting back home. I'm estimating that i'm probably going to spend about £200 - £250 on petrol alone. Am I mad???????

[Dimplyred]

If it were me, I'd fly and not have the worry about leaving my CTR in areas I wasn't too sure of. Regardless of the cost it is a long way to drive when you can relax on a plane safe in the knowledge your car is safe on your drive.

Use the money you save to give your car a good run around those roads in Scotland, you'll have a much better time up there.

[Bob H]

Originally Posted by angie4m

Right guys, I've decided that I will go and see my best mate and his wife cause i've been promising for about a year and never really bothered to go so I've set the date, 25 April and now I face a decision. Do I fly or do I drive?

I can get a return flight from Edinburgh to Luton for £53 which is not bad, but the same journey in the CTR is probably going to be about £70? And thats if i'm really good oh and 1 way!

I know that the flight is the cheaper option but is it really the best. First of all at that point my car will be 6 months old (how time flys) and it will have done probably 2200 miles so I was thinking that a run like that would be really good for it as it doesn't tend to go to far.

I know that the downside to the drive is the fact that it will cost a small fortune in fuel, but then I made it from the outskirts of Edinburgh to Swindon in a Cooper S on a 50l tank of fuel so I can be optimistic. Downsides to flying is I had to fly to Stansted not too long ago and I hated the wait at the airport, the delay to the flight, putting the person out at the other side who was waiting for me due to the delay.....the airport security on the way back and that fact that I am totally restricted for the whole weekend.

I really think I should drive cause then I can go to other places cause i'm off the whole week and take my time getting back home. I'm estimating that i'm probably going to spend about £200 - £250 on petrol alone. Am I mad???????

Depends on finances I guess... For the convenience I would drive, that way you still have some control with what you may want to do at the other end! However, flying would be the short term cheapest way, but the wait and all the hassle that goes with it? I would drive...

Hope that helps...

Cheers,


Bob...

[angie4m]

Originally Posted by Dimplyred

If it were me, I'd fly and not have the worry about leaving my CTR in areas I wasn't too sure of. Regardless of the cost it is a long way to drive when you can relax on a plane safe in the knowledge your car is safe on your drive.

Use the money you save to give your car a good run around those roads in Scotland, you'll have a much better time up there.

Have you seen the roads up here? With all the wet weather rather large pot holes seem to be appering everywhere. My car will probably sit at my mates place for the weekend doing f all anyway but I think i'm just fed up with everyone treating my car as if it should be in bubble wrap. Nobody wants to go anywhere in it (its even been called the weekend car as it only moves then) just incase it gets damaged.

I love my car and if anyone damaged it I would probably want to break some bones in their body, but I got a rather large stone chip on my wing 3 weeks into owning the car and as much as it pee'd me off, I was on my way to the Hospital to comfort my mate who's sisiter had just died and I thought it don't really matter there are worse things that could have happened. But I am thinking that £200 is quite excessive for fuel for a few days

[kenP]

I'd drive, wouldn't even consider flying. I love the flying bit it's just all the hassle before and after the flight, it's just all too stressful.

[angie4m]

Originally Posted by Bob H

Depends on finances I guess... For the convenience I would drive, that way you still have some control with what you may want to do at the other end! However, flying would be the short term cheapest way, but the wait and all the hassle that goes with it? I would drive...

Hope that helps...

Cheers,


Bob...

Bob, I like that answer. You are a man on my wave lenght

[Dimplyred]

Originally Posted by angie4m

Have you seen the roads up here? With all the wet weather rather large pot holes seem to be appering everywhere. My car will probably sit at my mates place for the weekend doing f all anyway but I think i'm just fed up with everyone treating my car as if it should be in bubble wrap. Nobody wants to go anywhere in it (its even been called the weekend car as it only moves then) just incase it gets damaged.

I love my car and if anyone damaged it I would probably want to break some bones in their body, but I got a rather large stone chip on my wing 3 weeks into owning the car and as much as it pee'd me off, I was on my way to the Hospital to comfort my mate who's sisiter had just died and I thought it don't really matter there are worse things that could have happened. But I am thinking that £200 is quite excessive for fuel for a few days

Well as you put it like that!!! Give it a good ragging down to Luton and stuff the cost!!!

Is that what you wanted me to say?

[angie4m]

Originally Posted by Dimplyred

Well as you put it like that!!! Give it a good ragging down to Luton and stuff the cost!!!

Is that what you wanted me to say?

Jings are you wanting me to blow all my bonus on fuel! Remember Dimply I tend to get about 23/24mpg mostly lol!!!

[terry]

Hi Angie,

I guess it comes down to how much you value your time.
Edinburgh to Luton by car is around 6.5 hours driving, so with stops probably 7.5 hours.
I expect that the flight with all the waiting etc is around 5 hours, and at the end of it you will hopefully not be so knackered compared to driving, and it should cost you less.
If time is not a problem, you can have a leisurely drive, perhaps an overnight stop at a travelodge for £29 a night, and a bit of sightseeing around half way (say Durham, 'cos that is what I did going up to Scotland last year), and you get to drive your car on a long journey with a chance to stretch it's legs and see what MPG you can get, and you have your car to do whatever you want to without being tied to friends or public transport.
And there are bound to be many Civics to be seen and waved at on the journey....and you never know, you may see a Civinfo sticker (not that I have ever seen one apart from on my car)!
And having spent a fortune on fuel, think of the good use the tax you've paid will be used for! (maybe not...it may bring on road rage!).
So my vote is to drive.

Terry

[kenP]

Stuff the cost, but then again I just love driving.

[Dimplyred]

Originally Posted by angie4m

Jings are you wanting me to blow all my bonus on fuel! Remember Dimply I tend to get about 23/24mpg mostly lol!!!

It's only money!!! AND I think you have already made your mind up to drive it down.

[angie4m]

Only other thing bothereing me is the amount of stone chips I will pick up on a journey like that......This is where I wish I had silver!

[Topcat]

Fly !!

[kenP]

You could always wrap the front in bubble wrap lol.

[Dimplyred]

Originally Posted by angie4m

Only other thing bothereing me is the amount of stone chips I will pick up on a journey like that......This is where I wish I had silver!

Don't forget this statement though,

" think i'm just fed up with everyone treating my car as if it should be in bubble wrap "

[Dimplyred]

Originally Posted by Topcat

Fly !!

Right answer TC.

[Bob H]

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

[Dimplyred]

Originally Posted by Bob H

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

I think that may be the logic that decides it!!!

[angie4m]

Originally Posted by kenP

Stuff the cost, but then again I just love driving.

Yes I love to drive too, which was why flying hadn't even crossed my mind till my mate mentioned it today.

Originally Posted by Dimplyred

It's only money!!! AND I think you have already made your mind up to drive it down.

My Dad mentioned last week it would be a good run for the car but it might be a cheaper to fly. I totally disregared the flying comment as I was already dead cert on driving but then I check the price of a flight today and was astonished how cheap it actually was.

Originally Posted by Topcat

Fly !!

I saw you were in the thread and had already read your mind

Originally Posted by kenP

You could always wrap the front in bubble wrap lol.

Hmmm, now thats not a bad idea

[kenP]

Originally Posted by Dimplyred

Right answer TC.

I don't know about anyone else but I didn't just buy my car to sit in the garage. Give it a blast