Fuel prices with Live Service

Larok · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 08, 2006 Posts: 79

Hello everyone,

I have the 940 with live services and have recently needed to start looking for the best diesel prices. I find that the prices have not refreshed even though I have updated them via home every few days over the last month. The diesel prices are still showing around the £1.00 mark even though the majority of these stations are selling at 1.04

Does anyone else still have the 'old' prices in their machine, I was thinking perhaps mine is just not refreshing the information. Or maybe that's just the best it does??

PaulB2005 · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject:

Prices can be up to 5 days old, so I'd never really use it as a reliable source of info, just a guide as to which place is probably the cheapest....

Larok · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 08, 2006 Posts: 79

Thanks for your answer Paul, prices are up to 5 days old. I'm finding that prices showing are much older than that and they never update when I update via home.

For example if I look for petrol by distance there are some shell garages showing 0.96 which is way more than 5 days old.

gatorguy6996 · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject:

I'm surprised that the Live services would have old fuel prices. It's pretty easy to get current prices by simply using one of the CC reporting services for the data. MSNDirect's fuel prices in the US are available (in many cases) based on the prices paid today. It's even noted whether the price shown if from today, yesterday, etc.
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:49 pm Post subject:

Are you offered updates at all via Home? Or are you offered them but it seems to have no effect?

To be honest i've not watched the prices but i've just updated so i'll make a note of the current prices here and see what they are at the end of the week...

Super Unleaded

0.40M 0.99 BP
0.55M 1.00 TOTAL
0.75M 0.98 BP
1.10M 0.99 BP
1.10M 0.98 TOTAL
1.10M 0.97 TOTAL

I'll check these later this week...

gatorguy6996 - Sadly it's not the same in the UK (or maybe even Europe) as it clearly states "Prices may be up to 5 days old" at the bottom of the screen i'm looking at now.

Larok · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 08, 2006 Posts: 79

I am offered the fuel price updates but they seem to have no effect.

Diesel Prices near me;

2.8m 0.98 BP
1.4m 0.99 Tesco
2.6m 0.99 Shell
2.9m 0.99 Shell

shell have been selling at 1.03 or 1.04 for weeks!

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:12 pm Post subject:

My diesel prices are showing as 0.99 "cheapest nearby"
and the 5 nearest to home are showing as 1.00, 1.00, 1.02, 1.00, 0.99, and 1.01

Petrol Prices.com shows them as
101.9p, 102.9p, 102.9p, 102.9p, 102.9p

One way to force the prices to refresh is to select a different fuel type. The numbers downloaded really should be different. Then re-select your original fuel type and see what the numbers come out as now.

PaulB2005 · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:17 pm Post subject:

I've had 2 downloads tonight off TT Home and changing fuel type hasn't made a difference. Maybe next week...

emjaiuk · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:13 am Post subject:

Just to add my experiences, I too find that TT fuel prices sre completly out of date. If petrolprices.com can get consistantly very close why can't TT? It's got to the stage that to me it's nor worth using. yet another reason for not renewing live.
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robbooth · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 162

Yep, agree with all the above - prices are weeks out of date even though it updates every time I connect with Home - I tend to use it as PaulB says, as a guide to where the cheapest will probably be.

Larok · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 08, 2006 Posts: 79

Anyone getting new petrol prices at all. I'v been in touch with tomtom who asked me to delete the home download file contents and re sync. To no avail. Same local prices as on my last post.

falkirk81 · Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:41 am Post subject:

Just checked my fuel prices, and at my local tesco (where I work) it has been 94.9p for unleaded for quite a few days now. More than the 5 days TT claims the data MAY be.

Looking on the fuel prices service now, it is claiming it is 89.9p at this garage. Hmm, somethings not right here!
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:33 am Post subject:

Well mine are still the same as the prices i posted above....

Iaindk · Lifetime Member Joined: May 11, 2004 Posts: 15

Same Problem here, all showing the price as was before the recent tax rise.

Matt865 · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 30, 2006 Posts: 92

The 2p tax rise doesn't come into effect until September.

Prices around here are also out, although I don't pay close enough attention to them to tell if they're out by more than 5 days.

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