How to get £5 free petrol when filling up your car at fuel stations including Tesco and Shell
DRIVERS can score a fiver’s worth of fuel for free with a simple and easy shopping hack.
Motorists just need to fill up their car with at least £10 worth of petrol and can then get £5 back in cashback through Topcashback.
The deal is live from 10am tomorrow (June 21) and runs for just over a month until July 24.
However, the deal is only available to new members of Topcashback, so if you are already a member, you won’t be able to claim with your existing account.
You need to enter your email address and create a password to sign up – it should only take a couple of minutes.
The free fuel could is a helping hand to drivers who are being squeezed at the pumps.
The average petrol prices stands 145.46p a litre up from 144.95p a litre on May 25, according to RAC’s fuel data.
Diesel prices are at 150.59p a litre.
To get the money off, you’ll need to go and spend £10 or more on fuel at a participating petrol station and take a picture of your receipt.
The receipt needs to clearly shows the date, the name of the fuel station, the receipt number, and the name of the item you’ve purchased.
Then sign up to TopCashback through this special link and upload a picture of the receipt.
Only receipts from June 21 to July 24 will be eligible for the deal, and you’ll need to upload the picture before midnight on June 4.
This deal is available at any fuel stations from Tesco to Shell.
Next, login to TopCashback and upload a photo of your receipt.
You can’t get the deal through the Topchasback app if you have it, you need to go through the desktop or mobile site.
You can also only redeem the offer once. The deal could be withdrawn early if the limit is reached, so it’s better to act sooner than later if you want to use the offer.
The £5 cashback should arrive in your TopCashback account within 14 days, where you can choose to have it paid out straight to your bank account.
HOW TO SAVE ON FUEL
Getting the lowest possible is the easiest way to cut your fuel costs. Not all forecourts charge the same, however, you can search for your cheapest local pumps using petrolprices.com.
Search by postcode to find the cheapest in your area.
Loyalty schemes is another way of making filling up pay.
Nectar members can can shave up to 5p a litre off the cost of petrol.
And drivers with a BPme rewards card get one point for every £1 they spend in-store or on a litre of regular fuel at a BP garage.
You’ll get two points for every litre of the more expensive Ultimate fuel – and get £1 off fuel for every 200 points.
Texaco members can save 1p per litre of fuel with its Star Rewards scheme.
Keeping an eye on local social media groups is one way to track down bargain fuel prices too.
Ways to cut down on your fuel costs
HERE are some tips on how you can slash the cost of fuel.
- Make your car more fuel-efficient. You can do this by keeping your tyres inflated, taking the roof rack off, emptying your car of clutter and turning off your air con when driving at lower speeds.
- Find the cheapest fuel prices. PetrolPrices.com and Confused.com allows you to search prices of UK petrol stations. All you need to do is enter in your postcode and tell it how far you want to travel (up to 20 miles).
- Drive more efficiently. Some ways to do this, include:
- Accelerate gradually without over-revving
- Always drive on the highest possible gear
- If you can, allow your car to slow down naturally as your brake is a money burner
- Re-starting your car is expensive, if you can keep moving