Multan-Sukkur M5 Motorway Update?

[khurem]

How significant was the fog issue? Did you stay overnight somewhere or completed both ways in a single day?

[pwuser154930119619]

Bro, If you owns a 660;
fill up at sukkur before entering m5; it will go till Multan (400km easily); take exit to multan fill in again & then enter to m4 again.

same applies at return (as a pre-cautions there are several interchange like Rahim yar khan / zahir pir) petrol pumps are in front of every interchange, you exits
make sure to maintain a speed of 90-110 to get 20 avg, above that Alto will give 17-18

[pwuser154930119619]

i recently travel khi - lhr; fog starts at 5.30pm; so we stayed at multan
on return we started our journy from faisalabad at 1.00pm; so nog fog issue; as you exits punjab before 5.00pm
we reach return to khi at 4.00am

[afarooqi]

Just made a lhr-khi-lhr trip.
Left 11 AM from Lahore, reached multan 2pm, refilled fuel and tummy, back to m5, reached sukkur at 7 pm with slow drive. after that n5, till khi, reached khi at 3 AM night. Over all experience was good on M5, service area only operational for namaz and washrooms.
From Khi, left 530 am monring, reached M5 at 2:30 PM, after that multiple sessions of heavy fog near multan, jaranwala, and shiekupura. Reached Lahore at 12:30 AM night.

Tried to remain within limits, and a break of 10-15 minutes after every 100 kms, bcuz i was only driver.

Avg travel time khi-lhr and lhr-khi is 14-15 hours.
Earlier when i used n5 for complete route, it consumes 20-22 hours of drive.

I hope after Hyderabad-multan motorway, this travel time should reduce to 12-13 hours.

Car used was Corolla Altis 1.6. Fuel consumed approx 2.5 tanks.

[gfkhan]

Best place to refuel car tank is uch shareef petrol pump, from both sides ,its only 100 meters away from toll plaza ,one has to leave uch shareef fill tank and then re enter on M5 without lossing time, dont fill tank full, fill only of 1500 rupees thats more than enough to reach any where after m5

[pwuser152887275513]

there is shamz tabrez interchange up down at M5 and M4 you can fuel up easily for both up and down travelling on motorways i.e. M3, M4 and M5

[Fayaz02]

take exit to multan fill in again & then enter to m4 again.

Do they re-charge the toll tax in this case ?

[pwuser154930119619]

At every exit you have to pay, but it's like same amount,

[feika]

The toll is calculated on per kilometer basis, so you don't pay extra, may be a few rupees here and there but that's negligible.

[SmokinGun]

2.5 tanks each side?

[afarooqi]

yes

[SmokinGun]

Fuel available? on M5? where exactly?

[arsal396]

any update?

[sehban]

It would be appreciated if somone who has recently travelled on M5 could let me know whether fuel pumps are operational on Sukkur Multan Motorway and if operational then at how many locations..

[chinyoti]

last pump is bedal petrol pump at sukkher/Rohri interchange

After that you get fuel on abdul hakeem motorway just before you connect to lahore Islamabad motorway. That is aprox 550-560 kilometers.

So if your car can do 600 km in a tank its okay. Else get off at multan and refuel. And then get back on the motorway.

M5 is aproxx 380 kms.

[chall3ng3r]

So if your car can do 600 km in a tank its okay. Else get off at multan and refuel. And then get back on the motorway.

No need for this. There are two petrol pumps in both directions in this newly built M5 patch, they are temporary kind, whith actual pumps under construction beside them in rest area.

I traveled recently from Karachi to ISB on my Pajero Mini and was told same that fuel will not be there. But the temporary pumps started just few days before my trip, so was kind of lucky. But now there's no need to get off from M5.

[chinyoti]

But now there's no need to get off from M5.

Not M5, But after M5. i travelled 2 times, Last in June 2020, Maybe i missed thoose temporary pumps but this time we stopped at almost every stop on M5

[chall3ng3r]

Not M5, But after M5. i travelled 2 times, Last in June 2020, Maybe i missed thoose temporary pumps but this time we stopped at almost every stop on M5

You might have missed or they were not setup at the time. I traveled on 21 July, and was told that those pumps were setup just 3 or 4 days ago by BE. But they are on both sides of road.

I have the GPS data still in my Garmin, which I will copy to PC and share exactly where those pumps are setup.

[chinyoti]

That would be excellent, Becasue when travelled in April i had a Corolla Altis it was managaing 650 km on a single tank. That was wonderfully doable. In july we had a fortuner it was doing roughly about 450-500

So we were in slight trouble, we had to get of at khanewal just to know pumps providing 500/500 ka petrol

[chall3ng3r]

My Pajero Mini does 280KM per tank, so we were quite concerned about the fuel situation, even at one pump we filled up a 10L can before joining M5, but as soon as we discovered the temporary pump, we refilled car from it and on next stop emptied 10L can and didn't even needed 2nd full tank to reach Multan.