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Got some petrol at 99.9p/l yesterday, and pumps clicking off straight away?
Got some petrol from Asda Wallmart Supercentre Pudsey (Leeds) for 99.9p/l :money: Maybe this means a price drop across the country is about to happen?
Unfortunately I got a pump that kept clicking off as soon as I started filling, and had to use the holding it gently and letting petrol trickle in approach. Also tried altering the position of the gun. Is there likely to be something wrong with my car's filler nozzle or am I just unlucky enough to come across faulty pumps that click off straight away? It has happened to me on 3 or 4 separate pumps at different stations in the past and seriously annoys me.
Unfortunately I got a pump that kept clicking off as soon as I started filling, and had to use the holding it gently and letting petrol trickle in approach. Also tried altering the position of the gun. Is there likely to be something wrong with my car's filler nozzle or am I just unlucky enough to come across faulty pumps that click off straight away? It has happened to me on 3 or 4 separate pumps at different stations in the past and seriously annoys me.
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Possibly frothing, try pulling the nozzle out a bit, without spilling.0
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Tesco in the south east dropped from 104.9 to 101.9 last week, so the price has dropped slightly.
However, I've heard that if we all buy fuel at 2pm on the 2nd Tuesday of the month from only one of those really old petrol stations where the man comes out to the car with a bumbag and fills it up for you, the price of petrol will tumble
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Hopefully a price drop is happening, oil $$ is on the way down.
BTW what was fuel prices in the last week or 2 in your area anewman?
I think it is the pumps oversensitive, try turning the pump handle/nozzle assemmbly
upside down, it works for me on some cars.0 -
ASDA, Cribbs Causeway, Bristol: down from 101.9p to 100.9p (99.9p to 98.9p with their credit card).The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in my life.0
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ooo, I was near there lastnight at the Leeds-Bradford Odeon as well.
The others around the area going back to where I live in Adel were all showing 101.9 though.I beep for Robins - Beep Beep
& Choo Choo for trains!!0 -
newman - I'm also local to that Asda and they have just had new pumps installed. If the pumps worked before complain to Asda.0
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It's possible that there's an air/petrol bubble in the overflow pipe (the smaller hole you can see here):Unfortunately I got a pump that kept clicking off as soon as I started filling, and had to use the holding it gently and letting petrol trickle in approach. Also tried altering the position of the gun. Is there likely to be something wrong with my car's filler nozzle or am I just unlucky enough to come across faulty pumps that click off straight away? It has happened to me on 3 or 4 separate pumps at different stations in the past and seriously annoys me.
If you pull the nozzle out, hold it so the open end is facing you and blow down (in the general direction of) the overflow, this sometimes helps (don't actually come into contact with the nozzle!)Conjugating the verb 'to be":
-o I am humble -o You are attention seeking -o She is Nadine Dorries0 -
Stephen_Leak wrote: »ASDA, Cribbs Causeway, Bristol: down from 101.9p to 100.9p (99.9p to 98.9p with their credit card).
So you get 2p off per litre with the asda credit card? I only ask because I noticed that offer when they introduced asda credit cards a few months ago, but now if you look at the instore credit card promotional leaflets it doesn't mention the 2p off per litre anymore. Does this mean it is no longer available to new customers?0 -
Paul_Herring wrote: »It's possible that there's an air/petrol bubble in the overflow pipe (the smaller hole you can see here):
If you pull the nozzle out, hold it so the open end is facing you and blow down (in the general direction of) the overflow, this sometimes helps (don't actually come into contact with the nozzle!)
Learned something new there, I'd also think then that a fast downwards swing of your arm would help expel any petrol from within the small tube.0 -
Got some petrol from Asda Wallmart Supercentre Pudsey (Leeds) for 99.9p/l :money: Maybe this means a price drop across the country is about to happen?
Unfortunately I got a pump that kept clicking off as soon as I started filling, and had to use the holding it gently and letting petrol trickle in approach. Also tried altering the position of the gun. Is there likely to be something wrong with my car's filler nozzle or am I just unlucky enough to come across faulty pumps that click off straight away? It has happened to me on 3 or 4 separate pumps at different stations in the past and seriously annoys me.
I had this problem when I first got the RX-8. The solution was to push the nozzle firmly up to the filler neck and then squeeze the trigger.0
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