Shell petrol pumps

Strider590

I laugh at fools who put like £5 of petrol in every couple of days...... I fill to the max everytime I refuel (around £70), I only have to visit the pumps once a month and I don't risk running out.
Do you even realise the damage that can be done by simply running out of fuel?

Inactive

Strider590 wrote: »

I laugh at fools who put like £5 of petrol in every couple of days...... I fill to the max everytime I refuel (around £70), I only have to visit the pumps once a month and I don't risk running out.

Same here, I would make it an offence to run out of fuel if I had my way, after all, there is no excuse, when did you last hear of a pilot running an aircraft out of fuel.;)

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Who says I refuel every couple of days just because I don't fill to the brim? £20 lasts me nearly 2 weeks if I'm not really going any where apart from work and back which is locally. I still always refuel way before the warning light comes on too.

Like someone else said, no point in lugging the extra weight in fuel around. I have brimmed plenty of times in the past but I don't bother now.

dannymccann

And who still pays by cash for this stuff, just pay at the pump with your card and get out my way, causing extra queues wasting my fuel making me sit there 5 more minutes with my engine on while I wait for you to get your weeks shop from the bloody convenience store lumbered on the forecourt. And I understand its a MoneySaving board, but really, I dont think 1 or 2p every 2 weeks is going to hurt anymore but the oldest most miserly Auditor

darich

dannymccann wrote: »

wasting my fuel making me sit there 5 more minutes with my engine on while I wait for you

Where do you buy your fuel where you're allowed to leave your engine running?

And you do know it's an offence to leave your engine running if your vehicle is unattended?

dannymccann

While Im sitting in it at the pump waiting for said idiots doing their shopping and paying for their fuel the old fashioned way, possibly still even by cheque now I come to think of it :rotfl:

I dont leave it running unattended! Some little scrote would be in it and off like a shot, I dont really want to find my motor half a mile up the road wrapped round a post for no good reason

gardner1

dannymccann wrote: »

And who still pays by cash for this stuff, just pay at the pump with your card and get out my way, causing extra queues wasting my fuel making me sit there 5 more minutes with my engine on while I wait for you to get your weeks shop from the bloody convenience store lumbered on the forecourt. And I understand its a MoneySaving board, but really, I dont think 1 or 2p every 2 weeks is going to hurt anymore but the oldest most miserly Auditor

also please realise you can fill up from both sides and this is mainly aimed at women but for gods sake have your payment ready instead of rummaging about in handbag for for 5 mins

kevin0410

mysterons wrote: »

What's being described isn't any kind of petrol company conspiracy but simply mechanical wear on the pump. Although displays are electronic these days the innards of the pump are still mechanical driven by an electric motor.
99% of customer fills are to the round pound and constantly stopping the pump on this point causes a 'wear ring' to develop in the chamber. This requires a little more effort to pump past so the pump jumps to the next penny.
People suggesting 'just fill the tank' arent taking into account the added cost of needlessly lugging the weight of all that fuel about.

surely the pump is running constantly and the flow of fuel is controlled by the nozzle acting as a valve, not by the pump starting and stopping.

kevin0410

Inactive wrote: »

when did you last hear of a pilot running an aircraft out of fuel?;)

it was on Air Crash Investigation the other day;)

Norman_Castle

also please realise you can fill up from both sides

Not at my local shell garage.I pulled up,tried pump,It did"nt reach,so I left.Drove past an hour later saw someone else doing the same.Shell pumps are also marked poorly.Quite often the second pump in the line is marked diesel.But when you stop next to it it only sells "premium" diesel at an extra 5p per litre.I do think this is a cynical ploy by shell.They know drivers will either not notice or fill up regardless.Unless I can reverse to another pump I will buy fuel elsewhere.I now avoid shell garages because of this.