New Tesco Petrol Pumps

Norman_Castle

I've been paying by card for years but only recently realised how pointless it is getting an exact amount.

forgotmyname

You lot must live in poor areas, They put £7.02p in here. I doubt it got him far with a 2.5 litre petrol BMW,
Especially with the high revs & wheel spinning out of the forecourt.

I bet the guy filling his boot with cans of petrol the morning of the budget was happy when it dropped 1p.

Silly...

vikingaero

oldagetraveller wrote: »

Just the job if you key in £40 worth and there turns out to be ullage for £38.50 worth.:p

It works with the Pay in Kiosk or Pay at Card. So if you select £40 and only pump in below that then when it comes to pay you just pay for whatever fuel you've taken.

thescouselander

Not much use to me - I just keep filling until the tank is full.

zappahey

david39 wrote: »

Highly dangerous to jam the nozzle open with your filler cap

Hardly. In most civilised countries, the little locking clip still functions.

Can you provide a reference to some instances of people being drenched in petrol by this practice?

asbokid

davidjwest wrote: »

These deceased sea creatures are getting expensive.

Much of the world doesn't believe in the dino-poop legend of the origins of oil.

In the modern theory of the abiotic origins of oil, crude oil is created deep in the mantle of the earth itself, where there are essentially limitless renewable reserves.

However, only occasionally does the oil percolate up to shallow enough depths that can be reached by today's drilling methods. Hence the original misunderstandings of the origins of oil.

Today, those seeking to persuade us of the fossil fool fairytale are serving the Big Oil agenda of promoting the scarcity of the "black gold" to artificially boost its value and price.

http://www.gasresources.net/Introduction.htm
http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/peakoil1.html

photome

david39 wrote: »

Pumps that had pre-programmed fills were around in the 1960's. The idea just never got transcribed into the digital age for some reason.

Highly dangerous to jam the nozzle open with your filler cap - if the auto-cutout fails to work, you spray petrol everywhere - and try pulling the cap out of the trigger guard while you're being drenched in petrol. That's why the facility is not allowed here.

If the forecourt operator saw you do that he would kill the feed to the pump immediately. Hope you don't do it while you're still smoking.

Everyone prepays in the USA and everyone uses the clip to keep the trigger open, so why isnt it allowed here again? I have never seen ant problems with it in the US and cant remember having problems with them here in the past

david39

Can you provide a reference to some instances of people being drenched in petrol by this practice

No, but I have 40 years experience in the oil industry connected with petrol forecourts and had "splashbacks" happen to me - luckily I was not foolish enough to have the trigger jammed on at the time.

The nozzle contains a small pipe that constantly sucks air from the end because it’s connected to a vacuum at the other end of the hose.

When the tube starts to suck petrol instead of air the change in pressure is detected by a valve which then cuts off the supply of petrol.
It only needs the valve to stick or a blockage in the detector pipe to occur for the auto cutoff mechanism to cease to function.

Latch-on nozzles (as they are called) were quite legal as late as the 1970's but were banned because of exactly those dangers.

You are potentially risking your life, and that of others around you, on the reliability of that mechanism and I can assure you that, albeit seldomly, it does not always work - that is why the practice is banned in this country - it's not because we are uncivilised.

Outpost

Do people really find it that much of a hardship to keep the trigger squeezed for a couple of minutes when filling their cars then?

vikingaero

Outpost wrote: »

Do people really find it that much of a hardship to keep the trigger squeezed for a couple of minutes when filling their cars then?

I agree. It's different when filling HGV's and using the latch/hi-delivery button.