New Tesco Petrol Pumps

James_H_2

jackieb wrote: »

I don't understand why I still try to get to the nearest £ when I have a 5p off a litre voucher.

Anyway a lot of garages have a penny pot, so if you go over by a penny or 2 and you don't have change you can take one. Never seen on in a Tesco forecourt though.

Hah, I nearly did that this morning at Tesco before remembering I had a 5p voucher, so I put 58.00 litres in!

To be honest, I don't get why it's such a massive inconvenience for most people, when I used to fill up my QX with a 90 litre tank, even that would only take about 5 mins tops!

KierNet

We've been talking about getting our pumps upgraded for years, however they still haven't done it! Another Tescos a few miles away have just got them added, seems a great idea! Hopefully we'll get them soon!

almillar

JackieB - as James H says, if you've got a PER LITRE voucher, you should fill to the nearest litre, not the nearest pound, for the best moneysaving.

johncas1

Strider590 wrote: »

And before ya'll moan about the jamming of the handle, if you look at most pumps the handle has a metal loop on it, this is used in other countries to lock the handle open, but in the UK we disable it. The only pumps where this device isn't removed is the Diesel pumps for trucks.

The metal loop in the pump is so the garage assistant can put a bar through it and a padlock on the end of the bar to lock off the pumps when not is use this stops the nozel being taken out of the pump as 24hr filling stations like the ones I work at only have 4 pumps open at night we lock off the others so they cant be used and if I see anyone jamming the handle they will be banned from the garage and I will shut off all the pumps and it is very dangerous as like others said if the auto cut off fails and I have seen it happen this can cause a big spillage and end up having to call fire brigade and close garage don't do it

johncas1

zappahey wrote: »

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?

Yes I sometimes work in a Tesco PFS as overtime and we have had a pump cutoff fail if was a fountain of petrol, petrol was going every ware it was like a swimming pool we had to close the fourcourt and get the fire brigade to clean it up better safe than sorry

I have been there when someone had dropped a cigarette end out if his car window on to the fourcourt floor still lit people on there phones

photome

johncas1 wrote: »

Yes I sometimes work in a Tesco PFS as overtime and we have had a pump cutoff fail if was a fountain of petrol, petrol was going every ware it was like a swimming pool we had to close the fourcourt and get the fire brigade to clean it up better safe than sorry

I have been there when someone had dropped a cigarette end out if his car window on to the fourcourt floor still lit people on there phones

What do you think would happen to the spilt fuel just because someone dropped a fag end and was using a mobile

prowla

Strider590 wrote: »

Me? Wait for the £3 a day driver to do their weekly shop before paying for their 2 litres of petrol, I drive up to the pump, I open the fuel cap, insert the nossle, jam fuel cap into the handle, stand back and wait for the click, ...

In the US they also have petrol pumps that click on, so that you can let go of them.

Weird_Nev

Sorry, I can't let this lie:

asbokid wrote: »

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

Utter BUNK!

Yet again conspiracy theorists dredging up out of date philosphies (in this case 18th Century ones!)
Oil comes from Organic matter decomposed anaerobically over great periods of time from pressure and high temperatures when buried in the earths crust. It is not produced by magic in the earths core or mantle, conditions there are far too hot and high pressure. That's where diamonds come from, all the impurities and volatiles are driven off of carbon under such conditions.

wba31

James_H wrote: »

Hah, I nearly did that this morning at Tesco before remembering I had a 5p voucher, so I put 58.00 litres in!

To be honest, I don't get why it's such a massive inconvenience for most people, when I used to fill up my QX with a 90 litre tank, even that would only take about 5 mins tops!

would love a 90 litre tank, some weeks I fill up my little 50 litre tank twice, a 90 litre tank and less hassle having to visit petrol stations would be bliss!!!