Tesco fiddling petrol calculations?

KierNet

c53204 wrote: »

Stopped using Tescos. My car holds (manufactures figure) 45 ltrs. I filled up with the fuel gauge showing 1/4 tank left. I usually hold the lever until the pump 'clicks off' - which it did.

Got to till and was asked for £72.53, which equated to just over 57 ltrs! After explaining to a Manager and showing him my car handbook, he told me I had to phone Tescos Customer Services. A few days later, they called me back and said the pump could not be faulty as it had been 'calibrated' the day before I filled up - coincidence?

I was told to write in, complain and include copy of receipt and vehicle handbook. Wrote and waiting in hope.

Sounds like you paid for the wrong pump to me! I've managed to get around 55 litres in my tank which is meant to be 50, never heard of it that high before!

On the original tread, I've never known Tescos not to give a receipt, far as I knew it was a legal requirement to give one?

Pay @ Pump receipts are a pain in the !!!!! Hate them >.<

Print_Screen

Ahh 2005 heady, merry times, when I were a lad....:p

I had to laugh when I read this quote:

CrazyChemist wrote: »

...equivalent to 1p a litre now that we're almost at £1 a litre.

We wish!

The OP themselves last posted in 2009, they were studying biomedicine, they've probably long since graduated and earning so much money to not be bothered by a few pence per litre overcharging.

Or like many graduates currently, are on the dole due to lack of jobs:eek:

Flyboy152

This has been a bete noir of mine for many many years. I am fed up with having to keep on asking for a receipt from petrol stations. Is there special training that the petrol retailers ascribe to, which prevents them giving receipts?