Petrol stations

[echo beach]

Petrol is so expensive nowadays that 1p represents about half a drop therefore it’s extremely difficult to stop the flow and hence the price exactly where you want it.

 

echo.

[The_DADDY]

Just now, echo beach said:

Petrol is so expensive nowadays that 1p represents about half a drop therefore it’s extremely difficult to stop the flow and hence the price exactly where you want it.

 

echo.

Very true.

In fact recently i tried to stop it bang on a tenner.

Ended up stopping it at £10.11 🙄

So tried stopping it at £20.

But it stopped at £20.09 .

So I thought I'd have a final go and try and stop it at 30.

No surprise i stopped it at £30.05😪

Anyway i finally gave up and paid my £70.02 petrol bill and drove home.

I won't be trying that again. 

[Longcol]

12 minutes ago, echo beach said:

Petrol is so expensive nowadays that 1p represents about half a drop therefore it’s extremely difficult to stop the flow and hence the price exactly where you want it.

 

echo.

 

Precisely,  especially pumps are calibrated in litres which are a sight smaller than gallons when it was far easier to stop the pump at a precise amount.

[Prettytom]

1 minute ago, Longcol said:

 

Precisely,  especially pumps are calibrated in litres which are a sight smaller than gallons when it was far easier to stop the pump at a precise amount.

On most modern pumps, you can press a button and get the pump to dispense exactly 10, or 20, or 30 quids worth of petrol.

 

No need for any fancy work with the pump trigger 

[echo beach]

2 minutes ago, Longcol said:

 

Precisely,  especially pumps are calibrated in litres which are a sight smaller than gallons when it was far easier to stop the pump at a precise amount.

I don’t know anyone who puts fuel in their tank now by volume.

It’s always by money £10, £20, £45 etc.

 

echo.

[Prettytom]

1 minute ago, echo beach said:

I don’t know anyone who puts fuel in their tank now by volume.

It’s always by money £10, £20, £45 etc.

 

echo.

I just fill mine up.

 

I drive until the fuel light comes on. Then I fill the tank to the top.

 

Repeat.

[Longcol]

Just now, Prettytom said:

On most modern pumps, you can press a button and get the pump to dispense exactly 10, or 20, or 30 quids worth of petrol.

 

No need for any fancy work with the pump trigger 

 

Not at the Tesco's in Portsmouth which is the petrol station I use most frequently when visiting the UK. Didn't see it at the big Tesco's on Spital Hill either when I was over last week.

[echo beach]

2 minutes ago, Prettytom said:

On most modern pumps, you can press a button and get the pump to dispense exactly 10, or 20, or 30 quids worth of petrol.

 

No need for any fancy work with the pump trigger 

When driving in Sicily a few years ago the unmanned pumps would only take Euro notes and no change was given which proved difficult when trying to return the hire car with a full tank without being overcharged to an extent.

Perhaps they were operated by the mob.

 

echo.

 

 

On 20/08/2024 at 13:42, Padders said:

Stopped going when it was £10.

Used to love it on my day off, get up, nice day, I'll go to Hillsboro.

Pay at the turnstyle. job were a good un.

It's all to complicated now.

I'm retired now, and I would love to go again, but at £46 to watch 90+ minutes of football, it's not going to happen.

 

[Longcol]

3 minutes ago, echo beach said:

I don’t know anyone who puts fuel in their tank now by volume.

It’s always by money £10, £20, £45 etc.

 

echo.

 

Same here unless driving from home (Dordogne) to the UK, then it's fill it to the top.

[Prettytom]

2 minutes ago, Longcol said:

 

Not at the Tesco's in Portsmouth which is the petrol station I use most frequently when visiting the UK. Didn't see it at the big Tesco's on Spital Hill either when I was over last week.

In fairness, that is only two out of all of the petrol stations in the UK. And both Tesco.

 

There are loads of stations with preset buttons. Keep an eye out.