does your car spit back when you fill it up?
do you lift the pipe up to get the last drop out?
do you tap the spout on the filler neck to get that last dribble into the tank?
or do you chuck it all over seeing as its a company car and company credit card
be honest mind -----------
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Both our diesel Puntos are desperate to fill, It`s more like projectile vomiting than spitting.
Yes, shake dribble last drop. If it can all be done before my legs give way due to crouching peering in.
Edited by oilrag on 30/04/2009 at 18:33
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First click man myself. Discussed this on here before but I used to carefully ensure that I reached a "round pound" when filling up. Took me years to break the habit. I think it must have stemmed from when I mostly paid by cash or cheque and it seemed easier somehow to have a round figure. Now I always pay with whatever card gets me the best prizes or deal and it occured to me that it doesn't really matter about the pence on the end.
I do admit to being reticent to putting £13 worth in for some primeval reason. Though having said that it's many years since you could fill an emptyish tank for that......
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First click for me too, not worth the hassle of dribbling in half a liter (5 miles?) of fuel that no one in their right mind would use. Anyone admit to regularly using the last half liter in their tank? I assume this thread applies to diesel as well.
Edited by Old Navy on 30/04/2009 at 19:10
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Trouble with the Punto is that first click is one of many when slowly filling up. You have to half pull out the nozzle and watch it going in. Experiments early on just resulted in either a WHHOOF of blowback, or a spurt of derv down the bodywork and tyre.
It would be nice to have the petrol model for a while to develop the technique it seems to need, but with derv... anything to avoid another blowback.
:-)
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Sports racers used to have huge filler caps for a reason. They were refuelled at racing speed by intrepid mechanics from wide-mouthed churns.
Er... no smoking in the pits during the race, chaps...
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First click - no point in spilling diesel over the paintwork or forecourt.
Used to fill the tractors with jerrycans and a funnel about the size of a bucket with a gauze filter.
Funnel needed to be big because the pink agricultural diesel had no additives and would fob (foam) readily.
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Always;
Light on, full tank, first click, handle high, tap tap tap.
Always mentally convert litres to gallons and divide the milage on the trip by approx gallons used, reset trip.
Bought a large bag of M&Ms with todays fillup :o)
Oh 376 miles on 53 litres...........................
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Maltesers for me - filling station offers can be quite good.
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I might give up smoking if it were not for petrol stations. Can't seem to say pump 2 or whatever it was thank you without adding and 20 Marlboro reds please....
:-(
Must give up. 34 years now.......
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Humph,
Not sure which is worse, a Malteser or Marlboro habit.
Small point - is there an ashtray in the Mondeo or Signum?
There isn't one in the CC3.
'Ashtrays' could be added to the 'what you don't see these days' thread.
Edited by ifithelps on 30/04/2009 at 21:19
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There is one in both. I try to avoid smoking in the car these days, well most of the time anyway. Only exceptions are very long overnight runs. The ashtrays are normally occupied by my "Jawbone" earpiece for the dog and bone. Brilliant thing which I bought following a recommendation on here. It's a noise cancelling earpiece and it really works.
Flogging the Siggy BTW. Will keep "Betsy" for a while but on the hunt for an ST155 Mondeo estate.
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Must give up. 34 years now.......
Not easy is it HB, despite the very manifest advantages of non-enslavement.
At the risk of offending the many here whose bodies are temples, though, I must scowl in the direction of cars coming without ashtrays. Even the jalopies are health wonks these days. Ptui!
Whatever next? Brothels without spittoons? The mind boggles.
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I used to live in rural brazil Lud. Spent five years there. Great spittoons though...
I had a 1974 Ford Landau while I was there. Ran on sugar cane alcohol. It had huge chrome ashtrays and a 3 speed column change auto box.
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I have discarded illegal logging, the cocaine trade and hiding from very bad people as reasons for that HB.
Something to do with the leather trade perhaps. Bet the beef was good (as well as the spittoons)... Although I am told the Brazilian fast food places in my area do stodge, not nice barbecue...
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Is this thread a follow up to the "MOT reminder stickers on your windscreen" thread?
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My VW, (and other VAG cars - not sure which ones or if just diesels) have a black plastic vent button inside the filler neck. If you hook it with the pump nozzle and pull it out it makes a his sound and diesel in the filler neck disappears down into the tank. I just hold this vent out at the end and round off to the nearest litre so I get maximum Shell points.
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After once pulling up against a 'truck pump' at a local Shell garage for diesel, and removing the dispenser from the pump, I was kind of committed to trying to use it. Anyway, at that point, I wanted to see if the filler nozzle fitted into the car tank. Although it didn't quite, it did form a reasonable seal when placed on top of the "filler hole" on the car.
Now, when I visit a garage to fill up, and ONLY when all other pumps are being used, I often fill my diesel car using these 'truck pumps'. Although it doesn't fit down the filler hole perfectly, it cuts out correctly when the tank is full.
The other benefit is that it fills approx 55 litres in about 30-40 seconds, which is WAY faster than normal car pumps. Has anybody else found this to be the case, or am I the only one ho has tried it?
(And before I get all the Health and Safety experts on my back, I know it may not be a recommended use of the pump, but no cashier has ever told me not to use it! - and incidentally, there is very little/no splashback)
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320d have you considered the backlog of trucks that you can cause by using a truck pump,theres a garage i use and its really annoying if a car is taking up this pump and then the driver goes on to clean his shoes and then go and buy a newspaper and ginsters pie while searching for his necter card and some fluff from his left pocket
just a thought :-)
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Fair point, and well made.
Fortunately I've never had a truck stop up behind me when I've done it - but I'll make sure I bear that in mind...
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A few years ago I used to fill up my sadly departed Peugeot 505D at a Shell garage using their "truck pump" when it was empty - as you say, a tight fit in the filler, but it did fill very quickly.
These days I have a petrol Mk2B Punto, and while it's not the nicest thing to fill, it does fill up (with a bit of effort on the last fraction of a £) without getting my boots splashed.
It must be said though, I don't know if the filling was one of the many details which were changed/improved on the last revision of the Mk2 Punto (large headlights, etc).
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does your car spit back when you fill it up?
No - stuff nozzle hard down hole anhd Fill to third click
do you lift the pipe up to get the last drop out?
No
do you tap the spout on the filler neck to get that last dribble into the tank?
Only to knock of the drips off so they dont go on my trousers - Diesel stinks
or do you chuck it all over seeing as its a company car and company credit card
No
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I used to use my employer's Metro a few years ago and learnt to stand well to one side when filling it as it would always spit back half a cupful before the pump cut out.
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"don't know if the filling was one of the many details which were changed/improved on the last revision of the Mk2 Punto (large headlights, etc)"
No, the same unfortunately - we have both.
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