Anybody else notice this at the gas stations???

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BLUE_KAWI

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I’ve been noticing something suspicious at the gas pumps.

When I get around half tank in my car, it usually takes around 24-25 litres to fill it back up. On Saturdays ONLY I notice its takes 30 litres instead of the normal 25 litres to fill it from half tank.
I verified this by going on any week day and it takes 25 litres to fill from half tank.

Have you guys been seeing this? I think the gas companies are rigging the pumps.
 
What about the fact that when you press on the gas hinge the gas takes a while to go on full thrust but the money increments increase at the same speed from the start.
 
Why do you always fuel up at half a tank? Paranoid of running out of gas?
 
That I have noticed for years. But this one I just noticed is new to me. Pay attention of how much you putting in on Saturday's. I have been filling up in Ajax area.


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What about the fact that when you press on the gas hinge the gas takes a while to go on full thrust but the money increments increase at the same speed from the start.
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No, not Paranoid. My car gets between 8-10 litres per 100 Kilometers. I document how much my cars is using. On occasion I fill up on Saturdays and then noticed it required 2-4 litres more fuel to fill it up.

nikiter said:
Why do you always fuel up at half a tank? Paranoid of running out of gas?
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Gasoline is very susceptible to temperature and its volume changes significantly due to it.

If you were so observant, the pump also states that the pump has been calibrated at 15C.

Laymans terms, your tank can hold more cold fuel by volume than warm fuel by volume.

In fact, its such a large difference that as Aircraft Mechs overseeing fueling of Jets we had to call in to fuelers for todays Specific Gravity to calculate weight vs amount filled.

Fueller filled by liters, we calculated fuel load by lbs or tons.

EDIT: I now see you're not talking about just this saturday but every saturday. You're just ****ed in the head, thats all. Now that you've outed the oil company conspiracy, watch for black helicopters.
 
Is this at one staion or several, I doubt that if it is a conspiracy that all stations would be in.

Maybe move to sunday fills or another locale? if you are getting 8-10L/100 kms maybe this is the difference. I would be least inclided to trust your guage as a few (2-4) litres only wouldn't likely make a significant difference on the needle position. This is a change of less then 5-10% of your tank volume.

If still in doubt maybe fashion yourself a tinfoil hat :lol:
 
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The only way you can prove this is weigh 25L from different days. Don't put it in your car, get separate container. See if there is a weight difference. This should be done at the same temperature
 
^^^ 25L of gas will weigh the same regardless of temp.

OP - that's not possible. My family owns a gas station and I prob know all the tricks there is, and what your describing is not one of them :)
 
BLUE_KAWI said:
No, not Paranoid. My car gets between 8-10 litres per 100 Kilometers. I document how much my cars is using. On occasion I fill up on Saturdays and then noticed it required 2-4 litres more fuel to fill it up.
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And how does half a tank situation help your documentation exactly ? Why not a full tank ?
 
Red_Liner740 said:
Gasoline is very susceptible to temperature and its volume changes significantly due to it.

If you were so observant, the pump also states that the pump has been calibrated at 15C.

Laymans terms, your tank can hold more cold fuel by volume than warm fuel by volume.

In fact, its such a large difference that as Aircraft Mechs overseeing fueling of Jets we had to call in to fuelers for todays Specific Gravity to calculate weight vs amount filled.

Fueller filled by liters, we calculated fuel load by lbs or tons.

EDIT: I now see you're not talking about just this saturday but every saturday. You're just ****ed in the head, thats all. Now that you've outed the oil company conspiracy, watch for black helicopters.
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:lmao:
 
Red_Liner740 said:
Gasoline is very susceptible to temperature and its volume changes significantly due to it.

If you were so observant, the pump also states that the pump has been calibrated at 15C.
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Related Question is it law or recommendation for the recalibration I have noticed a few past the retest date by a year
 
I'm reserving judgement till I see the youtube video.
 
Here's a crazy idea, maybe make note of the actual number of kilometers used. A gas gauge isn't exactly a precision instrument. "1/2 tank", ****.
 
mikbusa said:
Here's a crazy idea, maybe make note of the actual number of kilometers used. A gas gauge isn't exactly a precision instrument. "1/2 tank", ****.
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Whoa! You don't trust gas gauges? If we don't trust things, the terrorists win. Do you want the terrorists to win? Are you against freedom?

Blue Kawi's non-scientific, baseless conspiracy theory of free gas saturday's is on to something. something big. We have ourselves another Snowden over here. Think of all the petro points, for the love of all that's chrome, think of the petro points!!!
 
I'm not sure if temperature compensation for gasoline is the same as natural gas, but I manually set our temperature compensation on our NGV stations,. The colder it gets, the less fill the vehicle's get. The reason for it is, if a vehicle is filled at a cold temperature, then is parked inside where the temperature could be 15 degrees warmer, the pressure will increase in the cylinder and risk blowing the relief, filling the place with natural gas. Also if it's filled in the morning, and the temperature increases during the day, the pressure in the cylinder will increase.
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