Fuel Pump Calibration!!!!!!

[VincentBikes]

Come Saturday morning the lawn needs some cutting but we are out of petrol. So I run down to one of the local petrol stations with my 5l can to go  get some petrol. Pump attendant proceeds to fill the 5l can and hold behold he actually manages to put 5.7 liter of fuel in a 5l can.

 

That is a 14% error in the petrol stations favour!!!! which means that on a 60l tank you are being crooked by 8.4 lites equiting to about R87 per tank.

 

Whats up with this???? The damn fuel is already so expensive and then this.

 

Does anybody know what the allowed pump errors are and do we have a leg to stand on or are we as the general consumer being screwed again!!!!!!

 

[fandacious]

or... maybe the can holds more than 5 liters?

[Pantani]

Pump Fixing Round 1 

[porky]

Hmmm, not sure its the fuel pump Felty, we have a diesel fill station on site and the oil company checks the pump readings and calibration at least four times a year.

 

Although its very possible the calibration can go out, I think your can is bigger than the stamped reading (5lit).

[VincentBikes]

 

or... maybe the can holds more than 5 liters?

 

Who would sell 5.7 liters of oil for the price of 5?????Poured 5l measured water in and checked out, not calibrated but even at 2% error still not what the pump says!!!

 

[Dirtbreath]

A 5l container is actually more if you fill it to the brim.

[fandacious]

the 5l oil can isnt FULL to the brim when you buy it.

[porky]

I guess you could just call the fuel companies customer care  line and tell them your story, ask them to go check.?

 

It would be quite a serious offence if the owner has tampered with the calibration as the pumps usually always remain the property of the fuel company.

 

If the pump has been damaged, thats differant and the company needs to know to fix it, so they may be quite willing to go take a lookie-see.!

 

[Pantani]

Stop arguing about the can!!! They robbed Felty... Now let's all go over to the filling station and burn it down!!!!

[Kiwi]

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[Red Zone]

There was a story a week or two ago about a guy who had a serious arguement with the fuel companies who managed to get more petrol in his Prius than the fuel capacity, turns out that the Prius has a fuel tank that has some expansion capability. But my point is that the fuel companies do have a pretty strict calibration routine, I doubt that you were ripped. If you do report this (and why not) they will investigate. I would drain you 5 lt container, and fill it with from an accurate source to check the figures.

[Matchstix]

 

I always wondered if something like this was possible. Can you imagine with the amount of feul that leaves a station how we unknowingly can get scammed. And by the time someone figures it out we will already been screwed over. Take little from from eveyone and you score big time.

Even if they do this with half a litre per tank.

 

Matchstix2008-11-24 04:37:51

[Gert Janse v Rensburg]

There was a story a week or two ago about a guy who had a serious arguement with the fuel companies who managed to get more petrol in his Prius than the fuel capacity' date=' turns out that the Prius has a fuel tank that has some expansion capability. But my point is that the fuel companies do have a pretty strict calibration routine, I doubt that you were ripped. If you do report this (and why not) they will investigate. I would drain you 5 lt container, and fill it with from an accurate source to check the figures.[/quote']

 

does a Prius need petrol.......

[TNT1]

 

I would drain you 5 lt container' date=' and fill it with from an accurate source to check the figures.[/quote']

 

take it to that carla_sq dude... he seems pedantic enough to have accurate measuring stuff....

 

[TNT1]

Oh, and doesn't petrol expand/contract with temperature? Wouldn't that cock up your reading as well?

[VincentBikes]

 

Oh' date=' and doesn't petrol expand/contract with temperature? Wouldn't that cock up your reading as well?

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Apparently the fuel that is supplied to depot's from the refinery's etc are all measured with temperature and pressure compensation whilst the pumps at the local station is not. (cost issue?) One of the reasons the tanks are underground to minimise temperature variation......