How do you finish fueling up?

[Silver Ghia]

I give a few light taps to get the drips out of the nozzle only so they dont drop on the paint.
Trouble is, just as I pull out another drip drops straight onto the paint sometimes.

About 5 years ago before fuel vouchers came in, I used to pay cash, and I used to always put in 2 cents more so it had to be rounded down. 2 cents free!!! At the time I worked out I could go about 200 m extra for free per tankfull. Can't do this now with credit cards and vouchers.

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by chief

I shake it and lift up the hose to get the drops out. Pathetic really.

Yeah that's what I do aswell.

[Twisted]

Originally Posted by mattp

I only shake to avoid having the fuel drip on my paint. What's 2 drops of fuel worth?

Same here, I only give it a giggle to make sure nothing drips out and down the side of the car.

[rapidxr6]

I finish up by first stopping the pump with my hand on the flap, the hose over my shoulder so there is no slack and run all the fuel from the hose as well. Only then do you have every dollar you paid for out of the pump. :evilsasmo

I forgot...i'm a careful shaker, i also hate fuel drips, it stains the Rapid paint easily.

[GCFordChic]

I would never have gotten the chance to say this about anything in life had this thread not come up...I shake it before I pull it out.

This is why....When i was younger (around 7) we were on a long drive from the Gold Coast to Bundaberg : and at the Matilda on the way Dad filled up the car. I got out coz i was a 'daddy's girl' and i was just talking to him. Needless to say he wasnt really listening, just watching stuff going on around him, but i kept talking, i seem to have that affect on people, anyway....when the fuel tank was full he pulled the nozzle straight out and in the one motion, as the nozzle was directed at me, put it straight back on the pump. There was a spray of petrol droplets, all of which, it seemed, managed to get me. Now it may not have been much, but it stunk and made me spew on the side of the car. So as terrible as it is, i still smelt like spew and petrol for the few hours left of the trip, even though mum threw away my clothes and wrapped me in a towel before we left. :

I try and avoid filling up at all because of that incident. I just hope that by the time it really needs more fuel Brett will be driving...means i wont have to pay either! :

[fangq]

Originally Posted by chief

I shake it and lift up the hose to get the drops out. Pathetic really.

I place the fuel cap in the opened hand grip when refueling and and sit back and watch the other punters wondering why I have a magic fuel nozzle that doesn't require hands on ;-) It still clicks off at presets or full load on board. I pay bogan VL drivers to shake out the last coupla drops from the nozzle < BG>

Steve

[AWD Chaser]

Originally Posted by mattp

I only shake to avoid having the fuel drip on my paint. What's 2 drops of fuel worth?

About two gold coins these days... no one takes a pound of flesh any more...

[xdclevo]

I don't really worry about wasting time shaking, as i'm too keen to get back in and drive again. But same as most people, i just don't let fuel go over my rear bumber.(well, sometimes i do : )

[Full Spectrum]

Pull out shake it all about sounds

I get every last drop so it won't drip all over the car.

[[Tonko]]

im a shaker, just to stop getting it all over myself, my ea used to bulid up pressure so if you go to fast it sprayed all over the car and myself.that, prices and the car not starting, i hated refuelling...

[schmidty]

I laugh at people like you all when i fill up!!!! Seriously, do you do 80 on the highway too because its more economical?

Seriously, you'd shake about 5c max of extra fuel out. My ute costs me about $100 - $105 per fill, and i fill it 3 times a week. Put between $100 - $150 in the missus car per week, so 5 fills, @ 5c bonus per fill, thats 25c bonus fuel per week, or $12.50 per year bonus, on a fuel bill of somewhere around $20k per year.

Did you ever think that as well as shaking the hose, you could turn your car off at lights and while coasting down hills as well!????

Its gotta be 1 of th most tight **** things to do. Saw a shick pick up the 95 pulp and 98pulp hose as well and shake those just incase there were drips in them as well! now that was sad. Then last night a guy at the servo walked up to me and asked me for money for fuel! The guy i was talking to gave him 10 bucks. A much better result for him than shaking hoses! ha.

[snypereb]

Make sure i get every last drop its to expensive to let the person behind you get what you paid for!!

[orsomxc]

Originally Posted by schmidty

I laugh at people like you all when i fill up!!!! Seriously, do you do 80 on the highway too because its more economical?

Seriously, you'd shake about 5c max of extra fuel out. My ute costs me about $100 - $105 per fill, and i fill it 3 times a week. Put between $100 - $150 in the missus car per week, so 5 fills, @ 5c bonus per fill, thats 25c bonus fuel per week, or $12.50 per year bonus, on a fuel bill of somewhere around $20k per year.

Did you ever think that as well as shaking the hose, you could turn your car off at lights and while coasting down hills as well!????

Its gotta be 1 of th most tight **** things to do. Saw a shick pick up the 95 pulp and 98pulp hose as well and shake those just incase there were drips in them as well! now that was sad. Then last night a guy at the servo walked up to me and asked me for money for fuel! The guy i was talking to gave him 10 bucks. A much better result for him than shaking hoses! ha.

Love your work!

[DOC]

Certainly is a funny thread this one, watching what all the young kids do, as you get older you learn to just take your time and when you have finished filling up to just slowly remove the pump, this will avoid you the embaresment of flicking those few left over drips around.

[fiery]

I proudly am a shaker.. Why not?? Nothing better to do at that time :

And I get irritated if a nozzle dribbles where it shouldn't.. makes it a mess to clean up, which I can't be bothered with anymore :newangel:

[Professor Farnsworth]

in all honesty i shake the thing as someone else said, to try and avoid dripping fuel on the paintwork.. the extra 10 seconds of driving that those few drops provide is neither here nor there.. lol @ people

[McobraR]

yeh im a shaker too, even tho i dont pay for it lol. Not only for the extra drops but like someone else said, to avoid getting it on the paint, and on myself too :Reverend:

[Full Spectrum]

Originally Posted by Tonko351

im a shaker, just to stop getting it all over myself, my ea used to bulid up pressure so if you go to fast it sprayed all over the car and myself.that, prices and the car not starting, i hated refuelling...

That happens to me at times also, Builds up pressure and first kick spits it out sometimes.

[Professor Farnsworth]

actually the first EL Ghia i owned, which was a 4.0 litre, used to click ALL THE TIME when you tried to fill up. You had to hold the trigger at about 30% for it to fill without stopping ever 2 seconds. Not only did it brake your arm from holding the trigger on that angle for so long, but people who come in behind you, fill up, go in and pay, then come back out just sit there cracking the sads like you're doing it on purpose ;p

thankfully the new EL doesn't do that

[luke]

I'm surprised theres been no references to this but...

I unscrew the nozzle & return it to the pump.

:Reverend:

[Steffo]

I pretty much always fill from empty to full... so I let the pump click once or twice, then just pull it out, sort of up facing, so nothing drips on the paint, and yeah. Shaking about... waste of time and effort.

[LTDHO]

I shake it because a) I'm a man and b) I don't want petrol on the paint.

If you watch at servo's men usually shake whilst women go straight back.

[schmidty]

Originally Posted by luke

I'm surprised theres been no references to this but...

I unscrew the nozzle & return it to the pump.

:Reverend:

Worst thing is you're smarter than all of us suckers puting in petrol at the moment.

So the my way of getting some satisfaction back on you gas users, is that i filled up a TD Landcruiser the other night, took 135L of diesel. I was pulled in, filled, paid for, and driving out and the guy next to me had only put in 55L of LPG!!!!!! I don't have the patience to fill a car up with LPG!!!!

[fiery]

Originally Posted by LTDHO

I shake it because a) I'm a man and b) I don't want petrol on the paint.

If you watch at servo's men usually shake whilst women go straight back.

I can assure you that assumption would not actually be totally correct.. maybe some of us females shake cos we can and......mmm leaving it at that now :

[Professor Farnsworth]

i think this comes down to an authoritarian type situation.. i mean males are instinctively more accomplished in 'shaking out the last few drops', it's something we're very proud of.

[luke]

Originally Posted by schmidty

Worst thing is you're smarter than all of us suckers puting in petrol at the moment.

So the my way of getting some satisfaction back on you gas users, is that i filled up a TD Landcruiser the other night, took 135L of diesel. I was pulled in, filled, paid for, and driving out and the guy next to me had only put in 55L of LPG!!!!!! I don't have the patience to fill a car up with LPG!!!!

Have to agree there... I often get dirty looks from whoever is waiting behind me while I fill my 68 litre tank... Some pumps seem to take forever...

[schmidty]

Originally Posted by luke

Have to agree there... I often get dirty looks from whoever is waiting behind me while I fill my 68 litre tank... Some pumps seem to take forever...

Old mans F-350 takes 160L of gas, and it's embarrassing to fill it up. Takes forever,

1 of the builders i do work for has a dedicated gas falcon ute, reckons its the part he hates about owning it, has to fill it a lot more often that he did with his petrol ute, and takes twice as long.

[baboon]

I usually shake as well. Occasionally I shake my clenched fist because sometimes those pumps will go click at the slightest press of the pump. When this happens it sometimes takes me 5 mins to fill 50 litres ffs!

[Charliewool]

Brings back memories of the old unmanned self-serve places that took 20c pieces. You'd put in 2 or 3 20c pieces to start the pump, and have your mate jump on the hose while you held the trigger & it had a siphoning effect.... A full tank for 40c!

[Belle_Hemmi]

im a shaker only so the excess fuel doesnt run down the side of my car