The grumpy thread

[castros_bro]

3p x 1000 = £30 (I think, maths is not my strong point)

 

seems unlikely it would be worth the hassle for them

 

But out of  the 3p rip off  a percentage goes as fuel duty (58p a liter ~ 50% today) and also 20% VAT so yer gov gets 70% of the 3p leaving 0.9p for the Shell execs to buy the odd hobnob for their employees.

[Bren]

Happens to me regularly.

 

It's wrong, but life is too short to argue over 2p.

[dollywobbler]

This has never happened to me. I WIN AT LIFE.

[Des]

What about when a car dealer specifies the mileage of a used car, there could be anything up to 0.9 of a mile hiding on that last red and white digit on the speedo which is routinely overlooked, OK, probably been clocked to buggery anyway but it's TEH PRINCIPLZ. #OMG ripoff dominiclittlewoodz innit.

[tooSavvy]

Sum balance here....

 

Guy I knew had a toffee/fudge barrow.

 

He was using 'tip balance' to dole his loose baggies. Punter happy when weigh arm went down 'dink!'.

 

He bought el-cheappo jap digiscales.

 

Display facing punter.. "A quarter, was that?" - blink - blink "thankyou"

 

He reckoned it paid for itself in a week.

 

 

TS

[Richard]

When it's added on at the start I would think it's because a small amount has leaked past the seals and left an air gap, which is filled when the pump is turned on.

 

I've never noticed it either, maybe it only happens with petrol.

[Bobthebeard]

Our local Shell station used to have a pot of pennies on the counter for just such occasions. It had a label saying 'don't stress about the odd penny, help yourself if needed'

The station has recently been massively refurbished and the pot has gone now....

[Pillock]

Cash? How quaint. I use my FLEXIBLE FRIEND.

 

Sometimes I stop on £20.01 or something but that's usually more to do with the fact that as petrol gets more expensive, the smallest amount the pumps deliver has stayed the same. Compared to when I first started driving and petrol was 75p a litre or something, now it's £1.20 you've got a much greater chance of squeezing the trigger for the last 1p to drop it, and it goes and puts 2p on because one "chunk" of petrol now costs more. 

 

If it's the work car, I just fill it every time and often don't twig how much it's cost until I'm doing my receipts at the end of the month Sometimes I'll try and round up to the next litre just because I get an extra nectar point that way which is worth 0.0000002p or something. Incidentally, the new drop in fuel prices is quite noticeable over long periods, I'm saving about £6 per tankful and I do 4-5 tankfulls per month. 

 

I appreciate this query was about the pump adding on when you put it back though, I read somewhere a semi-official answer (from someone who calibrates pumps) that said it was due to the speed of delivery of a modern pump, it splashes back when it's filling up the neck of the tank and can affect the sensor in the end of the pump that knows when to shut off - essentially it shuts off, but a bit more dribbles into your tank. They seemed to think you'd actually got the extra fuel it was now reading and it hadn't ripped you off.

[Bren]

Dwp arseholes. Since when have I been a customer? Money from esa not got in yesterday. Hate being on benefits but disability puts paid to a job at the time being. Rang up today and spoke to the most useless "customer service advisor " known to man. She camt tell me when I will get paid due to not receiving fitness for work note from doctor which I sent last week. I was told I should have took it to my local jobcentre to have them fax it over. I've been to 3 different jobcentres to be told they won't fax items over and explained this to her. Car insurance bounced due to not enough in the bank now,rent going to have to be missed too and no fuel in car. Due to my walking being bad I kind of rely on my car which I explained to be told it's not her problem. Fucksticks

It is designed like this to stop people claiming in the hope people will get so pissed off they give up.

[dave21478]

Went shopping this morning. The supermarket have re-paved the bit outside their main doors. Great. Except it now has a 2cm kerb all the way round.

Doesnt sound like much but try getting an empty trolley up a 2cm kerb....You have to physically lift it, and I reckon coming out with a laden trolley and going down it diagonally will cowp the lot over.

 

Yeah, its not the end of the world or anything, but Jesus fuck, man.....who thought that would be a good idea? Who looked at the finished job and thought yep...that`ll do nicely?

 

People got paid money -probably a fucking five figure sum- to do that. Just the complete lack of common sense and bloody thoughtlessness is unbelievable.

[Skizzer]

Our local Shell station used to have a pot of pennies on the counter for just such occasions. It had a label saying 'don't stress about the odd penny, help yourself if needed'

The station has recently been massively refurbished and the pot has gone now....

 

This - same at my local.  I think it was a Shell customer service thing.  Not many people seem to pay cash now though.

 

Thing is, people are very quick to shout 'OMG rip off bastards' but generally pretty slow to give credit, thanks or loyalty for decent customer service.  I can understand why they might have stopped bothering with it.  Shame.

[Danblez]

Sometimes I get a dribble out before the I press the handle. I think I am getting your 3ps worth.

[richardthestag]

I carry a small step ladder in my car so that when I finish fuelling I can raise the hose as high as possible to drain every drop into my tank. I stand for at least 5 mins to catch every last bit. 

 

etc

[scdan4]

ebay tyres that i collected last night and looked ok in the dark are actually cracked to shit.

 

To cheer me up the car has decided to put the EML on. Hurrah.

[Christine]

This happened last year didn't it , the roll over 2p software ... after replacing the filler nozzle ?.There was a rumpus at the time and it suddenly stopped ..If its £20 and a penny or two , I always hand over two twentys ..that fucks them back , and it gets knocked off ! 

 

Pay by card they can't knock it off .

 

After that transaction , I then say " oooooooh  , Blue Bensons too please " which are 5.99 ,so they have to give me a penny .

 

 Another thing is the check for forged notes when you pay.. I love slowly checking any notes i get given in my change especially if there's a load of people behind me and the cashier is trying to go quick !!

[barrett]

right on, really sticking it to the man there. I'm sure Big Petroleum are right now entirely rethinking their fuel delivery methods due to your systematic campaign of antagonism towards their minimum-wage employees

[twosmoke300]

vac pipes? ^^^

[Christine]

Yes due to my pig headedness last time i got it stopped for everyone 

[Lord Sterling]

Bah! My swapping of Merc 4 Rover didn't quite go as smoothly as I'd thought. Merc got up to storage yard Ok, paid my advance to them, filled up the KV6 with coolant as I noticed the expansion tank was empty, reconnected battery and let the Rover for a bit whilst I swapped stuff from Merc to Rover.

 

As I set off the battery seemed Ok on the Rover, then on the way down I'd decided to pass by the local petrol station to fill up when I noticed the temperature had risen to just under DANGER ZONE, then just outside the petrol station it rose into the DANGER RED ZONE.

 

I switched it off to let it cool down, I filled up with some petrol, paid and then the car wouldn't start. It sat there clicking away. A chap in a BINI pulled up beside me and I asked him if he wouldn't mind helping me jump start my car, he pulled open the bonnet of his BINI where we couldn't find the battery, then I found it sealed under some cover. There was one positive outlet sticking out but the negative was nowhere to be found, eventually I found what looked like the negative outlet and connected up. Nothing. We gave up and I called on the RAC whom I'm about to go and meet now.

 

Sigh...

[Bobthebeard]

If you have been a victim* of this obvious* money making ruse just take it on the chin. Shuffle slowly back to your car with your head down. In all probability you may see a dropped 2 pence coin on the return journey! Maybe even a 5 pence coin FTW! Make a detour around the tyre inflater and collect lost valve caps. All for 2 pee!

[colnerov]

This happened last year didn't it , the roll over 2p software ... after replacing the filler nozzle ?.There was a rumpus at the time and it suddenly stopped ..If its £20 and a penny or two , I always hand over two twentys ..that fucks them back , and it gets knocked off ! 

 

Pay by card they can't knock it off .

 

After that transaction , I then say " oooooooh  , Blue Bensons too please " which are 5.99 ,so they have to give me a penny .

 

 Another thing is the check for forged notes when you pay.. I love slowly checking any notes i get given in my change especially if there's a load of people behind me and the cashier is trying to go quick !!

 

 Ahh yes, petty victories. Try checking the coins as well, there are a lot of moody £1 coins about which vending machines won't take.

 

 Colin

[castros_bro]

As a  trained psychololololologist I see this distressing nefarious practice far too often taking a severe toll on the unsuspecting motorized transport owning public. Joining one of the Dripping Nozzle victim support groups which have been formed in Yorkshire often helps one get over or even live with the trauma and we encourage the victims to seek redress in the courts, often finding that a mere £75 (plus disbursements) Solicitors letter is enough the get the 3p refunded.

[scdan4]

vac pipes? ^^^

no idea.

 

i've had a quick peek and can't see anything obvious, so i shall ignore it until the otherside of the weekend.

 

Mates having a look for a generic odb cable he thinks he has, so may well wait until then, assuming no explosion and death in the meanwhile.

[Des]

Perhaps when those PPI companies have run out of mugs to stitch up they'll turn their attention to these fuel ovecharge scams, hold onto your fuel reciepts people, payday's coming.

[lisbon_road]

Buy LPG.  49p/litre (sometimes).  You stop worrying about the 3p, and anyway they don't seem to suffer from the creep.

[Pillock]

If someone paid for £20.01 with two twenties I'd take delight in handing over £19.99 made up of as much shrapnel as I thought I could get away with.

Someone's job is to count the tills at the end of the day. Which is harder to count, change or notes? Hmmm.....

[dave21478]

I carry a small step ladder in my car so that when I finish fuelling I can raise the hose as high as possible to drain every drop into my tank. I stand for at least 5 mins to catch every last bit. 

 

etc

 

A friends mum actually used to do that (minus the stepladder obviously). Despite it being explained multiple times she completely failed to grasp the fact that the valve is in the end of the hose, not the pump so its just not possible to get the fuel out the hose no matter how much she waves it up in the air.

 

 

My own fuel station moan was I once started filling up and the pump started whirring and the digits started whirling there was DEFINITELY no fuel going into my tank. By the time I realised It had racked up a couple of Euros. I told the dude in the booth and got the usual disinterested shrug. "Can you prove it?". Well, no, I cant. "Tough, then."

 

Only one possible solution for that.....

[robinmasters]

This happens to me, regularly. I carefully get an exact multiple of ten pound's worn off fuel, only for the pump to click on a few pence when I replace the nozzle, finger off the trigger.

 

I get them back by not using their fifty-pee airline; I drive across town to use another supermarkets free one. That'll show 'em.

[michael1703]

I have been told no it doesn't - but that was the dealer who told me that. So I suspect it probably does and by touching it the car will inject me with poison and fry its ECU probably.....will find out tonight as I got a battery from ECP and will put it in when home from work

What you could try... Is using a slave battery, connect jump leads to the terminals, then undo the terminals, remove old battery,fit new battery,refit terminals thus keeping a steady 12v to the grumpy little fucker so it doesn't notice

[michael1703]

Thought I'd be on here to complain about mot switchover, but... It's working ok

 

My grump is that they didn't tell me I was switching over today, I tried to start up the vts this morning only to get an error, I rang their line and a recorded message said that the error code means you've switched over