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[darkangel51n]

Going into my local supermarket fuel station i shoved 20 quid in the tank and then found my self 2p over the mark. well i payed the 2p and thought no more about it. the following week the same thing happened again, only this time the guy at the next pump i noted had done the same thing. The wife of course just thought i was blind and need a eye test so on my 3rd visit i was determined that id stop on my 20 quid mark but, it jumped from 19.97 to 20.02.  having pulled the cashier about it she simply didnt want to know. and insisted the wife was right, get a eye test. there are 16 pumps here and if each motorist went over by 2p some ones making a lot of money. got on the blower to trading standards who pointed out that if you go over by 2p you dont loose out, how do they work that out you cant buy 2p worth of fuel can you. iv used loads of other stations with no problems only this one. now they are saying the pumps are just sensitive and little they can do about it, iv never heard such a load of idiot in all my life. most people will pay the 2p without givin it a thought, my point is if 1000 cars fill up there a day at 2p over each some ones making a lot of money 

[Plomien]

report it to trading standards they will send someone to test the pumps

[Del Boy]

There's a lot of stations around here which do exactly this. It's a pain in the arse.

[Taxi_Driver]

Most pumps round up and they use 3 decimal places.....

So if the display says 20.00 when you stop filling, but you have actually put in 20.006, when you return the filler back to the pump the display will change to 20.01 

If the pump says 20.02 before you return the filler to the pump, then you have put in 20.02 

Also some pumps get behind showing what has been dispenced....I use one sometimes that actually stops increasing in price when im still filling.....then it can jump 20p or so to catch up....

[amba]

If I ever go over the £40 I nearly always put in by 1p I give the cashier  £60 they never can be bothered to sort out £19=99 in change .

Whilst I am not trying to rip the petrol station off by 1p I agree the majority of pumps will nit stop on an exact poundage.

[Dishevelled Den]

report it to trading standards they will send someone to test the pumps

Yes I would agree with that - if you think there's something wrong, report it.

There has been a tendency for many people to let things such as poor service and questionable behaviour (for example) to slide on by without challenge - that's why this country is in such a mess.

In this case there may be nothing at all untoward in what's happening - a feature of the measuring system or other element that doesn't cause any shortfall of dispensed fuel against the price paid - but there's no harm in asking T.S. to check it out.

[andyc]

All the pumps around here are the same but they all keep a pot of pennies under the counter.

Local Tescos have just put in new pumps so you can pre-set the mount you want to put in in either pounds or Ltrs

Andy

[bigboykarl]

if it does it to 1000 cars aday it's only £20

[Elite Pete]

If I put £20.01 I always try to give them £30, they can't be arsed to give me £9.99 change so most of the time they give me the £10 back

[plym ian]

if it does it to 1000 cars aday it's only £20

yes but think if it's £20 in 1 station then 10 will be £200 and so on so yes some one is making money somewhere that's just in a day multiply that by a month or year

[Kevin Wood]

You have to ask yourself what resolution they measure the fuel flow with. 2p's worth is only 15ml. It could well be that the pump only has a resolution of 20ml, or 50ml perhaps, so it could be jumping up in steps of 3 or 4p, meaning that you can't hit an exact amount.

[D]

Your going by the sale amount. Look at the volume. If the increase in volume requires a jump from £ 0.97 to £1.2 then thats probably why this happens. You buy petrol in ml or litres not pounds and pence, if you get my drift. As Kevin said, the resolution of the pump matters.

[Rods2]

If you really want to cry just think how much of that £1.30/l is stolen by Dick Turpin in tax. That's the real scandal. 

[TheBoy]

If you really want to cry just think how much of that £1.30/l is stolen by Dick Turpin in tax. That's the real scandal. 

Accept that 2/3rds of your pre-tax pay has to go to the government to pay for the inefficiencies of the mindless NHS, and the reckless borrowing of the previous administration.  Then the way they extract it becomes irrelevent.

[waspy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWIz4eYj3fE