matttyl
Footballguy
I have an OBD2 scanner.
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What's Normal? - When filling up with gas, do you try to round to the nearest dollar? (1 Viewer)
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matttyl
Footballguy
It’s all ball bearings these days.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
I drive the dang thing until the gas gauge dings at me. Then I head up to my favorite gas station and throw a fifty at the clerk. But that's just how I roll.
So you get three gallons. You must have to get to a gas station a lot
So it actually tells you the light is because you topped off your gas tank? I top off all the time and have never had an engine light go on or have seen an appreciable difference in gas mileage
wlwiles
Footballguy
Not only do I let it stop on a random amount, but I don't even look to see what the amount is most of the time. I don't care. I drive a company vehicle and use their Voyager card. I couldn't tell you what the current gas price is, or whether it's higher or lower right now than it was last week/month/year.
brun
Footballguy
Years ago. Wife usually had checkbook responsibility. 1 month I balanced the checkbook. Made an entry to show a correction of less than $2. She asked what the error was. I said it was not material and the checkbook was now correct so who cares. She needed to find the error and correct the balance for every transaction from the original error to the last entry.
One of many things we saw differently.
matttyl
Footballguy
The scanner didn’t state that in those words, it read a code of the Toyota that I had to lookup. “Topping off” is one thing, overfilling is another.
-OZ-
Footballguy
Rustoleum
Footballguy
I just let the handle click and then before I drive off, I divide the trip odometer by the # of gallons pumped to see how much the onboard computer is lying about mileage.
tangential rant: Upthread it was mentioned about the places that charge way lessor cash than for credit. This infuriates me on several levels and I avoid those places if possible. 1. Don’t want to carry that much cash around. 2. No matter how much math you throw at me, you’ll never convince me it is cheaper to have to deal with cash, bank deposits, employees to handle it, count it, etc. than to run a card.
tangential rant: Upthread it was mentioned about the places that charge way lessor cash than for credit. This infuriates me on several levels and I avoid those places if possible. 1. Don’t want to carry that much cash around. 2. No matter how much math you throw at me, you’ll never convince me it is cheaper to have to deal with cash, bank deposits, employees to handle it, count it, etc. than to run a card.
In The Zone
Footballguy
I use to pump to the nearest dollar until I learned of this.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
I once drove off after it rolled over a penny of what I prepaid. I'm still expecting the cops to show up and ask me for that penny.
Galileo
Footballguy
Ha...If you prepaid, then that's on the station. They are supposed to shut it off. But if you want a clean conscience, next time you are there, throw a penny into that little tray by the register for someone else to benefit from.
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
easy, goes back to the old "pay in cash' days
you may not have had change, or didn't want to mess with it
old habits die hard, but I let this one go years ago
Actually had it happen to me in my old Explorer (2005 model I think). I was using credit cards but I would fill up at Costco when it was on the way home. I didn’t do it to round but would top off as much as I could. After that check engine light and the service guy telling me I didn’t need need to replace the part that time, I stopped topping off.
Dezbelief
Footballguy
What if some of those stores didn't report all of their cash sales? Would they come out ahead?
I'm with you though, I'm leary of stores that offer cash discounts.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
I don't round, nor do I know how much gas costs per gallon/to fill my tank.
My routine involves shoving the gas tank cap into the pump handle, to maximize the filling rate, while preventing it from stopping prematurely. While refueling, I clean my windows and side mirrors.
When the pump clicks, I finish cleaning the glass surfaces, return the pump, and decline my receipt.
I also habitually reset the trip odometer, and always try to drive until the empty light comes on, and then a little more.
My routine involves shoving the gas tank cap into the pump handle, to maximize the filling rate, while preventing it from stopping prematurely. While refueling, I clean my windows and side mirrors.
When the pump clicks, I finish cleaning the glass surfaces, return the pump, and decline my receipt.
I also habitually reset the trip odometer, and always try to drive until the empty light comes on, and then a little more.
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
You people are weird (the people trying to hit a round number)
Zow
Footballguy
Unions are strong in NJ.
zamboni
Footballguy
Probably will be the Columbia House police also looking for their penny.
Keerock
Footballguy
Can I play the OCD victim card?
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
No!
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
HUH?
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
Many pumps click off when you squeeze the trigger completely and/or they don’t have a way to go hands-free. Wedging the cap into the handle avoids these problems, allowing time to squeegee windows and external mirrors while the tank fills.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
Yeah, that fills too slowly for my patience level. When locked, it’s like half maximal flow .
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
I will strongly disagree with you here.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Don't do this. You can damage your car.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
OK, maybe not half, but not max. I am confident the wedged gas cap does better.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
As an aside, many places don’t have trigger locks, and HI is one of them. I believe they are illegal in NY and Australia.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
Voted no.
Only do it if I'm prepaying with cash which is maybe once a month
Only do it if I'm prepaying with cash which is maybe once a month
jvdesigns2002
Footballguy
Definite yes for me. I only pay for gas with cash as gas station credit card readers are commonly tampered with and compromised, and many gas stations do offer a lower price per gallon on cash transactions. Because of that- I either want to use my entire prepaid amount, or try to get as close to catching the nearest whole dollar amount so thatI dont have to deal with a bunch of loose change.
Nugget
Footballguy
I haven’t had a vehicle with a gas cap for at least 10 years - do you have any concern with an overflow or spillage situation?
ghostguy123
Footballguy
Anything other than filling the tank full seems silly, and yeah, overfilling is dumb, and overfilling to make it a nice round even number or whatever is dumb x 10
Keerock
Footballguy
Apple Pay/Gas station app down? I rarely use CCs at the pump.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
holdover from when dinosaurs walked the earth with folded bills of currency in their wallet
$20.80? I can probably squeeze another 20 cents in that way I won't get any change. Although the dinosaurs carried a rubber coin purse (which their kid made in shop class) for just such an occassion.
belljr
Footballguy
Always use CC.... had one issue once. Got refunded and a new card sent. Not a big deal. Sucked but whatever
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Interesting - in Georgia you have to have a functioning gas cap to get your emissions done. I guess you could get one and then not use it or discard it but I’ve never heard of somebody not using gas caps.
belljr
Footballguy
Many new cars have a sealed intake. There is no cap. They will pass emissions.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
No. I now know those are reasons what I do is discouraged, but neither has ever happened with my vehicles, tmk.
All the pumps still maintain a mechanism to click off, so the first seems highly unlikely. And anything violent enough to pull the nozzle out would almost certainly dislodge the cap (which is usually attached to the vehicle anyway).
Starting a fire is the other reason you‘ll find on the internet, though I’m not using the cap jam as an excuse to shuffle my feet in the car, check my phone, pet furry animals, brush my hair, etc., so I don’t think I‘m generating excess static electricity.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
LOOK AT ME, I GOT A FANCY CAPLESS CAR!!1!!!Juan!!!
belljr
Footballguy
Just so you know you hillbillies can't use a garden hose to siphon gas......
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
Another interesting What’s Normal: How many apps do you have on your phone?
Personally, can stand extra screens of junk I barely use. I limit my apps to one screen, plus one, so the second screen has unobstructed wallpaper of my last cat.
Currently, that’s 13, which is my maximum, unless I want to shrink some widgets.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
I don’t use debit cards for this reason, as I believe their fraud protection is typically worse than cc.
Just had my cc info stolen at the US Open, and it really wasn’t that big a deal - the cc company notified me almost immediately, even though it was a small purchase, at the venue I had attended just a few hours earlier. Pretty impressive they picked it up. Inactivated the card and mailed another within a couple days. Fortunately I was going home, as I only have a single card, and never carry cash, so the logistics of staying in NY might have been tricky.
Anyway, my point is, any time you use a cc the info can be stolen.
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Tick
Footballguy
EV, baybee! But I never did this anyway - just paid with a credit card.
I did once have the pump stop exactly on 10.00 gallons, which exposed that the gas station was screwing us - using fake numbers, gas was listed as 1.999, and I was charged $20. I never went back to that station.
I did once have the pump stop exactly on 10.00 gallons, which exposed that the gas station was screwing us - using fake numbers, gas was listed as 1.999, and I was charged $20. I never went back to that station.
jvdesigns2002
Footballguy
I don’t use apple pay and I try to keep the number of apps that have my credit card number to a minimum. Besides that—neither of those options nets me the cash price at the pump anyhow. Often times out here—there is a 10-12 cent a gallon difference between paying in cash or paying with a card. My tank is almost 20 gallons—so paying in cash for a full tank can save me a couple of bucks. That’s worth walking a couple hundred steps to me.
jvdesigns2002
Footballguy
I understand that, but I’m just passing along information that a buddy of mine told me. He and his family own several gas stations in the Los Angeles and Orange County area. He says that he is constantly dealing with issues due to tampering with the credit card readers. Most places where you use credit cards involves employees that oversee the actual credit card reading process. In most gas stations, the credit card readers are out in the open and are available to Be tampered with 24 hours a day.
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