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What's Normal? - When filling up with gas, do you try to round to the nearest dollar? (1 Viewer)

When filling up with gas, do you try to round to the nearest dollar?

  • Yes

    Votes: 34 19.1%

  • No

    Votes: 140 78.7%

  • I don't drive a fossil fueled vehicle

    Votes: 4 2.2%
  • Total voters
    178
Always. I try to go in with a specific dollar amount when I am able to do so. I'll walk in and pre pay just to make sure I hit the amount in my mind. But if I pay at the pump, I'm watching that dial once it gets close to my number as if I'm getting ready to hit the stop button on Press My Luck hoping it will land exactly where I want it to with no Whammies!!
 
Don't overfill your tank, as mentioned it's bad.

Only time I tried to hit a dollar mark is when I'm not filling all the way up. Our Jeep is used somewhat sparingly so I usually don't fill it up.
 
Would be interested to see a poll, cash or credit... and has that changed of late. Many of the stations near me are going to significantly cheaper if you pay cash.
 
Keerock said:
Geeze people... OCD down?
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I used to when I was a kid and paying by cash, but for the last 20+ years I don't care where the amount lands.
HOWEVER, OCD is most certainly up as I always reset the tripometer and calculate the mpg based on the miles driven/gallons pumped in because the mpg indicators on vehicles are at best estimates.
 
Yankee23Fan said:
No, but I live in NJ where we live like kings and have other people pump our gas for us.
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So annoying. I plan all trips from DC to the northeast to ensure I don't have to stop for gas in NJ. I'd rather stop at the hood Chesapeake rest stops in MD, with their sharps dispensaries and all kinds of freaks.
 
I used to, but now I just fill the tank. No sense in stressing myself out over trying to get it just right and missing
 
Not anymore. It is too hard with the higher price of gas. When gas was $2 or less, I would round it.
 
Not since I quit balancing my checkbook down to the penny, which was many, many years ago - which would be another What's Normal question to through into your queue.
 
My wife is one of these people who likes to have our accounts balanced to the absolute penny. So I do my best to annoy her by putting 30.27. 28.09 or whatever odd number I can stop the pump on, just to watch her reaction when she is balancing our accounts.
 
Poke_4_Life said:
matttyl said:
No, and it’s bad for the vehicle to try. You can overfill the tank and harm your charcoal canister - ask me how I know.
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How do you know?

I also do not as I've heard it is bad for the vehicle, but I have no evidence or knowledge of why.
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Doing so can overfill tank and fluid can get into charcoal canister which will affect gas mileage and throw a check engine light.
 
Keerock said:
Geeze people... OCD down?
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Reminds of when I bought a car from my step-father about 20 years ago. He'd owned the car about 10 years. I found a notebook in the glovebox where he'd entered the mileage, volume and cost of gas for every single fill since he bought the car. I thought about keeping it going but decided to ditch it the first time I put gas in that car.
 
jamny said:
Nope. What ever it is, it is.
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Same, except I stop it in a range where I feel is enough to get me by for the next week or two. I don't drive a bunch (3x a week to work and to drop off/pick up my son at school and that's about it).
 
when I paid cash (long ago) I would try and round up to an even dollar

now I just try to get as much as I can in the tank so when the auto-fill clicks off I manually squeeze some more in there.
 
Just like many others, I used to when it mattered (paying cash). Pay at the pump with CC and no need to every worry about that.

I also figured it was urban legend about topping off and have never had any issues with doing so. I am interested to hear that someone actually has had an issue because of it. I am somewhat wondering how they knew it was because of topping off and not something else.
 
matttyl said:
Poke_4_Life said:
matttyl said:
No, and it’s bad for the vehicle to try. You can overfill the tank and harm your charcoal canister - ask me how I know.
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How do you know?

I also do not as I've heard it is bad for the vehicle, but I have no evidence or knowledge of why.
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Doing so can overfill tank and fluid can get into charcoal canister which will affect gas mileage and throw a check engine light.
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How do you know the engine light was due to topping off and not something else?
 
Back in the days of cash, I probably did, but since I always use a credit card now, I'm not sure why I would possibly care about doing so.

ETA: also unless I'm in New York or traveling elsewhere, I don't really have a choice since some one else pumps my gas.
 
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