Always Touch Your Car Before Pumping Gas

If you spend only a day at the gas station, you can see just about everything. The “get every last drop in the tank” types, the nozzle tuggers, the nozzle ripper-offers! And possibly even a few near explosions! So today, we decided to spread the most common mistakes people make while fueling up!
For example, do you remember that thing about static electricity igniting invisible fuel vapors? Well, get this: when you get out of the car, your clothes sliding against the seat fabric creates some static charge. And when you grab that metallic nozzle, a spark can happen. That tiny spark can light up those gas vapors!
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TIMESTAMPS:
Putting gas in any container 0:24
Being distracted 0:55
Not looking at the pump screen 1:30
Topping off your tank 2:15
Using your card at the pump 2:38
Walking away while pumping 3:13
Not checking your tires 3:51
Not touching your car before pumping gas 4:20
Not washing your hands after a fill-up 5:00
Driving in circles 5:39
Not locking the car 6:10
Buying premium gas 6:40
Not knowing how to handle an emergency 7:20
SUMMARY:
- You can only pump gas into approved portable containers. You also can't fill them up inside your car or its trunk because static electricity can ignite fuel vapors. Always put the container on the ground.
- Don’t assume all pumps are accurate and in perfect working order. Equipment can go bad, and gas station workers might not notice it right away.
- Topping off your fuel tank can affect your car’s performance and could possibly damage the engine because of the built-up pressure.
- There’s this thing called card skimming - which is when an illegal reader is attached to a payment terminal. Anybody can walk up to the pump and put that thing on there!
- If your tires are underinflated, you don’t get as good gas mileage. Then you end up spending more because you have to fill up more often.
- To dispel any electric charge on you, just touch a metal part of your vehicle before you reach for the nozzle.
- Keep some hand sanitizer with you at all times, and use it as soon as you’re done filling up. Don’t wait until you’ve reached your destination because you’ll already have spread those germs all over your car, phone, and your face!
- Look at the dashboard and find the small arrow near the gas gauge. If it’s pointing left, the car’s tank is on the left.
- Even if you’re quick about grabbing your snack or paying for your gas, skilled thieves will already have “slid” into your car, grabbed anything valuable, and fled the scene with time to spare!
- Get premium only if your car requires high-octane gasoline.
- Let's say you place the nozzle inside the tank and suddenly see it’s caught on fire. First, don't remove the nozzle - just back away. Shut off the fuel at the pump using the emergency shut-off switch.
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I actually have some stuff in either guilty or I need to focus more. Things I need to focus when at a Gas Station. Number 1: Topping your tank for putting gas in your car. If the pump clicks, don't put more in or you will get a leak and still same gas out of your car down below. Number 2: Not touching your car before pumping. You might have some static electricity when you get off your seat and you dont wanna touch the pumper itself. If you don't, you might get some static electricity on the pumper, it might case a fire. (Which I need to focus in this one more....) Number 3: Not washing your hands after pumping gas from your car: You don't know how many germs are on the gas pumper itself. Someone might be sick or their cousins to be touching the pumper, and you might catch their virus or germs. So don't touch your face, inside car, and anything else that's yours. Always wash your hands after pumping your gas or keep some hand sanitizer by you! Number 4: Driving in circles: if you see a picture in your car that says gas tank is on right or left, remember to look at it. Always remember to Stay on the Bright Side of life! Thank you for those tips! :)

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I think all the garages fiddle their pumps as I always look at the pump while filling up and notice the pump registers an amount before I can feel or see the fuel going into my tank. Once I picked up the petrol nozzle instead of diesel so I put it back and went to tell the cashier and he told me I had to pay 30 pence and I said but no fuel came out !!!!!

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About topping up-pardon me for thinking my 14-gal tank should hold something close to 14 gal! The pump stops at 11 so am I just supposed to throw away 20+% of my car’s cruising range (nearly 90 mi) in a state where signs saying “Next services 90 mi” abound? Sorry but I’d rather actually reach my destination…

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In my country people are not allowed for filling up themselves because there not trained only workers are supposed to do that.

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Some great advice here but it’s all so USA -centric!! You do realise that the internet is global, right? In the country I’m in now there is no self-service pumps, the main problem here is they add water to the petrol (yes, all of us outside of the USA say petrol instead of gas) but how to know? That would be really helpful.

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Considering I live in Oregon not many of these apply to here. We don’t pump our own gas here same with New Jersey

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What is the reason they dont let you pump your own gas. I was in Jersey and noticed that but never knew why?

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Putting wrong type of fuel as in gas and diesel are rare. Possible but rare. The two types of fuel have different nozzles as in fuel and diesel have two different sizes. Nozzles are supposed to be color coded which for regular/mid grade/premium is not as critical but Diesel is supposed to be green. Some merchants (BP) the corporate color is green so it is possible for all pumps to be green. The color is simply a rubber coating over the nozzle. Premium fuel: Not critical but again reduced performance and only put as much in as necessary to get to next stop. Example I had a tune that required 93 Octane. During a trip back from Tulsa for my final stretch back to Dallas the highest available octane there was 91 Octane. I talked to my tuning company and we agreed that the 91 would be O.K. But expect reduced performance so plan higher acceleration distance. Put 1/2 tank in and worked to get me home. As soon as possible after arrival I ran the rest of the 91 octane as low as I safely could and tipped back to 93 Octane which was available In DFW. Also not that some engine with a premium requirement usually specify 91 Octane minimum. For states that have it great but most of the stations in my area the mid grade is only 89 so I have to go up to 93 which depending on station can be .20-.30 cents higher than mid grade.

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Then make sure you know where the emergency shutoff is before you start pumping!