Anybody else think these new gas pumps that the state forced all gas stations to purchase in the name of cutting pollution (at hefty $7k - $10k a piece, putting tons of small stations out of business) are pieces of ****? I roll up with a quarter tank of gas in my Tacoma, and start pumping. It shuts off after putting in 1 gallon. WTF. I start it again, and it shuts off again after 1.5 gallons. After doing this 2 or 3 more times it finally keeps putting gas in. It stops after 4 gallons. I'm not sure how much is in there so I stop to be safe.

Get in my car and drive away, as the gauge slowly goes up like it does in newer cars. It stops at 3/4 tank!!! These ****ing new piece of **** gas pumps don't fill your tank up all the way. It does the exact same thing in my Camaro. EVERY SINGLE TIME, and i've tried multiple pumps in multiple stations. On top of that, it still drips gas when you take it out. Next time I'm gonna keep adding manually till it pumps gas all over the ground. How would you like that CARB?

I ****ing hate this state.

Anybody have this problem?

...Theres an alternative to manually using the pump?

That sounds awful. Is the idea to deter you from filling up your tank altogether?

All pumps stop when you reach full, sounds to me these newfangled ones just do a terrible job of detecting when exactly that is.



Your pumps don't have a little latch in the handle to keep it pumping without squeezing? I'd think you crazy brits would at least have the technology for a latch!

I don't have a car, so maybe.

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Oh, okay. Then it's a bug, not a feature. Gotcha.

I walk and use the bus, I'm fine with it.

that happened to me on a desolate highway in PA one time

my gas light went on and the pump only spit out 25cents worth of gas It was also about 20 degrees and snowing pretty bad so I didnt feel like getting stranded.

Thankfully I had enough to make it to the next town and fill up there.

sometimes in below freezing weather gas pumps have a hard time pumping the fuel from the tank, especially if the lines have frozen. Another problem that could have been in that situation is there not being enough fuel in the tank.

yay i get to go back to life as a gas station junky this weekend

I haven't bought gas in any of the stations that have new pumps yet

Will report back when I do

Yea I kind of figured it was that. I should have gotten gas way earlier than that, but I was dumb!

That happened to me today, but it's a gas station I use all the time so I'm not sure what the problem was.

Maybe you were just using it wrong.

Since this is California, it probably isn't a "bug".

....that's what she said?

I don't think it's just a CA thing. I've found this happens to me randomly over the years.
I've gotten good at getting the maximum flow without it shutting off. I change the angle of the pump and only put it half way in. That works for me.

The pumps have swine flu.

Quite possibly true. Sometimes shoving the nozzle in too far throws the pump off.

And now insert obvious innuendo jokes.

Psh, some parts of Texas just recently stopped using the pumps that have the 'roll over' counters. Mainly because they gave more gas than it said.

what is happening with normal pumps, i'm not sure what the Cali-pumps are doing, is that sometimes the speed is too much for the pipe to your tank to clear before it backs up a bit and that triggers the safety shutoff. I don't know if the Cali-pumps are doing this, but try and use a slower flow when using it?

This could also be the case.

Screw making a fence to barricade Mexico from the U.S... let's just barricade all the crazies in Cali.

You have to know your car. My car has 14.5 gal (54.88 L) capacity. When the gauge is below the E, I know I have < 1 gal (3.76 L) left and that's about 30 mi if I'm careful on the throttle. Just keep pumping gas until you know you've really filled up that tank. Sometimes I can squeeze an extra 2 gal.

I usually take out the nozzle, let the gas settle down then resume pumping. Rinse/repeat.

The new problems are not my main concern. It's the fact that gas is $2.50 again

Yeah.. for no reason too.. demand for gas has gone down.

Yeah they just tried to sneak it in there and hope nobody would notice

It's getting to be summer/travel time. Gas always gets more expensive this time of year.

I have people to pump gas for me. I'm above that ****.

Full service is more expensive usually.

The service gas stations here charge +10 cents a gallon

Yea. I was totally clueless one time driving up to a full service station..
I was like "FILL HER UP!!!" and the guy was like ".... You sure ...? You can get it 10 cents cheaper across the street...."

Du'h. There is one place on my way home from school that has a full service for the same price. I almost convinced the guy to run away with the money. He had like 700 bucks. He said he'd do it for a grand. >< lol I'm horrible.

I don't have a choice.

I would rather pump my gas myself, I don't trust other people. If they even get 1 drop of fuel on my paint I would get out and soak them in it, then light a match.

just for a point of info, pumps in the UK are totally manual, you have to stand there the entire time until it reaches full which is when it cuts out or you just release when you have what you want, the same goes for all the different parts of europe I've seen too.

What is so damn hard about feeling a tank of fuel anyway, I think a lot of the sensors are just based around the premise that when it detects liquid/fuel around the end of the nozzle it cuts out, at least that's my impression of these things when filling my bike up where I can actually see the fuel in the tank and when it gets full.

yeah i never really understood the whole "lets enact harsher, prohibitively expensive regulations during a recession" thing. however i have not had the pleasure of trying one of these new nozzles...

Don't ever move to Oregon then.

Mechanically you could use an aspirator to shut off a valve. Electrically you could detect the capacitance of octane.

They don't have full service station here at all, as far as I know. Maybe by where the rich people live.

YO BRO YOU GOT MY WHIP ALL SORTS OF ****ED UP