Petrol Pump Question

WindSock

During my time in New Zealand, I relished at the wonders of the running of their filling stations. One could key in the exact amount they wanted, insert the pump and stick it on the latch and have a wee stretch while u wait. You could even pay for your petrol (or diesel in my case) at the pump.

I notice here that the pumps have a latch, but they never work. Why not, pray tell? ( and I do check every time)

listermint

Its ireland!

The govenrment made a concious decision to make it as difficult as possible, It premotes free thought.

Its what makes it the land of saints and scholars

CJhaughey

I spoke to a filling station owner this morning and asked him the same thing, apparently health and safety forbids the use of the catch on the filling handle, however you can use a slim piece of wire to hold the catch open, the holes are still there just the pin is missing.

robtri

WindSock wrote: »

During my time in New Zealand, I relished at the wonders of the running of their filling stations. One could key in the exact amount they wanted, insert the pump and stick it on the latch and have a wee stretch while u wait. You could even pay for your petrol (or diesel in my case) at the pump.

I notice here that the pumps have a latch, but they never work. Why not, pray tell? ( and I do check every time)

welcome back from prison, windsock....
that is a great question, shame I have no idea why excpet, its Ireland, and the petrol companies won't invest money on technology like that, to ensure they maximise their profits here...

Eoin

Even if you had to hold the pump the whole time, it would be nice to key in how much you would like to dispense.

david

Tesco Dundrum has something similar but with some sign blu-tac'd over it?

CJhaughey

There are some pumps here that fill to a price but they are not as good as the kiwi ones, say you want 20 euro the first 18 fills quick and the next 2 takes about 2 minutes.
The NZ ones are made in NZ by a company in Marton and are very efficient, however the whole non latch thinig here negates them.

CJhaughey

CJhaughey wrote: »

I spoke to a filling station owner this morning and asked him the same thing, apparently health and safety forbids the use of the catch on the filling handle, however you can use a slim piece of wire to hold the catch open, the holes are still there just the pin is missing.

Health and safety my arse. Its a right pain not having the catch when filling up the car, although one station I use sometimes still has the catch.

Do you remember when Clarkson was filling the GT-R in Japan, even they have the catch and Id imagine they are very strict on health and safety in Japan

Owen

If you want to use the latch, take the lid from your petrol tank and wedge it in the handle *

* If you manage to blow up your car and the station with it, blame Unkel. It's his Forum

CJhaughey

Leighton Orange Sensibility wrote: »

Health and safety my arse. Its a right pain not having the catch when filling up the car, although one station I use sometimes still has the catch.

Do you remember when Clarkson was filling the GT-R in Japan, even they have the catch and Id imagine they are very strict on health and safety in Japan

Hey Don't shoot the messenger, This came from the owner, he had previously had a few pumps with the catch and when I went in this morning to fill up at the high speed diesel pump the pin was missing and when I asked thats what he told me.
Health and safety is by and large a crock of shyte IMO.

Cookie_Monster

CJhaughey wrote: »

Health and safety is by and large a crock of shyte IMO.

Never a truer word spoken.

The Real B-man

Ya would swear yas where filling a 747 lads! cmon even in the largest 4x4's its only gonna take a minute or two :pac:

Bandara

robtri wrote: »

welcome back from prison, windsock....
that is a great question, shame I have no idea why excpet, its Ireland, and the petrol companies won't invest money on technology like that, to ensure they maximise their profits here...

lol, in making that statement you are of course fully aware that most petrol companies in Ireland are announcing massive losses this year?

L1011

The latch mechanism is illegal for petrol but legal for diesel in Ireland - can't remember the act off hand but its been referenced here before. I've see the diesel catches in place the rare time.

There is no way, no how a petrol company CAN 'invest money on technology like that' for petrol pumps; as it is they often have to remove the catches from imported gear.

Bandara

Four reasons why these things were disabled

1. H&S go mental

2. The idiots who used them forgot that they had the pump into their car and after payign for the fuel they got back into the cars and drove away ripping the pumps out of the ground. H&S didn't like that and at 8 grand a pump either did the customer when it came out of their insurance or the station owner as they were out of commission for at least a day would could really put serious pressure on the business.

3. Not all cars have automatic stops in their tanks and the fuel would piss out all over the ground.

4. The idiots would set the catch and then not insert the nozzle far enough into the tank, they would then sit in their cars or go into pay whauile the nozzle falls out is lying on the ground and pouring highly flammable fuel over the place at a rate of 40 litres a minute.

I'm sure there are several more reason but these will do for starters.


If you took a minute to think about it you realise that the biggest fans of these devices are the petrol stations, instead of getting 10 and 20 euro sales most people would clip it and fill it. It was a pain in the ass for us when their use was stopped.

Hope this clears it up....

Bandara

The Real B-man wrote: »

Ya would swear yas where filling a 747 lads! cmon even in the largest 4x4's its only gonna take a minute or two :pac:

about 2 minutes, standard pumps do about 42 litres a minute. Even the slow ones do 35 litres a minute

oleras

Hammertime wrote: »

3. Not all cars have automatic stops in their tanks and the fuel would piss out all over the ground.

....

Huh ?

L1011

oleras wrote: »

Huh ?

There are cars where the pumps automatic cutoff doesn't work due to the design of the tank/filler on the car; I guess he means this...

CJhaughey

CJhaughey wrote: »

Hey Don't shoot the messenger, This came from the owner, he had previously had a few pumps with the catch and when I went in this morning to fill up at the high speed diesel pump the pin was missing and when I asked thats what he told me.
Health and safety is by and large a crock of shyte IMO.

Sorry, my comment wasn't directed at your post I was just ranting about heath and safety!

Farls

I fill up in Donegal mainfly, sometimes Cavan and most but not all stations I go to still have the catch at the pump that I can leave it to fill itself.

I seen these other pumps in Oz/NZ before and whilst they are good I also notice that if you fill yourself and go 1 cent over the price you have to pay for it! Around these parts you can put in 20.18 euro worth of diesel and fire in 20 euro to the shop and nobody says a thing!!