Tips on filling your vehicles

Tips on filling your vehicles

Since everyone is suffering from the demonic patrol price, I've just received this e-mail about making the patrol you paid worth its price and so I'm sharing with you all here. Enjoy!

Only buy or fill up your car in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold - Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground, the denser the fuel, when it gets warmer petrol expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening would means that your liter is not exactly a liter. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the petrol, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products play an important role. A single degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.

When you're filling up, do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode - If you look, you will see that the trigger has 3 stages: slow, middle, and fast. In slow mode, you should be pumping on low speed, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created, while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.

Fill up when your tank is half full - The reason for this is, the more fuel you have in your tank, the less air occupying its empty space. Petrol evaporates faster than you can imagine. Petroleum storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the petrol and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, every loaded truck is temperature compensated, so that every liter is actually the exact amount.

If there is a fuel truck pumping into the storage tanks, do not fill up - Most likely the petrol/diesel is being stirred up as the fuel is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.

Hope, this will help you get the maximum value for your money. Do share these tips with others!