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Article #59Re: OT: Cross Border Shopping, Deals and not so good deals.
From: sharx35
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:12
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:12
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"Richard Bonner" <ak621@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message news:feqi8h$kja$5@Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca... > sharx35 (sharx35@hotmail.com) wrote: > : > As for dragging the hose it can leave a rubber streak on the paint > : > job of the vehicle and in my experience it increases the chance of > : > spilling gasoline on the vehicle. > > : Well, my vehicle is WHITE and NEVER any marks. I have never spilled any > fuel that way because the fuel : only flows when *I* pull the trigger on > the control....nothing to do with the routing of the hose. One : shouldn't > Start filling until the nozzle is all in and should remove the nozzle > until trigger is off. : (sigh) > > *** This is true. However nozzles will contain some residual fuel and > that may leak onto the finish. > > Also, if the pump is not an overhead type, the hose will get dragged > across the car's trunk unless it is long enough to pass behind the > vehicle. > > Richard What fucking idiots are we dealing with here? One pulls the hose out of the pump, lifting it at the same time. WHen it is fully extended, over the vehicle, one lowers it as one inserts the nozzle into the filler tube. There is NO DRAGGING the hose over anything. I have never in almost 50 years of driving and filling up EVER got ANY marks from hose.
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