just stretch the hose over your sodding car

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I don't fill the car with fuel that often as it's mainly just used for around time.

Every time I go to the petrol station the access is blocked by people queuing for a pump on the "correct" side of their car.

If I can stretch the hose over my mum-bus people carrier, you can stretch it over your ford fiesta.

Petrol station etiquette should definitely be on the driving test.

I queue and also don’t care what you think. I have no intention of....struggling to read pump

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. That has to be the worst excuse on the thread. I don't think anyone will beat that.

They have improved the design of pumps so that they are now long enough to stretch around the other side of the car. I wonder why they implemented this?

If you want to queue for your pump of choice then fine. However you are the delay in the process and that has a knock on effect.

It's like demanding to only use a network cable to access the internet when wifi is an improved and more efficient option.

The hose may reach round the other side, but I am not then tall enough to see how much fuel I have put in, do wait for a pump on the right side. Don't think I have ever stopped anyone else getting to the pump when doing this either.

Me:
Pull up into rear space as car in front is occupying front space.
Fill up car. Go in to pay.
Join long queue just as far in front of me drives off.
By the.time I return to the car there is a car behind me and I can't look them in the eye as I feel they are missed off at me foraging the space in front even though it isn't my fault.

I can't believe some of the excuses for not stretching them across 😂

I can't believe all these people struggling, scratching cars etc. I have never been in a petrol station where the pump doesn't reach. You don't need to be strong and its not even remotely hard. Just pull your car quite a way forward and you can reach, pull, squeeze and see!

I spend a lot of time and money looking after my car and making sure it looks as good as possible I have no wish to damage the paintwork and reduce its value by dragging a dirty heavy hose across the paintwork. However if you are happy to then that's your choice.

But they're made of rubber? Rubber won't scratch a card paint work ??!?

I stretch it round the back of the car not over the top. You park at a strategic angle and all fine!

Have absolutely no idea what the laws are in the UK but here it is not legal to stretch the hose over the car.

Honestly. Sometimes I think people search for things to get twisted about.

you don't need to stretch the hose over the car. just pull in slightly forward of the pump and it will reach behind. I have been doing this for years with various cars and have nver yet had a hose which doesnt reach.

@MiniCooperLover the hoses tend to pick up grit and crap and that can scratch the paint.

I always fuel on the petrol cap side, never been an issue as there are always people fuelling and waiting to fuel, also at petrol cap side. The trouble makers are those using the pay at pump who then go on to pay at the till, after a browse of the shop before using the toilet. They then get back into the car, adjust all child seats/ child blinds, ensure every one has snacks before they pop off to use the forecourt cash point.

Far too many people in this thread have 'I'll do what I like, and sod everyone else' attitudes.

As a comparison, imagine you're queuing in a supermarket. There's a queue, that's fine, you expected that. The person at the front of the queue, is not in any particular hurry. They're chatting, dilly-daddyling. You end up queuing for ten mins, when it could have been five. They've held the entire queue up because they weren't in a hurry.

It's irritating isn't it? Ok, not enough to be fuming about, but nevertheless, irritating.

I have never been in a petrol station where the pump doesn't reach.

Well they certainly don’t at my local petrol station.

Quite a few around me don’t stretch. Only a few advertise extra long hose to use both sides. Brand new esso has particularly short hose.

All the non-stretchers are free to carry on wasting their time.

But don’t block me from getting to free pumps as you’re doing it.

Ahhh bless all those people shouldn’t get in your way, now should they? Many of yhrm have stated they have some form of disability, aren’t tall enough or don’t have the strength. Perhaps it would just be easier to ban them all seeing as you’re speshul.

SweetPes
That’s interesting a new / refitted Essie service station doesn’t have long enough hoses. I said about the service station I went to recently not stretching. It was a refitted Asda.

Clearly some on this thread have decided just because they haven’t come across this phenomenon it doesn’t exist.

Goady, twatty thread.

The petrol stations near me have signs on the pumps saying not to do this. And at one the attendants come on the tannoy and tell you off for doing this. So I just presumed it was something you're not supposed to do? It may be that the pumps are older in my outdated town?

You don't have to stretch the pump OVER your car. I just park more forward, then the hose is behind the car. Easy peasy to then use.

Mine only reach at the Sainsbury’s all other stations don’t reach.

I had a small van which I couldn't see over to fill up from the other side, now I have a car and I thought all pumps reached both sides but nope! So go to fill up and the hose doesn't reach so block that pump waiting for one in front and across or go out and back in and queue again, aaarghh!

Yeah I have trouble just using the normal pumps if it's particularly stiff,
not everyone has the arm strength to do this and I also thought most of them don't actually stretch across

Also if you only fill up occasionally and not every week why not go at a really really quiet time to use the petrol station as they are not usually busy midweek during work hours

Sorry but I can't physically wrestle/lift/manoeuvre the hose. I would if I could.

Due to an ongoing previously operated on shoulder problem.

And I've heard an employee shouting at someone not to do it over a tannoy as well.