How much time do you spend at the gas station?

[DaveinOlyWA]

filled up SPM. did it at 1.30 pm on a tuesday. did not have to wait in line. pulled right up. had one bar left. took 6 mins 5 seconds. Costco Self serve

[TheForce]

Originally Posted by DaveinOlyWA

filled up SPM. did it at 1.30 pm on a tuesday. did not have to wait in line. pulled right up. had one bar left. took 6 mins 5 seconds. Costco Self serve

How many miles on that tank?

[DaveinOlyWA]

its in sig. 382 only had one bar left. put in over 9 gallons

[TheForce]

OK I see it now. I guess I should pay more attention to signatures.

[daniel]

Originally Posted by TheForce

If you cant give me that info dont post.

Boy, that's just to tempting to pass up. Mostly I drive the Xebra these days. It spends exactly zero minutes and zero seconds on gas station property. It "fills up" sitting in my garage plugged into the wall, but takes no gas at all to fill. :smug: (There's no smiley for "smug"!!! )

P.S. Hint: You could have said "please."

[eaglesight333]

I remembered this week when I filled up. Here is what my results were.

Car: 2010 Prius III

Tank Mileage: 502

was on 1 Pip

No line at pump

Did use lowest pump setting with 87 Octane

Time: 8min*

* the time was accidently long, I did start stop watch when I pulled into station. But I tried to start the pump too early, so I probably lost a minute of nothing happening, because I went back to car to start inputting info into Gas Buddy app. Then receipt didnt print, so I had to go in for a copy.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

[TheForce]

Thanks DaveinOlyWA and eaglesight333 for your data.

Daniel I have updated my first post to include "please". Also this data I'm trying to get will be used just to see how much time is wasted at the gas station versus plugging in at home. If you could I would like to know exactly how long it takes you to unplug and plug in every day. I'm talking about "out of your way time". For instance if you did not mess with a plug like a regular gas car you would just get in and drive off. What I would like is how much time is spent walking over to the plug and plugging it in or unplugging it. As an example it takes me about 3 seconds to either unplug and hang up the cord or get the cord and plug it in. This would be about 6 seconds wasted per day if I charge 1 time per day.

[DaveinOlyWA]

okie dokie...was gonna say, its only fair that we also log "plug in time" which is MUCH higher in my case.

now, i have to qualify the statement and this is something i have tracked a long time.

at home, plug in time is so short that i dont time it, so i will say, 10-15 seconds. (cord sits on bench right at garage door, plugged into my Kill-A-Watt.

but i also plug in at work (they pay me so little for my time i need to get as much fringe benefits out of them as i possibly can!!). now this takes a lot more time.

i have to get out, open hatch, plug plug out, plug into car, plug into socket, toss rug over it (the cord runs across sidewalk and this is safety committee requirement which i am more than willing to comply with to get my dime's worth of electricity for FREE!!)

so, to be fair, i use average "rain time" since the area is not covered and not near a door (ya, they make me work for my freebies!!)

so it all takes about 55 seconds to plug in, 25 seconds to unplug. total time 80 seconds @ 4 days a week. that is

5 minutes 20 seconds at work. another estimated 2 minutes at home for 7 minutes and 20 seconds per week.

now, my 2010 Pri only takes 5-7 minute per fill up and fill up about 3 weeks apart. so the Zenn takes 3X more time to "gas up".

[TonyPSchaefer]

I couldn't have planned it any better. Since my screen goes black after 30 seconds, there was no way of knowing what it would be until I was cruising to the exit and reactivated the screen.

[TonyPSchaefer]

Second recorded visit. This time, I had to walk into the station and get the reciept that failed to print at the pump.

It's been two weeks between visits. I was a week late posting the last one.