How much time do you spend at the gas station?

[TheForce]

I would like to get some data from as many people as possible. It will be about another two months or more before I get to the gas station to time how long I spend there so I need your help.

Here is what I want from you.


I want you to use a stop watch. Start it as soon as you enter the gas station property.

Pump your gas

As soon as your car leaves the gas station property stop the stop watch.


Come back here and tell me.....

Total time spent at the gas station.
total miles on that tank.


If you cant give me that info please dont post.

[JimboPalmer]

Originally Posted by TheForce

You must be on 1 pip or 1 flashing pip.

You want a receipt.

Pump your gas on the low setting.

I never willingly do any of those, ever,

[qbee42]

I never willingly run it down to a single pip, so count me out.

Tom

[DaveinOlyWA]

well well, i have actually been doing most of that already, at least for past 2 fillups on each car. only thing is, both times the SPM was filled it had at least 2 bars or more on it, but i dont drive it and no matter how many times i tell someone that it can go at least another 150 miles, it does no good.

but, the problem is the wait. the wait on the SPM is usually 6-10 minutes more simply because it gets gas usually after work during the week when lines are much longer.

now for the 2010, i usually fill it up tuesday morning. times on it were 5.48 and 8.01 and i always run the pump as fast as it will go up to about 2 gallons where i think i will be full.

for the SPM it was 12.15 and 17.51. now i always get gas at Costco and always pay by CC. because i use my Costco Credit Card, i save probably 20-30 seconds on the pay time since Costco requires two swipes one for membership card (my Costco CC doubles for that) and one for the CC used to pay

[BAllanJ]

I need to add to my list of TLAs.... What is an SPM?

[mindmachine]

Originally Posted by TheForce

I would like to get some data from as many people as possible. It will be about another two months or more before I get to the gas station to time how long I spend there so I need your help.

Here is what I want from you.

You must be on 1 pip or 1 flashing pip.

I want you to use a stop watch. Start it as soon as you enter the gas station property.

Pull up to the pump.

Pay by credit card.

You want a receipt.

Select your grade

Pump your gas on the low setting.

Wait for the first click and stop pumping. Thats if you get a full tank first try.

Get your receipt

When you get back in the car do your logging/resetting of MFD, OD, etc..

As soon as your car leaves the gas station property stop the stop watch.


Come back here and tell me.....

Total time spent at the gas station.
total miles on that tank.


If you don't normally follow that routine please say so in your post.

1.I don't believe in running my tank that low.

My apologies, I was reading another post knocking the Gen 3 prior to reading your post and was a out of line here saying that. I am somewhat frustrated at this point as I have been waiting on mine for months. I will soon be going into my 5th month waiting.

Anyway thats no excuse and I am sorry for my nasty post.

[TheForce]

Its amazing how a topic gets so much bad stuff these days.

OK I was just trying to get an estimate on how much time I spent at the gas station using all those steps.

All I want from you now is...

I want you to use a stop watch. Start it as soon as you enter the gas station property.

Pump your gas

As soon as your car leaves the gas station property stop the stop watch.

Come back here and tell me.....

Total time spent at the gas station.
total miles on that tank.


If you cant give me that info dont post.

[TonyPSchaefer]

Originally Posted by TheForce

Its amazing how a topic gets so much bad stuff these days.

If you cant give me that info dont post.

I agree, Jay.

It's not like your asking for opinions, just data. It'll be a week or more but I'll try to remember to run the stopwatch.

[mindmachine]

Originally Posted by TheForce

Its amazing how a topic gets so much bad stuff these days.

OK I was just trying to get an estimate on how much time I spent at the gas station using all those steps.

All I want from you now is...

I want you to use a stop watch. Start it as soon as you enter the gas station property.

Pump your gas

As soon as your car leaves the gas station property stop the stop watch.

Come back here and tell me.....

Total time spent at the gas station.
total miles on that tank.


If you cant give me that info dont post.

My apologies, I was reading another post knocking the Gen 3 prior to reading your post and am upset by that and was a out of line here saying what I said. I also am somewhat frustrated at this point as I have been waiting on my Gen 3 Pk IV for almost 4 months. I will soon be going into my 5th month waiting.

Anyway thats no excuse and I am sorry for my nasty post.

[DaveinOlyWA]

Originally Posted by BAllanJ

I need to add to my list of TLAs.... What is an SPM?

its not surprising that you would not know that since the greenest gas guzzler on the planet no longer comes in green...

SPM is silver pine mica. a color available to version 2 of the gen 2 Prius. it replaced the color of my first Pri the tidelands pearl which could be construed as greenish in the right kind of light.