Premature gas nozzle shut off anecdote

does the rubber compress on the short nozzle to make it the same length? overall, they look similar with less metal showing n the short one

 

Sometimes you can just encounter one dodgy filler nozzle, too, whatever its type. Did you try another pump at the same station?

 

Sometimes it's a fuel pressure issue... As in if every pump is pumping gas into a vehicle the pressure will be lower and sensor won't shut off prematurely. But go back to same station late at night when no one else is pumping and it might shut off often because the fuel pressure is way higher, making the sensor think your tank is full before it really is. I've found this is most common at new gas stations, especially ones in California.

 

I ran into this problem at a local Costco that had a strange filler nozzle of a design that I’d never seen before. Was a very short tube without bellows. Cut off almost immediately even though tank was down to two blips. Eventually I worked on it and it filled normally and too 9 gallons. Never had this problem before anywhere else.

 

I have run into that situation a few places, and it seems not related to the nozzle design. The solution for me has been to pump gas as slowly as possible so it doesn’t cut off.

 

I run into a similar issue with my GT3. I find that filling with the handle inverted (handle up vs down) generally seems to fix the issue. Not sure what the culprit actually is though.

 

That didn’t work for me. Slow or fast was still a problem. It was an odd nozzle design. Never saw it before. Had to hold it in place to get it to work. A real PiTA.