How much time do you spend at the gas station?

I never willingly do any of those, ever,

 

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

Tom

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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."

 

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.

 

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".