foaming petrol

[Austin]

filled up at Asda today and it must have taken about 10 minutes. The petrol just foamed up filled the filler neck and auto switched the pump.
Unless I did it really slowly and from above the filler it all just foamed up. Its happened before at Asda but nowhere else.

Anyone else get this? Any reasons?

[Rubberchicken]

You weren't in the car wash lane by any chance?

[Yeti]

filled up at Asda today and it must have taken about 10 minutes. The petrol just foamed up filled the filler neck and auto switched the pump.
Unless I did it really slowly and from above the filler it all just foamed up. Its happened before at Asda but nowhere else.

Anyone else get this? Any reasons?

Oooooooooooooooooohhhh yes!!! I thought I'd forgot about my experience of that. In brief I had the same problem so when it got to a fiver I stopped and went in to the check out (cue grunting spotty teenager and a woman surely one of south yorkshire's inbred finest!). I politely informed them that their pump was on the blink. They looked blankly and said 'no its not they were checked and calibrated last week' I thought to myself but said nothing 'how many litres does one of these do in a week?!?!'

Anyway I went back to the pump and continued cautiously to fill it. It got to something like £28 in my transalp which had only just gone onto reserve. As this equated to at the time approximately 30 litres I was quite astounded!! I went back to the checkout WITH my honda manual which was under my seat to explain and prove that my bike petrol tank was not a mysteriously flashing blue police box.

After about 5 minutes of pointing out the obvious, much to the amusement of the huge queue of customers behind me, I finally refused to pay more than the £15 (or there abouts) it normally took to fill off reserve. They made me fill out a non-payment document!! but I heard no more of it. The thing that got me was the eeeeeeeeerrrr can not compute attitude. The till and computer said it had pumped that much fuel so that was all they understood. At no point did they engage brain!!

Anyway back to the point, check the amount as the pump could be on the blink. Some just pump stupidly fast. Great if you are ready for it!! The BP in Darlington on Carmel RD is amazing!! Full in seconds!!

[Austin]

I put just over 18 litres into a near enough empty tank, so I think the pump was measuring OK. Other cars seemed to fill up OK as well. It was as the petrol hit the flap/bracket thing in the tank that it foamed up like whisked fairy liquid. I ought to have stopped at a fiver and gone somewhere else but at 98p a litre I was determined to get my money's worth.

[alpslapper]

. The thing that got me was the eeeeeeeeerrrr can not compute attitude. The till and computer said it had pumped that much fuel so that was all they understood. At no point did they engage brain!!

!!

Well to be fair to them you could have had a secret 15 litre tank hidden in the fairing, or a fuel cell on the back, or be filling up your mates car on overrun, or just plain old drinking it.

I mean, they're not to know are they

I love inbred logic - I once filled up the cg125 and got asked for 35 quid. No pump 2 I said, the one with the bike, 5 litres, 4 quid or whatever it was (it was a while ago now). No he sez, youre pump 4 and youve filled up for 35 quid.
I showed him the bike, Im in my bike gear, etc, but he's adamant I have to pay 35 quid. When I looked towards the bike again, there was nothing opposite - the car had driven off. So he was trying to get me to pay for the car. When I pointed this out he sez yeah but hes your friend - you drove intogether, so you have to pay.

I left 4 quid on the counter and walked out.

There was no point in wasting any more of his or my time !!!!!!!!

[YEN_POWELL]

I once filled up and they couldn't get anything to come up on the till at all. In the meantime, because I move my bike off the pump if there's a car waiting behind me, someone was at my pump using it so they couldn't read it off the pump. I made a joke along the lines of 'you have to let me have it free then, that's the law' and blow me they said okay!! Wish it had been my car instead of my bike.