Do you guys (and gals) shut down while fueling up?
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Well, that's another thing. My stock truck is vocal enough to make it hard to hold a conversation outside of it; if you have an even louder truck, then letting it shake the entire gas station overhang for 10 minutes while people are trying to talk on cell phones and eat their Twinkies is just rude and inconsiderate.
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Well, that's another thing. My stock truck is vocal enough to make it hard to hold a conversation outside of it; if you have an even louder truck, then letting it shake the entire gas station overhang for 10 minutes while people are trying to talk on cell phones and eat their Twinkies is just rude and inconsiderate.
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I shut it down now, when I first got it I left it run, not sure why I changed. But when I leave it running I just lock the doors with the keyless entry remote, I keep the remote on a seperate key chain for just such occasions.
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I leave it run and hit the quick trip button on the remote starter if I have to leave the truck. I've never been asked to shut it down... yet.
I've learned to hate stations without dedicated diesel pumps. Why is it there can be only 1 one car in the station and it's always getting gas at the gas/diesel pump? Must be my luck!
I've learned to hate stations without dedicated diesel pumps. Why is it there can be only 1 one car in the station and it's always getting gas at the gas/diesel pump? Must be my luck!
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I leave it run and hit the quick trip button on the remote starter if I have to leave the truck. I've never been asked to shut it down... yet.
I've learned to hate stations without dedicated diesel pumps. Why is it there can be only 1 one car in the station and it's always getting gas at the gas/diesel pump? Must be my luck!
I've learned to hate stations without dedicated diesel pumps. Why is it there can be only 1 one car in the station and it's always getting gas at the gas/diesel pump? Must be my luck!
I hear ya Clack, that happens to me all the time. One guy's car was in front of it and he was not. So I thought he's in paying, so I sat there waiting. He came out of the quick sack/wendy's/walgreens/gas station towards his car. Set all his goods on the roof, looked at me and pulled the pump handle out, unscrewed the cap and started pumping!!! I thought, 5 rows of gas pumps and just two diesel pumps and I pick this station at this point in time.... I left and went elsewhere.
Don't usually shut mine off, leave kids in truck, have them lock doors and unlock for me only(that's around my microbe of a town) otherwise I'm swiping my card, slap in some stanadyne, nozzle 20 ish gallons and I'm gone. When I come off the road I can do this and when I'm just about done filling up is when my pyro says, "ok, I'm cool enough now".
Air to fuel ratio on a diesel is 80-90/1 and 25/1 loaded, at least that's what I heard at a GM school. Gassers, 14.5/1......and diesels are the bad guys??
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Connecticut...
Almost forgot to look up Connecticut's law on pumping with the motor running. As I thought, its a no no here.
Sec. 14-260. Filling tanks. Placing gasoline or other fuel in the tank of any vehicle while the engine of such vehicle is running shall be an infraction.
That will Cost you $93.00....
Thankfully I don't know of too many cities and towns around here that would take the time to enforce such a statute. But might have to look out for the State Troopers and Dept of Motor Vehicle Officers......
Sec. 14-260. Filling tanks. Placing gasoline or other fuel in the tank of any vehicle while the engine of such vehicle is running shall be an infraction.
That will Cost you $93.00....
Thankfully I don't know of too many cities and towns around here that would take the time to enforce such a statute. But might have to look out for the State Troopers and Dept of Motor Vehicle Officers......
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I try to only use pay at the pump Diesel.....Usually Walmart. The truck runs and Im standing by it. If for some reason I have to go inside the store then I kill it if im by myself.
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Almost forgot to look up Connecticut's law on pumping with the motor running. As I thought, its a no no here.
Sec. 14-260. Filling tanks. Placing gasoline or other fuel in the tank of any vehicle while the engine of such vehicle is running shall be an infraction.
That will Cost you $93.00....
Thankfully I don't know of too many cities and towns around here that would take the time to enforce such a statute. But might have to look out for the State Troopers and Dept of Motor Vehicle Officers......
Sec. 14-260. Filling tanks. Placing gasoline or other fuel in the tank of any vehicle while the engine of such vehicle is running shall be an infraction.
That will Cost you $93.00....
Thankfully I don't know of too many cities and towns around here that would take the time to enforce such a statute. But might have to look out for the State Troopers and Dept of Motor Vehicle Officers......
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If you notice people sitting in heavy traffic that shut their car off, they burn more fuel cranking back up that leaving it idling. I am pretty sure it is about the same with diesels. It takes a good bit of fuel to get a vehicle started as compared to letting it idle for a bit.
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I too do not beleive it takes a mother-load of fuel to start a vehicle. Let me re-phrase that. Most vehicles. The starter turns it over, you need somewhere near idle fuel or a skosh more, but that's it. If anything, its just extra wear on the starter.
The exception to this is the 6.0h no. I likely requires lots of fuel, starter wear and battery wear to actually bring one of those things to life.
The exception to this is the 6.0h no. I likely requires lots of fuel, starter wear and battery wear to actually bring one of those things to life.