It is not as if ALL outlets do it. At least in Delhi (surely this would be true for other cities as well) people who are regulars and who take interest in ensuring that they do not get taken for a ride while buying petrol, have 'marked' reliable petrol pumps and fill their vehicles from only these places. I for one usually plan my trips in such a way that I am near a reliable pump when I need to fill my bike / car. Of course this is not always possible, and then one has to suffer the consequences.
In terms of the companies, in my experience, HP and Bharat Petroleum bunks are better than others, and surely better than IBP and IndianOil (with IndianOil being the worst). In Delhi AFAIK, we do not have Shell outlets since many years. Regarding taking print off the machines - these days that is becoming quite the norm. However, that does not guarantee the quality or quantity of the fuel that you get. For quantity, one thing I find reliable is the small 'odometer' kind of meter that is always there on every fuel dispensing machine. This is a small 'master measure' of the fuel that a particular machine dispenses during the day. Reading in this meter is always accurate, as the owner of the bunk will come in the evening and check from this meter, as to how much petrol has been sold during the day. Even the company wala uses this meter to caculate the total sales, besides the huge dipstick that is inserted into the underground fuel tanks. However, to be able to see it, you have to get out of your car / move closer to the petrol dispensing machine to be able to see it if you are on a bike. That meter has readings in thousands. Something like '342678'. So if the machine has supposedly dispensed 10 litres to you, the master measure should read as '342688'. If it is displaying less, it means that that many less litres of petrol have gone into your vehicle! Do note however, that most often these metres do not display litres in fractions. Hence if you / person before you fills in fractions, the final figure will not necessarily tally. If you fill 8.4 litres, the master meter will show 8 litres only. So that level of apparant inacuracy has to be pardoned, as it is not inacuracy - just display of whole numbers rather than fractions. If the machine operator sees that you are taking note of the master meter, he will not cheat you in any case! However, the above method is of no use to check for adulteration of fuel! Ciao // Rajeev. George Bernard Shaw - "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 16:36, Bijesh Krishnadas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Rajeev Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > why confidential? They need to be exposed, so that others dont suffer! > > > > Unfortunately, it is not restricted to one brand or one location. > Every single petrol outlet tries this on customers. > Except maybe Shell (At least it is not blatant) cos they always print > the bill off the pump. > > ------------------------------------ > > __The Bajaj Pulsar User Group__ > www.bajajpulsar.org > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
