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Rank: Member Joined: 6/18/2012 Posts: 235
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Magigi wrote:Name and shame the petrol stations that shortchange us. Shell at roysambu. last week fuel attendant stole my fuel cap, and replaced with a faulty one. there lot of mechanics around the place, so ready market for any car part. To be sure, alight every time you are fuelling1
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/26/2008 Posts: 2,097
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qooler wrote:Magigi wrote:Name and shame the petrol stations that shortchange us. Shell at roysambu. last week fuel attendant stole my fuel cap, and replaced with a faulty one. there lot of mechanics around the place, so ready market for any car part. To be sure, alight every time you are fuelling1 Now these ones are full of primitive energy, stealing from their very own customers, NKT!!! "Never regret, if its good, its wonderful. If its bad, its experience."
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 7/5/2010 Posts: 2,061 Location: Nairobi
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Impunity wrote:Njung'e wrote:Other than pump calibration,there are obvious figures which are easy to manipulate......so a gas station owner calls a Tech and asks him to manipulate 500,1000,1500,2000,2500,3000....The obvious figures.Anybody who attempts filling at this prices will not get the right quantity of fuel.How to beat the cheats out of their game????......SIMPLE.Always have some loose coins/notes with you and whenever you request for a re-fill,make sure the attendant understands.Ask,say for fuel of Kshs 1045...1736,2023,3007.....Two things will happen,the attendant will act surprised or will salute you.......after you have left.
My rocal pump station where I fuel 80% of the time uses manual/analog pumps and I bet this @guka skill may not work coz there is nothing digital to play with, its only gears and cams-rollers. I stand collected though.  Probably very true ....the Shell on Mbagathi way near the memorial hospital ...they have the mechanical pumps and it seems to give a little more mafuta than these other petrol stations with digital meters.
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/25/2012 Posts: 261
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Magigi wrote:Name and shame the petrol stations that shortchange us. Total petrol station on Lusaka road near the round about to South B (above Industrial Area Police station on the way to Uhuru highway). Last Thursday, I fueled my 1600 GLi car with ksh 1,000 in the morning when going to work and that fuel did not last meet my errands as compared to other times. As a norm, every time I fuel, I reset my mileage to start at zero and to this one, I did 67km until I was very sure the tank was very empty coz I drove long distance with red light and the gauge was way below the E sign.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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Impunity wrote:My rocal pump station where I fuel 80% of the time uses manual/analog pumps and I bet this @guka skill may not work coz there is nothing digital to play with, its only gears and cams-rollers. I stand collected though. On the contrary young man,it is far much easier to manipulate the digital metering pumps.Of course you wouldn't know since you have never seen the inside of a mechanical pump  ....No need to be collected.Ignorance is bliss Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/17/2008 Posts: 23,365 Location: Nairobi
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Njung'e wrote:Impunity wrote:My rocal pump station where I fuel 80% of the time uses manual/analog pumps and I bet this @guka skill may not work coz there is nothing digital to play with, its only gears and cams-rollers. I stand collected though. On the contrary young man, it is far much easier to manipulate the digital metering pumps.Of course you wouldn't know since you have never seen the inside of a mechanical pump ....No need to be collected.Ignorance is bliss Guka, you missed impunity's point here, just like the Koreans and their primitive energy advert...lol!!! ..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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@Mcreggae, Blame it on old age...lol....and in my case it could be primitivity but where is the energy  Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 4/30/2008 Posts: 6,029
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mdudu wrote:mawinder[color=red wrote:]I own a gas station and I can tell u for sure to survive in the business some of us calibrate our pumps to dispense 90% of the fuel bought leaving us with proper margins[/color].Our pump attendants do steal from customers at times.for instance if the previous buyer purchased fuel worth 800 and u want 2000 worth of fuel u get 1200 worth of fuel coz they will simply keep the pump running.as for kebs they are taken care of well.
Now I understand why there was hate at first sight between you and @ Tony Stark. it is mostly the independent stations not me.try going there with a jug measuring exactly 1 litre and see if they will sell you fuel in that jug.
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/17/2006 Posts: 133
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Is this common in some 'brand' of stations-probably due to lax controls, or is it random?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,328 Location: Masada
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McReggae wrote:Njung'e wrote:Impunity wrote:My rocal pump station where I fuel 80% of the time uses manual/analog pumps and I bet this @guka skill may not work coz there is nothing digital to play with, its only gears and cams-rollers. I stand collected though. On the contrary young man, it is far much easier to manipulate the digital metering pumps.Of course you wouldn't know since you have never seen the inside of a mechanical pump ....No need to be collected.Ignorance is bliss Guka, you missed impunity's point here, just like the Koreans and their primitive energy advert...lol!!! Guy heaping madaharau to people yet he has a brain the size of a pea. If I didn't know the inside of a pump I would not have even mentioned the worn cam! Do you even know cam? Probably you think of it in terms of chots you usually get at Sabina-Joy. NKT!!!  Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 1/9/2009 Posts: 1,262
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In some cases the figures on the display board do not tally with the settings on the pump
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/9/2008 Posts: 5,389
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 6/2/2011 Posts: 42 Location: Kwa Nyumba
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Njung'e wrote:Other than pump calibration,there are obvious figures which are easy to manipulate......so a gas station owner calls a Tech and asks him to manipulate 500,1000,1500,2000,2500,3000....The obvious figures.Anybody who attempts filling at this prices will not get the right quantity of fuel.How to beat the cheats out of their game????......SIMPLE.Always have some loose coins/notes with you and whenever you request for a re-fill,make sure the attendant understands.Ask,say for fuel of Kshs 1045...1736,2023,3007.....Two things will happen,the attendant will act surprised or will salute you.......after you have left.
  no wonder my suspicion on dec 20th when i filled tank @ National Haile Sellasie to take on 500+km drive..i didnt understand what the problem with my tank was bt s'thing was not right. I trust NOC sana bt am thinkin otherwise for insight. Am in love w/ Wazua. 'Hope' is not a strategy. Take Action!
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/4/2007 Posts: 1,162
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Beware when you check into a petrol station and the guys jump at you asking in haste mbele iko poa? fungua tuangalie and cleaning the windscreen while u have said weka 1000/= If u don't pay attention to the guy dispensing the fuel, you may get conned nicely.
I had a cousin petrol attendant who told me how they do it. But the worst fuel theft happens to company fueled vehicles using vouchers, cards and the like.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/26/2008 Posts: 2,097
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majimaji wrote:
Beware when you check into a petrol station and the guys jump at you asking in haste mbele iko poa? fungua tuangalie and cleaning the windscreen while u have said weka 1000/= If u don't pay attention to the guy dispensing the fuel, you may get conned nicely.
I had a cousin petrol attendant who told me how they do it. But the worst fuel theft happens to company fueled vehicles using vouchers, cards and the like.
Company drivers collude with the attendants; they will be told "fuel for me Ksh 4000 but key in 6,500. Chukua mia tano na unipe 2K". The next car to fuel at 2500 completes the transaction (2K paid to driver gets refunded and 500/= for the tip available to attendant) "Never regret, if its good, its wonderful. If its bad, its experience."
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