In recent years, oil prices have been at a high level, which makes everyone's travel costs high, and the fundamental reason for high oil prices is that international oil prices continue to be at a high level, which is understandable.
But what makes everyone incomprehensible is that in the context of oil prices, some gas stations may still use some tricks and tricks to deceive customers by changing the data, which is the most hateful.
Recently, a car owner encountered a bizarre thing.
On April 19, a netizen in Changchun, Jilin Province, posted a video online in which he said he drove a Volkswagen Magotan to a local CNOOC gas station to refuel, and the fuel gauge showed two bars before refueling.
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But after filling up, he was surprised to find that the fuel gauge showed that he had filled 67 liters of gasoline!
That's where the problem comes in.
The official fuel tank volume of Volkswagen Magotan is 66 liters, according to the fuel gauge there are still two grids left to calculate, the oil in the fuel tank is at least 8~10 liters, and later the gas station added 67 liters of gasoline to him, which means that the entire fuel tank of Volkswagen Magotan can hold a gasoline capacity between 75 liters and 77 liters, which is between 9 liters and 11 liters more than the official volume.
Under normal circumstances, the actual capacity of the fuel tank is more than the safe capacity, but no matter how much it is, it will basically not exceed 5 liters.
Based on the 66-liter fuel tank volume of Volkswagen Magotan to calculate, adding to the dead can only fill about 71 liters of oil at most.
Besides, it is impossible to fully fill up when refueling at the gas station, and there will definitely be a certain amount of space, so the actual fuel volume will basically not exceed 66 liters.
Judging from the actual situation reported by some Volkswagen Magotan owners, the final actual refueling capacity is about 63 liters after the fuel is consumed.
Therefore, the owner of Jilin was not calm at all after seeing this refueling volume, and he suspected that there was a problem with the metering of the oil dispenser on the spot.
However, the employees of the gas station are confident that the fuel dispenser has been inspected and qualified by the relevant departments, and all the measurements are accurate, and there can be no problems.
Seeing that the argument with the gas station employee was fruitless, the owner decided to call the police, but when the owner took out the phone to call the police, a funny scene appeared again.
I saw that the employees of this gas station began to open the lid of the fuel dispenser to check one by one, and not only the machine that Volkswagen Magotan refueled to check, but also opened other machines one by one to check.
In this regard, the owner of Volkswagen Magotan questioned why he did not start to inspect until he arrived at this part, and why did he not check it at other times?
The gas station has not responded to this at present, but I believe that the eyes of netizens are bright, there must be a problem here, and the gas station is undoubtedly a place without three hundred taels of silver.
In fact, in recent years, it is not uncommon for gas stations to use their hands and feet on fuel dispensers to cause errors in measurement, and there are problems in many places.
For example, in March 2023, when the market supervision department of Yubei District, Chongqing conducted a routine inspection of a gas station, it found that there was a special software on the computer of the gas station.
After the regulatory department opened the software, it was found that the software could control the amount of oil produced by the fuel dispenser, and if you want to make the oil more and more, if you want to make the oil less, it will become less; the market supervision department immediately realized that the problem was wrong, and immediately contacted the professional department to inspect the fuel dispenser, and found that there were problems with some equipment such as the motherboard inside, and then the market supervision department immediately seized and sent it to a third party for testing, and finally found that the motherboard in the fuel dispenser was able to modify the refueling data.
Later, after being questioned by the regulatory department, the gas station admitted that it was they who hired some people in the society to modify the motherboard program of the fuel dispenser and install software that could cheat on the computer, and through this illegal operation, they obtained huge profits.
Similar to this kind of violations of laws and regulations in the country is not uncommon, every year in many parts of the country have found that some gas stations have violated laws and regulations, their usual practice is to do something to the main board of the fuel dispenser and then control the amount of inorganic refueling through software, but this method is relatively hidden, many car owners do not pay attention to do not find, so they have a chance.
However, seeing this, many netizens still have a question.
We all know that the fuel dispenser is a very sensitive equipment, which is related to the vital interests of the majority of car owners, so the mainland is very strict in the supervision of the fuel dispenser. Under normal circumstances, every 6 months, the market supervision department and the measurement department will inspect each fuel dispenser at the gas station, and only after passing the inspection can it be used normally.
For the inspection of qualified fuel dispensers, the regulatory authorities will put lead seals on the computer motherboard, flow device and encoder of the fuel dispenser, which will be invalid once these seals are torn off, which can effectively prevent the gas station from doing anything to the fuel dispenser.
However, in reality, there are still some gas stations that take risks, they collude with some people in the society and form a counterfeiting industry chain, from motherboard changes, to software settings, to seal fraud.
So how can we put an end to the occurrence of these behaviors? This is not a problem that netizens need to pay attention to, the only thing everyone can do is to pay more attention when going to refuel.