well this meter tampering is nothing new in Pakitan. In the last 22 years I have owned a car with a fuel tank capacity of 76 liters +,- 2 liters, so all in all about 78 liters or lets say 80 liters all in all.
OK GUYS I FOUND THSES CASH MEMOS AND HERE THEY COME ONE BY ONE.
Butt now I am going to disclose what I would call robery in broad daylight. I have been charged for having filled upto 120 liters as well. Now it usually varies from gas station to gas station butt most of them in Islamabad have filled it up with at least 87 liter and a max of 97 liters. I am not joking but I do have various reciepts of different gas stations to accompany my statement and I´ll try to put them here onto the screen. Now the worst experince was the one at Lahore Ravi Road PSO gas station who had pumped 120 liters into my car back in 1989 but at that time fuel prices were not as made so we never felt that bad butt with the fuel prices of today we are being robbed twice ...one buying expensive fuel and second time paying more for less amount fuel actually bought.
The best experince I have ever had was at a gas station on the round about just before the old Lahore Airport.
Now driving towards the airport it lies on the left side of the roundabout. According to the workers at the gas station it belongs to some Retired General......., this was an experiance of its own kind where the gas station actually pumped less gas than ever in my life of owning the same car for so many years.
Its an incident not to be forgotten as it was early morning and I was on my way to the airport to drop a friend who was leaving for europe. Suddenly at about the round-about before the airport the engine went dead because there was no more fuel in the car and I made a quick decession to let it roll into the gas station which was infact just meters away from where we were, there were no other cars so I let the car roll upto one of the pumps and parked it an let the guys pump gas into it. Now they filled and filled it upto the neck untill it cou7ld not take any more and the meter showed only 76 liters ...it was a surprise fo me to know that it was full and then I checked it myself by letting the guy fill more fuel untill it started flowwing out of the neck ..now we were to a total of 77.2 liters and no more.
Now this incident is unique as this is the only time when I have run out of gas and brought the car to a gas station with and empty totally empty tank. All the other times there was still fuel in the car and I have allways driven the car in for a refill. That means when you drive in there is still fuel in the tank and the capacity of refuelling would be less.
So after the guy pumped only 77.2 liters I said to him " your meter is wrong, and not wrong because you have cheated me butt because you hve pumped less fuel than normal. At this point the guy told me that Sir this station belong to General Sahib and he checks it everyday and runs it himself. I would have loved to salute him but he was not there. Good job ...there are many honest people among us and may they be an example for the others.
Now not so far back in Islamabad I have been charged for fuel more than my car tank´s capacity both at SHELL and CALTEX and offcourse PSO.
I´LL TRY TO FIND THESE RECIEPTS AND SCAN THEM HERE TO THE TOPIC.
OK THIS FIRST ONE AS YOU CAN SEE THE DETAILS THEY HAVE PUMPED 89.1 LITERS AND MIND YOU GUYS I WAS STILL DRIVING THE CAR AND NOT TOWING IT THERE MUST HAVE BEEN ATLEAST 10 TO 15 LITERS IN THE TANK...THE RESERVÉ LIGHT TURNS ON AT 15 LITERS.
i HOPE THE PEOPLE AT MEHER HAVE A GOOD LOOK AT THIS AND IF ANYONE FROM SHELL ......HAVE AN EXTRA GOOD LOOK....
AFTER TANKING AND COLLECTING THE CASH MEMO AS THE CALL IT I DID HAVE A WORD WITH THE MANAGER BUTT HE WAS LEAST BOTHERED.
BUTT LITTLE DID HE KNOW THAT THIS IS GOING ON LINE AND HE MIGHT HAVE TO FIX THOSE METERS..........
THIS SECOND ONE I STILL HAD A LOT OF FUEL AS THE RESERVE LIGHT DID NOT TURN ON AS YET. mIND YOU i WAS STILL DRIVING AND THE TANK CAPACITY IS 76 LITERS + - 2 ....
I HOPE YOU GUYS AT KOSAR TAKE A LOOK AT THIS....
AND THIS ONE I HAD INFACT A QUARTER OF A TANK STILL BUTT I WAS ON MY WAY TO BURBAN SO I THAUGHT OF FILLING THE CAR UP FOR PEACE OF MIND.
I WISH I HAD A CASH MEMO OF THIS PSO RAVI ROAD WHERE THEY HAD PUMPED 120 LITERS, BUTT AFTER SO MANY YEARS ITS NOT POSSIBLE FO ME TO HAVE SAVED IT.
MIND YOU GUYS I DO NOT GET THSES REFUNDED BY ANY COMPANY BUTT HAPPEN TO OBTAIN THEM JUST FOR THE RECORD THAT I WAS CHEATED UPON.
NOW THIS IS ONLY POSSIBLE IF YOU FILL YOUR TANK UP WITH A FULL TANK AND YOU HAVE AN IDEA OF HOW MUCH IS THE CAPACITY OF YOU CAR AND HOW MUCH YOU HAVE LEFT OVER WHEN THE LIGHT TURNS ON . USUALLY I SEE PEOPLE TANKING SO THEY SAY " TANK IT UP FOR RS.500 ..BUTT YOU CANNOT JUDGE IF YOU ACTUALLY GOT THE RIGHT AMOUNT OR NOT ..IN LITERS