150% Price Increase at BP stations

[anonymous-user]

CraigyMc said:

I'm pretty sure TPS systems are becoming required equipment on new cars either this year or next.

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Oh great more pointless electronic gubbins to go wrong ?

Then it will 'suddenly' be an Mot failure if the TPS is defective with a big bill (not the name of the fitter ) to repair ?

[blindswelledrat]

tubbystu said:

Captain Muppet said:

Was there no way you could have been more dramatic and misleading with the thread title?

Perhaps he works for the Daily Wail.........

Can you imagine the hysteria when it stopped being free?
I bet he just knelt there on the forecourt, adopting a Platoon-style pose, and just screamed "Nooooooooo. An infinity percent increase. The world is at an end" whilst simultaneously pissing and stting his pants.

[CraigyMc]

speedyguy said:

CraigyMc said:

I'm pretty sure TPS systems are becoming required equipment on new cars either this year or next.

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Oh great more pointless electronic gubbins to go wrong ?

Then it will 'suddenly' be an Mot failure if the TPS is defective with a big bill (not the name of the fitter ) to repair ?

Yes, most likely. On the other hand, do you trust the average member of joe public to check their tyre pressures? I don't - so while this is not necessary for the conscientious few, it's a good thing overall.

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[mgtony]

yellowjack said:

Silver C6 said:

I have deleted my initial message from this topic.

Why??????

Honestly, I'm not a complete newcomer to PH, yet I've not seen an OP completely delete a post before. Does this happen often?

Sometimes, but only when they think they're having the PSI taken out of them.

[RenesisEvo]

yellowjack said:

A lucky escape and a lesson learned, hence why I'm so OCD about checking the tyres ever since.

I'm similarly obsessive about checking tyre pressures. The compressor lives in the car, along with a tyre gauge. One tyre kept losing air, not drastically but maybe 5psi over a week. I couldn't see anything obvious, so thought it was simply not properly seated on the rim. I was very wrong. I got sick of having to inflate the tyre everytime I wanted to go anywhere further than the local shops so I had a garage look at it whilst the thermostat was being changed. They found a long nail through the tyre, the scary part being that the tip was actually scoring away the inside of the sidewall. That could have ended very badly.

[AJB]

speedyguy said:

Oh great more pointless electronic gubbins to go wrong ?

Then it will 'suddenly' be an Mot failure if the TPS is defective with a big bill (not the name of the fitter ) to repair ?

They mostly work from the ABS sensors now. If one tyre is soft, its radius will have reduced, so that wheel will now be rotating faster. So probably about 20 lines of software and maybe one switch to recalibrate it after a tyre change. Pretty unlikely to cause a big bill at any point, and seems like a good idea to me.

[The Wookie]

I filled the gf's mum's range rover tyres at an Esso station the other day. 50p for 4 minutes. I'm guessing the bloke before us only had a quid in his pocket because it was still running after I'd topped up all four and driven off!

Bargain. Although the OP would probably think I was stealing air. Having said that I've probably been described as an Oxygen thief before, does that mean I've made a 500% increase in my thievery?...

[Stinkfoot]

In Maidstone there is a BP right opposite a Tesco/Esso and diesel is often 3p a litre more expensive than Tesco and as such its usually empty.

[RizzoTheRat]

AJB said:

They mostly work from the ABS sensors now. If one tyre is soft, its radius will have reduced, so that wheel will now be rotating faster. So probably about 20 lines of software and maybe one switch to recalibrate it after a tyre change. Pretty unlikely to cause a big bill at any point, and seems like a good idea to me.

Effective too, mine spotted a puncture the other day while I still had well over 20psi in the tyre, so I was able to change it before any risk of tyre or wheel damage, which might not have been the case if I'd had to carry on driving until I could feel the difference in handling.

[CraigyMc]

RizzoTheRat said:

AJB said:

They mostly work from the ABS sensors now. If one tyre is soft, its radius will have reduced, so that wheel will now be rotating faster. So probably about 20 lines of software and maybe one switch to recalibrate it after a tyre change. Pretty unlikely to cause a big bill at any point, and seems like a good idea to me.

Effective too, mine spotted a puncture the other day while I still had well over 20psi in the tyre, so I was able to change it before any risk of tyre or wheel damage, which might not have been the case if I'd had to carry on driving until I could feel the difference in handling.

You couldn't feel a single PSI difference? Hand in your PH badge.


(Just kidding, sounds useful).

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[Roo]

Stinkfoot said:

In Maidstone there is a BP right opposite a Tesco/Esso and diesel is often 3p a litre more expensive than Tesco and as such its usually empty.

Where's that?

[RizzoTheRat]

CraigyMc said:

You couldn't feel a single PSI difference? Hand in your PH badge.

I drive a diesel, my senses are obviously so numbed by the noise, smell and vibration that I can't spot things like that as quickly as the petrol drivers

[CraigyMc]

RizzoTheRat said:

CraigyMc said:

You couldn't feel a single PSI difference? Hand in your PH badge.

I drive a diesel, my senses are obviously so numbed by the noise, smell and vibration that I can't spot things like that as quickly as the petrol drivers

Actual lol, well done

[Ari]

yellowjack said:

It's not so much the cost, rather the thought of paying for something that surrounds us that seems to bother most people.

Quite. I've heard people complain about having to pay for air. "But it's free" they whine.

Indeed it is, and I'm sure that petrol stations are happy for them to have as much as they like from the stuff that floats around the forecourt.

However if they'd like it compressed and squeezed into their tyre for them...

[CooperS]

RizzoTheRat said:

I drive a diesel, my senses are obviously so numbed by the noise, smell and vibration that I can't spot things like that as quickly as the petrol drivers

Don't be so deflated by the subject

[anonymous-user]

0000 said:

tleefox said:

Don't go there then.

HTH.

Quite. It's not like they're exercising high pressure selling techniques.

Are you suggesting that it's all psi-chology? They're really raising the bar for marketing.

[anonymous-user]

AJB said:

They mostly work from the ABS sensors now. If one tyre is soft, its radius will have reduced, so that wheel will now be rotating faster. So probably about 20 lines of software and maybe one switch to recalibrate it after a tyre change. Pretty unlikely to cause a big bill at any point, and seems like a good idea to me.

It would be the 'diagnostic' fee to recalibrate that would worry me,

Isn't it about 60 quid just to open the case

[Robb F]

speedyguy said:

It would be the 'diagnostic' fee to recalibrate that would worry me,

Isn't it about 60 quid just to open the case

There is a button on the dash to reset it.

[EmmaJ]

I feel completely let down by the thread title. The PH mods are clearly under too much pressure by allowing the thread to continue.

[CraigyMc]

EmmaJ said:

I feel completely let down by the thread title. The PH mods are clearly under too much pressure by allowing the thread to continue.

This thread was hosed a long time ago.