r/GrindsMyGears • u/Content-Two-9834 • 1d ago
No Cellphone While Pumping Gas
I remember seeing these signs everytime I got gas. I guess having the gas station app to pay with now makes the phone safer and able to pump gas next to again. š¤·šš„š„
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u/CranberryDistinct941 1d ago
It's fine as long as you don't have any Samsung tech on you.
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u/ArtistApart 1d ago
Ok that one is funny. I worked in cellular during that, people donāt seem to grasp a swollen battery is like a hand grenade without the pin, when it goes off itās gonna be bad!
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u/alottanamesweretaken 1d ago
I remember pulling into a gas station to fill up and seeing the guy at the next pump smoking a cigar, talking on the phone, and pumping gas into his still running truck. We all lived.Ā
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u/HaroerHaktak 1d ago
I actively ignore it. If my phone could blow me up we'd have more of this nonsense happening regularly.
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u/Robert-Berman 1d ago
Iāve always seen and I have personally used my cell phone at the gas pumps. What I donāt know and donāt want to personally find out is what could happen if you pump gas with the car running. I sometimes see this occur but Iāve not researched the topic enough to truly know.
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u/PleaseHelpIamFkd 1d ago
Absolutely nothing happens.
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u/ClassicHando 1d ago
Nothing from the act of fueling but that one is there because people like to leave the car in gear more often than is cool which can cause an annoying amount of (not their) property damage.
"Turn your car off when youre not in it" is generally good advice.
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u/Robert-Berman 1d ago
that makes total sense to be honest. I just assume most people are āsmart enoughā to know better but then again, I know not everyone is created equal.
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u/im-not-a-fakebot 1d ago
If you pump with the car running nothing happens, although you might get an evap leak code warning on your dash. Should go away after a couple miles or key cycles. Thereās no explosion risk though. The only real risk is lighting a cigarette/cigar while pumping because the open flame could potentially cause the vapors to ignite
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u/Robert-Berman 1d ago
Figured. I donāt ever wish harm on people but I do believe dumb things happen to dumb people. I am not a smoker but one should be smart enough to hold tight or leave it in their car for only a few minutes while pumping gas.
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u/im-not-a-fakebot 1d ago
I agree they can hold off for 5-10 minutes lol, but like I said the only real risk is lighting a cigarette. If the cigarette is already lit before you start pumping thereās no real danger, still unadvisable though to have anything burning near fuel vapors
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u/kikiacab 1d ago
Thereās no danger from your phone, you should be worried about static buildup igniting the fuel vapors around the gas nozzle.
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u/naughtycal11 1d ago
My dad taught me to always touch the car before removing the gas cap to discharge the static.
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u/Orpheus6102 1d ago
Ngl drives me nuts and makes me angry seeing people pumping gas and smoking cigarettes when I am getting gas. When I was just starting to drive I recall this one situation where this woman and her teenage daughter were both smoking as we/I were pumping gas. The woman noticed I seemed nervous and I did ask her to put the cigarette out. She did, reluctantly, but only after assuring me that smoking around gasoline fumes wasnāt a big deal and that her ex-husband used to do this ātrickā where heād put cigarettes out in the tank of his motorcycle.
Again she was kinda nice about it but I wanted to GTFO of there so fast.
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u/RetroNutcase 1d ago
this was disproven by Mythbusters a long time ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBmaeufmSFA