Presently most people use cars and bikes. People keep coming to petrol pumps to fill fuel in their vehicles. However, if you are not careful while filling petrol or diesel in your car, you can be cheated right in front of your eyes. It is just a game of eyes, through which you can avoid becoming a victim of fraud. From jump tricks to tampering with density meters, petrol pumps are cheated. Let us know how this is done.
Keep an eye on the meter
When customers go to a petrol pump to fill their car, the employee asks people to look for zero in the meter. Seeing the zeros, customers are satisfied that the vehicle is properly filled with petrol and diesel, but cheating is also done in this meter. This meter has a special display, where the customers need to keep an eye.
Keep an eye on the density meter
There is a game of cheating with customers regarding the purity of petrol and diesel. Customers are cheated by manipulating it. The machines installed in petrol pumps have different sections, in which you can see all the data like how much petrol is worth how much and in what quantity. On the screen of this machine, you can see the density, which directly reflects the quality i.e. purity of the fuel. By keeping an eye on this you can avoid fraud.
Fraud is done by tampering with the standards set for density at petrol pumps. Density means it shows you the density. The thickness of a substance can be called its density. When a product is prepared by mixing a certain amount of elements, the quality of that item is set based on that. If there is a slight variation in it, then it can be understood that adulteration has been done in it.
The density of petrol is fixed at 730 to 800 kilograms per cubic meter, while the density of diesel is fixed at 830 to 900 kilograms per cubic meter. Keep an eye on whether you are more or less than this.
This is how the game happens too
Complaints related to low oil levels are often heard at petrol pumps. No one notices this fraud happening here, due to which customers are directly out of pocket. The customer may also become a victim of the jump trick. In this too, customers are robbed by showing them the meter. When you look at the meter, you must have noticed that starting from 0 the meter immediately reaches Rs 5-6 and the middle 2-3-4 are not visible. This is where the game is played with the customers because after starting from zero the meter should increase in a phased manner according to Rs 1-2-3.
Pay attention here also
Fraud can also be done through the nozzle used to inject petrol or diesel into the vehicle. The reason for the auto-cut nozzle on the petrol pump is that if it is manual, the employee can stop it midway and reduce the pressure, which affects the quantity of petrol or diesel. If this happens to you too, you can complain on the toll-free number 18002333555. After this, if any irregularities are found in the investigation, the license of the pump can be canceled.
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