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Is it bad to keep your engine running when you fill up the gas tank?
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∙ 16y ago
There is the potential of danger having a running vehicle with its hot exhaust and even hotter catalytic converter around flammable vapors. Granted it does not get much cooler while you are pumping but there is a lot of electrical current running in the vehicle at the same time. The fuel fill tube is almost always in close proximity to the exhaust pipe, and in the event of an overflow raw fuel could run right on it.
better be safe than sorry.
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∙ 16y ago
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