Fuel filler airlock?

[WelshRobin]

Here’s an oddity. I normally use Shell V-Power petrol but today I chose E10. The pump kept cutting out at a very low flow rate, so I moved to another pump with the same result. Later, I used a BP filling station and the E10 pump was just as slow, so back to Shell V-Power and the flow rate was perfectly good! I know this looks like a coincidence, but some months ago I had the same painfully slow fill with E10 at Tesco. Was there an airlock which cleared, or is there a difference in the pump nozzles although they look the same?

[Deleted User 3629]

They are the same size, just a coincidence - however their are some odd things with the Volvo filling system - like when it sometimes clicks at full its sometimes not quite full at a gallon short?

[jamie307]

At my local Shell the member of staff cleaning the pumps once advised me to avoid the front row of pumps because they were very slow. I found this to be true, no idea why but there's obviously great variation in pump speed for one or more reasons.

[ACertainAge]

Hi Welsh Robin, just wondering why you use E5? better economy?