I have never turned my vehicle off while pumping gas in my life and have yet to have an issue. Especially coming from a Northern state where it gets pretty cold you see a lot of people doing the same thing. What is the potential risk or is it all just a myth?
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Cars generate sparks. Those sparks are normally constrained safely inside the engine cylinders, but if you have faulty plug wires they can arc outside the engine.
Pumping with the car off reduces the risk of fire by some unknown amount. Maybe a low amount that you don’t need to worry about and maybe not. After all, everything is 100% safe until it isn’t.
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