Steve4x4SolarElectric

I had the same problem in every RV so far with the pin type sensors. I looked at Quartzsite and Indio rally for a better sensor and found none. So later I bought an inductive sensor like SeeLevel, which senses the liquid level by signal sent thru foil tape on outside of the tank. The more liquid is in the tank, more signal is picked up from one foil strip and passed on to the other foil strip through the liquid. Both on outside of tank, so there is no deterioration or contamination from the tank contents, and no drilling the tank required. Actually I ended up with a different brand that was in stock at Camping World. It works great, solving the problem forever. One unexpected difficulty was that the new unit needed 3 wires from the tank whereas original had only two each tank, so I did have to run a new cable to each of the three tanks.

Both some years ago, and again this month, I received discount benefit offer with Pilot/Flying J. Five or ten years ago it was a Flying J Travel Plaza discount program with Good Sams (Affinity Group) RV club, which I recall they later said was canceled due to some problems experienced. I tried to use it for the first time but the station said they had never heard of any such program. This month my new membership in Family Motorcoach Association informed me that I had a Pilot fuel discount program with their membership. In both instances I made my first stop at the named stations to fill up a big RV fuel tank but met with employees who knew nothing about the program. This time, Feb 21 at Pilot #307 in N. Palm Springs, California, I had brought in to the counter a printed statement from the FMCA literature, but they still knew nothing about the program. A supervisor was called over and asked, but neither was aware of any such program. Well, since this was the second time that happened to me in these stations, I placed a cell call to Family Motor Coach Association to ask what was up with their claimed Pilot discount program. They told me to ask about a “Real Value” card. I returned to the counter with that and they scurried around and found something about it, but insisted Real Value applies ONLY to diesel, NOT to gasoline purchases and I was filling gasoline. I thought, OK: forget this stuff. I paid by Visa card and made no more stops at Pilot stations. But when I got home to the big pile of accumulated mail, Family Motor Coach Association had followed-up that phone call by sending the facts and a Real Value card and right on the card it says: 3 cents off Diesel, 2 cents off gas, 10 cents off Propane. No big deal on the pennies of savings lost, but REALLY aggravating to find in two out of two experiences that the travel plaza employees were not trained to handle it. I guess it’s a rarely utilized program if they have no prior experience administering it.... And the pumps that cut off at $75, yes I could restart them but generally if that is all they want to sell, I move on to another station later which may not have such distrust of their customers.