Most number of litres to fill your tank?

I managed 39.76 litres this morning, and it wasn’t coughing/spluttering on reaching the petrol station. Left me wondering if our tanks aren’t bigger than 40L? I didn’t have time for any tricks like pulling the knozzle out a few inches, to squeeze in a bit more. Just to the 2nd auto-shut off.

I've been looking into this myself as a new puma driver, when my needle gets down to just above the empty an nearly 240 miles from full ( light not on ) it take's 24.5 litres to fill up again so in theory i have still got 15 litres in there, think i might keep a petrol can in the boot and see how far i can get out of it.

Hope you haven't used that garage again since Rick as obviously had a faulty pump or maybe 'rigged'.

When I refilled mine on my epic 500+ mile tank drive I didn't need that much from bone dry to spilling out.

46.34 was the most I ever managed.

26 of my tank fills were 40 litres or more.

Done that sort of quantity at other garages as well.

So what degree of pump inaccuracy are petrol stations legally allowed?

Still sounds like a Pumas tank is comfortably bigger than 40l, but 48l = +20%.

Mentions a limit here, at the top, for Leicestershire: http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/business/tradingstandards/ts_consumers/petrol_pump_questions_answered.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
So allowed up to 0.5% less fuel, and 1% more fuel (if I’ve transcribed that correctly). I don’t know what kind fine is imposed, if they’re found to be outside those limits.

edit:
found this regard fines: http://www.petrolprices.com/blog/supermarket-fined-after-overcharging-on-fuel-for-9-months.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm confused at the numbers mentioned. 9.2m litres of fuel x £1.30 per litre (I don't know the price of fuel in 2009) = £11.96m / 4% = £478,400. Yet there's a mention of £150,000 and a fine of only £18k. I suspect it's because of the massive tax on fuel, being a major part of the purchase price, but too late in the day for me to work that one out...

edit 2:
Yep, the retailer is making about £0.021 per litre, which is in the ball park of the £150,000 mentioned, and 4% of that is £6k, and they were fined 3 times that = £18k.

But the 4% was the overall fuel volume? I got it wrong. I'm off to bed.

I would like to add that the tank itself is 40 l (as Ford claims), but you also have the hose leading to it which is good for 2 maybe 3 litres up to the neck. But 46 or even 48 litres are way to much IMHO.
The change in density of fuel is a function fo temperature, but the variation is way to small to give you a margin of 3-5 litres….

If the tank neck accounts for 2-3 litres, there must be some right royal ripping off from petrol stations, to account for those 46-48 litre fill-ups. The pumps must have been over-reading by about 10%.