Fuel filler cap

Would you believe that neither of mine pop?

My 2005 Lancer does, but ny 90 series Prado doesn't.

My Cagiva has two arrows - one for each tank.

My Lancer is a 1993... a little bit more mature than yours Graham....lol.

Not correct, the nissan patrol has the fuel gauge on the left of the speedo but the filler is on the right side of car.

And there's no arrow...

Well that rule has always worked for me? I'm guessing it's not the latest model Nissan? I regularly drive a few at work and they are all as per my rule of thumb.

Definitely not the latest, it's a GU

My 80 series has the little bowser on the right side of the instrument cluster while the filler is on the left side of the vehicle.

No arrows.

Bruce.

If that is confusing, then look for the nozzle on the graphic in your fuel guage and that is the side the filler is on.

If all fuel filling points were on the left then one side of the bowser would never be used.
Do believe they mix them up for just this reason, that is to say that half of the vehicles will fill from the left side of the vehicle and half will fill from the right.
Den

"If all fuel filling points were on the left then one side of the bowser would never be used."

I hope you are joking...you can drive in from any directon so left/right is irrelevant. Never seen a bowser that, by design, had to be reversed out of.

Cheers
Gret

I have often wondered about that too, with so many of our ppl getting killed whilst filling their empty tank on roadside, why aren't our Governments insisting that the filler is on the left side

Whom does one sue for accidental death?

How hard is it to design the filler on left?

Of course, manufacturers will say, don't run out of fuel, leaving them faultless

I think its mostly determined by whether the car is designed for left or right hand drive. European cars tend to have the filler on our driver side which is their passenger side. Jap cars are the opposite...usually.

Explorer, when you say you drive in from either direction, that would be fine if you servos allowed for this but most servos have traffic coming in from one direction only and exit one way only. Therefore if all the traffic is going thru in one direction you need a mix of left and right hand placed fillers on vehicles to use both sides of the pump. ( Have seen a few vehicles come from the oppsite direction. Thats when some body does have to back up.)
As the van is attached most of the time we found that you only make the mistake of coming in on the wrong side once.
Have a nice day
Den

Den

Apologies - Im from the country where "most" servos dont have set in and out directions. I can see the need for this in some busier areas...though doubt it would even then = "most" servos..but maybe it does. From what Ive seen its a case of first in best dressed and following cars have to make their own descision based on what bowsers are free. I had to drive into a servo the other day front on to another vehicle as it was my only choice - apart from waiting for the guy who just filled up, paid and then went off to the toilet (after dropping something off in his car) to move...ignorance/arrogance/plain stupidity(?) at its best.

Cheers
Greg

Two things.....
1. Don't people realise that the hoses on most bowsers are long enough to fill the car from the opposite side to where the filler is?

2. It was mentioned how for safety, fillers should be on the curb side.Well, here's an interesting snippet.....

The VE Commodore ute has the jack pack stored behind the driver's seat. Think about that. You get a flatty, and then you have to have your driver's door wide open to oncoming traffic so that you can loosen and removed the jack pack.

Having said that, it annoys me how people will drive for kilometres on a flat tyre before they realise, yet once they know they have a flat, won't limp a further 50-100 metres more to change their flat down a side street.

I'm convinced some people have a death wish.

Fab.

Hi

I think most people do realise that but guess its a method not often employed because its easier to have your filler on the correct side...had a few laughs watching people try to fill up from the opposite side if they didnt quite park in the exact right spot for the filler to reach ...or it wasnt long enough in the first place. People dont like the idea of a big greasy rubber hose rubbing over their nice clean cars either.

Cheers
Greg

yes my old LH Torana was like that too

LOL :-))

That was alright until you got rear ended.
The cap and filler pipe would break allowing petrol to gush out

Ah, yest the Valiant! Old enough to remember them!
I had a Falcon with the central filler behind the number plate. It was a dog of a thing to fill; too low, lots of blowback.
Then the plastic filler neck of the plastic tank developed a crack. Unrepairable, had to replace the lot. Not that that has anything to do with the topic here......

Around the back, and out in the open. Often allowing us to get wet from rain, while filling. Makes me think how much rain water might get in tank as well.

Often the Diesel pumps are either out the back in the open, or in the driveway closest to the road, reason for this is to allow trucks to get in and out.

Shane

That is my bone of contention also Dodger.
Having diesel or gas or both I find that there is often confusion over which way I should enter a service station or even which lane I should be in.

There should be a national colour code for all fuels.
Say Yellow for Diesels, Reds for Petrol and Purples for gas, and or signage for which lanes they are in. It is almost dangerous when travelling down the road and you are looking for the diesel or gas pump, especially with a van on the back.
And when you get onto the driveway the next question is where is the gas pump or diesel pump. You are usually stopped blocking traffic from entering or leaving the service station further increasing the pressure on you to make a quick decision. Phisses me off sometimes.

Heard a local servo owner say one time "You can tell anyone running on gas they start rubber necking about a hundred yards back up the road". Wouldn't you think that would have told this "Einstien" something about his signage.

Bruce.

The situation is improving re signage, but I've frequently haggled with the poor sod behind the till (not their fault). Often the response is "it's clearly marked on the pump", but the clear markings are above the guages, not high over the ends of the pump. More often than not, they say that I'm the first to complain.

I really get cheesed off with servos which insist on pre-pay. Ok, I know that there are drive-off issues, esp at night, but I was at one the other day (not night), and it was the only one of many pumps at this servo, mainly because of the poor layout of the pumps; ie it was hard to monitor from the till. No marks to the designers of the layout. Like the other signage we all bitch about, it wasn't till you pull up against the pump that one finds this small sign stating that it's pre-pay. Would have pulled up against another pump if I'd known this. To top it off, the flow was so slow (3L/min) that the auto shutoff wasn't working, hence I got hit with a gush of petrol when it filled over. I pointed out the fault to the till operator, but it was met with a shrug.

auto shut off?

not many have them any more at all

except for truck fills

peeves me having to stand there for endless minutes holding the lever while trying to get over 100l in at 3l an hour (well it seems like that)

Bout time colour coding of nozzels on bowsers was made mandatory , what is so difficult in following the UN system of colour , yellow = Diesel , Red = Unleaded, Green = two stroke etc etc.

Hi

They obviously painted the one way arrows in the wrong direction. If you come to WA you are going to get very confused :)

Cheers
Greg