I only found out last month. Been driving 20-odd years...
Something very useful I've found out today. There's a little arrow by the fuel gauge on a modern car's dashboard which indicates which side of the car the fuel filler is on.
Many's the time I've driven into a fuel station in a hire car & had to guess what side the filler is on. Always seem to get it wrong & end up stretching the hose over to the far side of the car. Then it still doesn't reach & end up moving the car. Never again!!!
Anybody else on here not know that??
I only found out last month. Been driving 20-odd years...
I think you were the only male left on earth that didn't know that?!
No, I didn't not know that.
Cheers..
Jase
No way, been driving since 93 and I didn't know that haha...
Had no idea. But to be honest, remembering what side the filler cap is located has never been something I struggled with
EDIT: I will, however, be checking the dash tomorrow.
I had to check out mine & Mrs T-7's cars on the drive to confirm that they both have the arrow. Never noticed it before.
Hose on the pump icon usually indicates what side the filler cap is on.
Also, under the bonnet, the cap with 710 on it is where you put the oil....
I was similarly surprised when told about 10 years ago.
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Well, 35 years of driving and it’s a new one on me.
Cheers,
Ben
..... for I have become the Jedi of flippers
" an extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife "
41 years for me and also new, especially when hiring cars
Every day's a school day
I just had to go outside and check ours - and I've been driving for 52 years!
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
If there's an arrow, it indicates the side. If there is no arrow then the side the nozzle is on shows which side.
I found out a few years back but there's no indication on my 1984 Audi Coupe GT.
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...=1#post4943741
But it did take me a long time to twig
Didn't know it, because my car doesn't have it.
I just park at whatever pump is available though. Its not difficult to park close enough for the hose to reach.
Well I never ! I'm just a youngster compared to you guys (driving for 30 years), and didn't know this. This will be so handy, I never remember the side for my wife's car.
[I'm suspicious that this is actually true as I've never noticed this before, but I'm assuming you're right and I'm just unobservant.]
P.S. The chap at Enterprise obviously didn't know this either when I asked which side for a van I hired last month, when sitting in the cab (and he didn't know).
Ring pull on a can of cola etc has a hole in it so you can swivel it over the opening and use a straw...
Been driving since '89 and didn't know that.
Have heard that but never ever retain it long enough to check in my car!!
Just to prove it isn’t always the case, this was my wife’s 2003 Honda with the petrol hose picture on the right but the fuel filler on the left
I was always curious as to what that was...... now I know 👍
I thought everyone knew this!!
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
LOL, never paid any attention to it.. if I drive vehicle I’m not familiar with I always check which side the fuel tank is on, tyres, spare and screen wash level when look under the hood as well as the dipstick is fully sited just in case. A couple of years ago had a hired car delivered to us with oil cap missing..
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In the case above I would have thought that the arrow was pointing at the distance left before needing to refill, or 435 miles.
I would go with the random view and say on the right.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
I’d say that the filler was on the left as the arrow is on the left. Even though it’s pointing right!
Assuming it is RHD vehicle, I say the passenger (left hand) side?
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Surely that’s not the actual fuel gauge but the on board computer? I’m pretty sure all Hyundai caps are always on the left side
And here's something else a lot of people don't know.......or DO!.
The hose reaches across the car,AND the rubber hose doesn't scratch the car........so all those you see waiting in line just to have the filler by the pump!,don't need to.I drive past them to the next available pump,they could do the same but choose to wait even after I've filled up n gone!.What are people thinking,surely they are aware it does reach across the car,maybe they think it won't,or it will damage the car.......it will,and it doesn't.Some
will know why some do this strange thing and just wait!.
So damn annoying!.
Try it you'll see it's perfectly safe,the few feet you walk won't see you have an heart attack due to the that walk to the filler.
Even if the hose was not on the ground, there are plenty of sand particles stuck on the paintwork itself unless the car is just out of the wash. Just saying.
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My wife isn't even aware a car has a fuel filler cap.
The car just magically refuels itself
Was looking for links of those You Tube videos where, usually the fairer of our species, drive off with the nozzle still inserted.
Every time I top up,I ask Mrs SiSetts what side is it on??
Her reply..... what side does the arrow point!!!
Some women.......they know everything.
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I read on this forum a couple of years ago a guy trying to say it was more dangerous to refill your car on the far side. He was resolute in his opinion that he wouldn’t risk doing it. I can’t really remember his reasoning as I disregarded his thoughts about driving after that.
"She's gonna do it man, she's gonna do it....!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j52odgkRxDs
I found out last year when the wife told me ,she knows nowt about cars ,and it seems neither do I
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Well, I went with the ‘logic’ of arrows on every other car, ie the arrow points towards the pump, so the cap would be on the right. But Hyundai seem to want to defy convention and the arrow points towards the cap. On an image of a pump. Go figure.
It was the only image of a pump that I seem to recall on the dash. Still, I was singularly unimpressed by the Tucson. I wouldn’t be in a rush to get another one.
Something I do fairly regularly if the left sided fuel pumps are queued out. I have to because of the following.
We have a local Shell garage with built in Greggs bakery. What drives me mad are the cars sitting at the pumps with a driver paying for fuel, who then decides to do a shop and then pop in to the Greggs. They can be away for 5-10 minutes.
To be fair, it took my wife 15 years to realise that cars ran on fuel. And that was only because I was away at the time.
I always fill up on the opposite side. The trick is to park up a couple of feet past the hose and just use one hand to keep the hose off the boot of the car. It means I can get the last dregs of fuel out of the hose, I'm not leaving it in there for someone else after I've paid for it.