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re: Cars with fuel doors on the right side
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:33 am to TigerGman
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:33 am to TigerGman
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If you run out of gas on the side of the road you want to be standing on the driver's side exposed to traffic or on the passenger side nice and safe?
That's why you don't run out of gas...
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Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:45 am to DLauw
Why not go back and put it behind the license plate?
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:51 am to Geauxnoose
Made illegal because safety.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:52 am to Geauxnoose
My wife has a GMC Terrain and the fuel door is on the passenger side, for the first two months when I was driving I would inevitably pull to the wrong side out of habit. I’m sure I looked like a moron.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:54 am to Ryan3232
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If you run out of gas on the side of the road, it means you are dumb.
I agree. You shouldnt drive on the side of the road.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:59 am to DLauw
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really? Do you not understand how flow works? Were your parents salmon?
If filler location were standardized (left or right) everyone at the pump would be facing the same way.
Years ago, I had someone get upset because I didn’t pull up to the farthest pump. He was trying to back in behind me because his filler was opposite of mine. He put it back in drive and pulled around the lot to the pump in front of me. My filler on my CJ was right rear.
Is it that big of a deal? No, but standardization is always nice and keeps things moving.
Do you live in BFE or something? Are your gas stations all on one-way dirt roads?
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:30 am to Mo Jeaux
If you live in BFE, then it's a non-issue because the pumps are never crowded. It's the stations in urban or metropolitan areas or along major travel routes where it becomes a "problem". Vehicles pulling in from different directions disrupts flow.
After reading some of the responses, I should have worded the OP differently. Should probably read something like: "Why isn't the location of fillers on American cars standardized?"
Decades ago, I filled dump trucks every morning at work. the fleet was a hodgepodge of makes and models. We only had one pump (offroad diesel) so I had the trucks lined up in two directions. It's just not efficient.
After reading some of the responses, I should have worded the OP differently. Should probably read something like: "Why isn't the location of fillers on American cars standardized?"
Decades ago, I filled dump trucks every morning at work. the fleet was a hodgepodge of makes and models. We only had one pump (offroad diesel) so I had the trucks lined up in two directions. It's just not efficient.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:11 am to DLauw
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It's the stations in urban or metropolitan areas or along major travel routes where it becomes a "problem". Vehicles pulling in from different directions disrupts flow.
Again, this makes no sense. You don’t think forcing people coming in from different directions to sort themselves out in one direction just to fuel up, and then resort themselves to go on in different directions would be a cluster frick?
This post was edited on 12/4/18 at 11:12 am
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:23 am to DLauw
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This post was edited on 4/25/19 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:51 am to TheCaterpillar
quote:FIFY
My Subaru was designed in Japan by Fuji Heavy Industries and then built on an assembly line in Indiana and it has a right side fuel door.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:33 pm to Geauxnoose
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Why not go back and put it behind the license plate
Purely gauging by the pic you posted, I'd hate to squat on my knees to pump gas.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:33 pm to TigerGman
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If you run out of gas on the side of the road you want to be standing on the driver's side exposed to traffic or on the passenger side nice and safe?
That's why Volvo does it.
Yes, design for the situation that happens once a decade (running out of gas) instead of once a week (getting gas).
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:33 pm to soccerfüt
The only time I get mad at this is at Sams club. They have one way lanes into the pumps and half of them are for right side fuel doors. There’s a huge line at the left side and maybe two cars in the right side.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:39 pm to WallsAllAroundMe
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As a child, I swear I remember pulling down the license plate and filling up from there. Or was that a messed up dream I had?
I remember. That's back when you could take a nap on the shelf behind the back seat.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:43 pm to DLauw
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Were your parents salmon?
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:46 pm to DLauw
It is very convenient at Costco because fewer people use that side of the pump.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:47 pm to DLauw
Auto makers sure suck dick.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:50 pm to Areddishfish
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Had to suffer through this when I owned a Chevrolet car years ago. Now that I have Toyotas it's never an issue.
Huh? all of my toyotas/Lexus's have fuel door on the right side.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:51 pm to DLauw
Article on this issue. Complete with the video of the woman who keeps driving around the pumps.
So basically, right side for safety, left side for convenience. Sometimes due to technical design issues.
Center rear is now illegal.
So basically, right side for safety, left side for convenience. Sometimes due to technical design issues.
Center rear is now illegal.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:54 pm to chryso
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It is very convenient at Costco because fewer people use that side of the pump.
I don’t fill up at Costco anymore because they made me wait in line instead of coming from the other direction
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