Petrol filler caps

megakid

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Just a quick query for you all,

To cut a long story short, Im doing a university project on queuing at petrol stations and just wondered first, what dictates which side the filler cap is on a car? and if there's no hard fast rule for it, could we have a poll please, Which side is your filler cap on: Right or Left.
Also do you only fillup on pumps that are next to your filler cap or do you stretch the pump over to the alternative side - Me for one gets annoyed when I see a huge queue for one side pumps, when the other side is completely empty because people dont think they can reach :confused:

On a side note, I was sat outside a petrol station last night for an hour or so and the manueveurs you see some people try to do is amazing... This one woman in a E320 CDI reversed from one queue, up against an adjacent queue, did a 5 point turn to turn around then a 180 curve around to a completely different queue that was the same length - narrowly avoiding incoming cars from the road!

Cheers!
 
European cars almost always have the fuel cap on the right. Jap cars usually have them on the left.

Instead of messing about holding the pump over the other side of the car I usually spin it round and reverse in.
 
Gilly said:
European cars almost always have the fuel cap on the right. Jap cars usually have them on the left.
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my MG's cap is on the left, exceptions to the rule I guess, oh and the laguna's is on the right hand side. I'll reach the pipe over the back of the laguna but I'd rather wait for a pump on the right (left) side for the MG tbh.

HT
 
[off topic]sounds like simulation to me. Was gonna do that this year but got the dissertation etc to do over easter :( shame as its easy marks[/off topic]

Most cars I know are on the right. Never pull the hose around myself- too easy to damage paintwork that way.
 
I thought Gilly was right, until I realised that my European Volvo has the cap on the left. Another exception to the rule then

I always use the pump on the side with the filler cap as I don't like dragging the pipe across the roof of the car potentially scratching it from the grit and other crap on there.

Burnsy
 
The fuel cap for my Fiesta is on the left, whereas with my 205 it was on the right and so was the 306.

The worst thing at petrol stations is when some dippy woman is using the pump at the back of the forecourt rather than the one at the front so you have to use a different pump and stretch it over the car :mad:
 
Mine is on the left. I never bother using a right hand pump, can't be bothered to pull it over my car so i just queue for a left hand pump.
 
my cap is on the right hand side and i will usually use a pump to this side, however if the other pumps (that are not on my side of thew car) are free (and there is space to do so safely) i will spin my car around and reverse onto the pump. i do not see a problem with this at all and i personally wish more people done this rather than being sheep and the great british nature of loving to quee,i will not strech the hose over my car, it will damage paintwork :) and i dont see the point in waiting if i can just reverse onto the pump safely without causing anyone else inconvieniance
 
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mine is on the right.

i always go to whichever has the shortest queue (usually the right).

i just hold the pump pipe above my car for the few minutes it takes to fuel
 
Mine's on the left (Jap car) - and most people are always queueing for the ones on the right hand side, so it's often easy for me ;)

However for me it's easy to reach the other side, then again with my mondeo it was also very easy to reach across.
 
i'm the same as freefaller (mx-5) - cap on the left, but as its a low flat boot and the filler cap faces up its very easy to reach across

pretty much always have done though, although i did manage to scratch my 200sx doing that, and my Mum's A-class (right) it just doesn't reach across on most pumps
 
megakid said:
On a side note, I was sat outside a petrol station last night for an hour or so and the manueveurs you see some people try to do is amazing... This one woman in a E320 CDI reversed from one queue, up against an adjacent queue, did a 5 point turn to turn around then a 180 curve around to a completely different queue that was the same length - narrowly avoiding incoming cars from the road!

Cheers!
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She should calm down, afterall, she's about to spend a LOT of money filling up that car.
 
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