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In my experience that's only true in TV adverts from my childhood. I've never had one unable to reach in real life.
by jstanley 10mo ago
In my experience that's only true in TV adverts from my childhood. I've never had one unable to reach in real life.
- cromka 10mo agoTry in Europe
- paganel 10mo agoI'm in Europe, in case you're on the "wrong" side of the pump you just have to make sure that you park the car a little further, so you'd get the pump hose through the back and on to the other side without scratching the car's paint. That's all it is to it. I'm from Romania and I've driven (and hence re-fueled) my car all the way from Bretagne, France, to Peloponnese, Greece, never had a problem. I also don't know anything about any "arrow" signalling anything in my dashboard, maybe it's only on the US-made cars, I wouldn't know cause I generally know on which side I have to fuel my car.
- bdbdbdb 10mo agoI'm also in Europe, I drive a ford, and the only fuel arrow on my dash actually points to the wrong side for filling
- lproven 10mo agoPetrol or diesel?
- LtWorf 10mo agoYou have a car that runs on raw petrol?
- lproven 10mo agoI do not know where you are in the world but in the homeland of the English language, Britain and most of its direct (former!) colonies, "petrol" is the stuff cars and motorbikes run on and "diesel" is the stuff agricultural vehicles and heavy plant (lorries, buses) runs on. "Gas" is a phase of matter along with "liquid", "solid", and "plasma" and that is all the bare noun means. "Natural gas", and the obsolete "coal gas"/"town gas", are fuels, but for heating/cooking/light not vehicles as a rule, but generally we'd talk about propane, butane, etc. We never, ever use "gasoline" or the Germanic "benzene" for this. Benzene is a specific chemical here, never ever a fuel.
- mjmas 10mo agoHere in Australia 'gas' as a fuel always means LPG (liquified petroleum gas = propane/butane). And it is getting rarer for cars. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/lpg-cars-disappearing-from-roads-gas-renewable-fuel-vehicles/102236128 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/lpg-cars-disappearing...
- bdbdbdb 10mo agoHence the expression "now you're cooking with gas" That must confuse the hell out of the yanks
- bdbdbdb 10mo agoOh I'm a week late but diesel
- stavros 10mo agoAgreed about never having a problem with this, but our cars either have the arrow, or the hose in the icon is on the side of the car that has the tank cover. This has been true for all cars I've seen here.
- looperhacks 10mo agoI live in Europe, never encountered a problem.
- gambiting 10mo agoI'm in Europe, the hoses always reach to the other side of the car just fine. Or maybe you know, remember that Europe isn't one country and actually say where you are.
- Podrod 10mo agoTry in The World
- LtWorf 10mo agoI live in europe. It does reach the other side.
- lazide 10mo agoApparently you have a tiny car? I’ve never had a vehicle (even a small Subaru) that they reached.
- CoastalCoder 10mo agoI should clarify. The hose probably reaches when the rear of the car is adjacent to where the hose connects to the pump. (I only drive my normal passenger cars, not trucks.) But I'm me not in the habit of doing that, because it doesn't usually matter for me.