On what side of your (main) car is your fuel cap?

[pokerfan]

Poll question: On what side of your (main) car is your fuel cap?

I bought gas today for $1.60!

[Kali]

1. is that from inside or facing the vehicle?

my gas cap is on the driver's side, bought for $1.70 on Thursday.

[pokerfan]

2. stage left vs. stage right

...facing your audience err potential targets.

[Shakespeare]

3. You could make this less confusing, and edit to say "driver side" or "passenger side"

Mine's on the driver's side.

[pokerfan]

4. Done!

[Inchworm]

6. ..

:rofl:

:hi:

[Inchworm]

5. A bit ethnocentric?

:rofl:

Them loons accross the pond drive on the wrong side of the road. Come to think of it... loons in the pond do too. (Bahamas)

:silly:

[pokerfan]

9. I've tried to accommodate everyone and look where it got me

Everyone's a critic. :rofl:

[flvegan]

7. On the right (passenger's side).

[jeff30997]

8. My fuel cap...

Is just under my nose.Yep,no car.:)

[Throd]

10. The only place it should be, behind the rear license plate.

Why they stopped doing that, I'll never understand.

[pokerfan]

12. I wonder if that was for safety

Maybe not be a good thing to locate the fuel tank inlet within a crumple zone.

[Throd]

14. A 1959 Oldsmobile doesn't need crumple zones. It just obliterates anything it hits.

[pokerfan]

15. Neither do old Buicks

I was once rear-ended by a Trans Am. The Pontiac was totaled. I had to replace my bumper and impact absorbers. No sheet metal damage at all.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

43. I've always liked the '57 Chevrolet Bel Air

[greenbriar]

11. 1.49

only took 22 bucks to fill up tonight

YEAAAAAAAA

[tigereye]

39. today I paid 11.50! for 10 plus gallons!

thank you grocery store gas card!

[Tom Kitten]

13. Don't the Japanese drive on the left side of the road also?

This poll is Anglocentric...

[pokerfan]

16. dammit!

You can't edit this message.

[Tom Kitten]

17. Everything will be OK

I'm sure the untold numbers of Japanese DU members who post in the Lounge are a forgiving lot and will perhaps take this opportunity to inform Toyota that it is indeed better to put the gas intake on the left side rather than the right, or vice versa...

[LeftyMom]

18. Driver's side. Cheapest I've seen here is $1.63.

Still, that's cheaper than gas was when I bought the car, so I can't complain. I feel like I should indulge in long road trips before it goes up again.

[Franzia]

19. Right side - the only car I've ever had with the fuel cap on the right side.

I'm forever pulling up to the pump on the wrong side. :silly:

[littlebit]

20. What about

those of us who have tanks on both sides? :shrug:

[Kali]

21. bummer, that sounds like a PITA

My big van has two tanks but they are both on one side (driver's)

[littlebit]

23. Not really the pumps I go to

have one on each side. They also pump out diesel at twice the rate of a regular pump.

[pokerfan]

22. You don't get to vote

I should have thought about that. We had a pickup on the farm that had tanks/fill tubes on opposite sides.

[littlebit]

24. Why don't I get to vote?

You asked about the main vehicle. My Peterbilt is my main vehicle.:hi:

[pokerfan]

25. And how is your Peterbilt?

[littlebit]

26. It's running great.

It would be running even better if I wasn't stuck having to go 55 in CA. I never imagined that I would miss the east coast. But I am so ready to go back there. I am never coming this far west again.

[pokerfan]

27. not leaking any fluids?

[littlebit]

29. No

Just had a DOT inspection done last week also replaced six tires. It's all good. Why?

[pokerfan]

30. Oh, just curious.

[tigereye]

40. cuz he was trying to get a silly rise out of ya!

[Lucian]

28. Right

And it's an American car. Buick Skylark.

[mwooldri]

31. My car is on the right (Ford Focus). Wifes' van (Town & Country) is on the left.

Besides, the Cartalk guys had a way of telling which side your fuel cap is on by looking just at the back of your vehicle. In most cases, your fuel filler is on the opposite side of your exhaust pipe.

Unless you drive an old Beetle - some of those are filled up underneath the front "hood" (I guess, but if the engine is in the back isn't the back the hood and the front the trunk?)

[Deep13]

32. Right side, VWs are always like that.

It is supposed to be safer to fill from a can on the side of the road than on the diver's side.

[pokerfan]

36. Right side means you can pull up next to the pump

and have plenty of room to open your door.

[Deep13]

37. true

Unfortunately what I sometimes find is there is no place to wait for a pump if it is busy because everyone else is approaching the pump on the left of the car while I am going the other direction to approach on the right of it. My 1978 Nova had the fill cap behind the number plate in the center.

[Initech]

33. Driver's side.

[Bertha Venation]

34. I have one of those rotating gas tanks.

If I pull up to a pump on the driver's side, the fuel cap's on the passenger's side. If I pull up to a pump on the passenger's side, the fuel cap's on the driver's side.

(Thanks to Rita Rudner)

[tigereye]

41. that's the way it is with me, too!

:hi: Bertha!


we just saw a vid of a recent Las Vegas Rudner show. Hilarious!

[Bertha Venation]

42. I love her.

:hi: ;)

[sakabatou]

35. I don't remember...

It's been nearly 4 years since I last drove. And my brother took the car I drove.

[tigereye]

38. crap, no it's on the right!

It's a pain in the ass, too.


:crazy:

[old mark]

44. could not vote - have 2 cars, one has cap on right, one on left.

I usually pull up to the wrong side, say bad things, drive around to other pump, vowing to remember which car is which.
Has not worked yet.

mark

[pokerfan]

45. The dashboard indicator can often give a clue

I use this as I often drive rentals. If one looks closely at the indicator, the pump handle icon is almost always on the same side as the fill tube:

[old mark]

46. Dude, isn't that cheating? nt