Which side is the fuel tank filler on?
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From: ARWadsworth on 23 May 2010 12:30 "Harry Bloomfield" <harry.m1byt(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:mn.bb347da566b31772.106911(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk... > GT expressed precisely : >> Which tends to cause chaos and requires people to move out of your way >> and leaves your car facing the wrong way on the forecourt and requiring >> more reversing to get out the exit direction, rather than the 'no entry' >> that you are now facing. Just have a little patience and go to the right >> side! > > I never cause confusion, though I might get confused glances. > > It is really simple, you just approach the pump going backwards and then > having filled up either continue backwards until you can turn enough to go > out forwards through the correct exit - or go forwards and around the back > to the correct exit. Why leave a perfectly good pump unused? > > I am quite happy to wait, but if you wait well back from the pumps, > someone is bound to go around you to beat you to a pump. I I see one about > to become free and it should happen to need me to go in backwards to fill > up, I prepare to reverse in. > > -- > Regards, I know petrol stations that will refuse to turn the pump on if you are facing the wrong way. Adam
From: Adrian on 23 May 2010 12:57 %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> I still maintain that for normal motor cars and estates - pump hoses >> *will* reach to the 'other side' quite easily. > I still maintain that you're talking through your hat. The difference > between us is that I am right and you are wrong. I'm with Kev on this one. I just drive up to a pump, any pump, and fill. It can be easier to use a wrong-side pump, since you're not squeezed in between car and island. Some vehicles - sure, it makes a difference. I mentioned a large van, earlier - but, thinking about it, the same applies to our 2cv vans, too.
From: Adrian on 23 May 2010 12:58 %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> Try driving a large van, with the fuel flap behind the door on one >> side. > Or a vehicle such as a motorhome Not a problem on Ducato-based, and probably others, with the filler in the front wing. > large pickup Go over the bed. > or large 4x4 Normally on the rear quarter, go round the back of the tailgate. > Then there's the category of driver physically incapable of dragging a > heavy hose around a vehicle They're outnumbered by the hard of thinking. Hugely. > and the sensible ones who don't want to scratch their paintwork. You've got two hands. One to hold the handle, the other to hold the hose clear.
From: Harry Bloomfield on 23 May 2010 13:55 on 23/05/2010, ARWadsworth supposed : > I know petrol stations that will refuse to turn the pump on if you are facing > the wrong way. My local has no problem where I do it about 1 in three times when they are busy. I have never had anywhere refuse to turn a pump on, even when garbed up with a crash hat on the bike. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: John on 23 May 2010 15:42
Some people look at you as though you are queue jumping if you filter on the inside when they are waiting to turn right!!! (another gripe) > |