Reply to: Something that really annoys me...

[vetran]

I'm banned from some of the service stations round here so I have limited options

why?

[Ticktock]

Maybe just apocrophyal, but I was once told that if you look at the little icon of the pump on your guage, then the side of the pump that the hose is on equals the side of the car that the filler is on.

[Pondlife]

From the mail in 2010

Ford, Volkswagen, Toyota and Nissan all said their modern vehicles had such an indicator.
Vauxhall said all models built in the past two years have an arrow but added that the petrol cap always sits on the driver’s side in their vehicles anyway.
Audis and BMWs do not have an indicator as standard, but again say it is always on the driver’s side - except in BMW Minis.
Citroen and Peugeot do not have a graphic, and the cap can be found on either side of their cars. The manufacturers’ responses disprove another common, but mistaken, belief: that the cap is on whatever would be the passengers’ side in a car’s main market, so drivers could safely fill up from a jerry-can at the side of the road, away from passing traffic.




Our BMW does have the little indicator

[doodab]

There's a little arrow on the petrol gauge

That depends on the car I suspect. Mine doesn't have one.

[MaryPoppins]

There's a little arrow on the petrol gauge

...is there?

[Pondlife]

One car having the filler one side, & the other car having the filler on the other side.

Can never remember which is which.

There's a little arrow on the petrol gauge

[kaiser78]

I don't like pay@pump as many times the receipt doesn't print out

Every single time...

[KentPhilip]

Why don't they have a car that has a filler on both sides?

[zoco]

Why don't you just keep driving to a filling station that doesn't have such a big queue?

I'm banned from some of the service stations round here so I have limited options

[doodab]

Why don't you just keep driving to a filling station that doesn't have such a big queue?

[original PM]

What annoyed me was, when I pulled into my local garage and sat behind a car at a pump - driver nowhere to be seen so obviously, inside paying for their petrol and will be out soon.
After 5 minutes of sitting there and many other cars coming and going, it becomes obvious they've filled up, and then gone into the shop/mini-supermarket, got themselves a trolley and are doing a full shop!

Very annoying. Move your bloody car!!!

whs +1000

[rhubarb]

What annoyed me was, when I pulled into my local garage and sat behind a car at a pump - driver nowhere to be seen so obviously, inside paying for their petrol and will be out soon.
After 5 minutes of sitting there and many other cars coming and going, it becomes obvious they've filled up, and then gone into the shop/mini-supermarket, got themselves a trolley and are doing a full shop!

Very annoying. Move your bloody car!!!

[Mich the Tester]

..and judging by the number of people who do it I bet a few of you on here are guilty of this too :

People at petrol stations who won't use a pump when it's on the opposite side to their filler cap and just sit there blocking my route to that pump

I mean, a minibus or something fair enough but a Fiat 500? Sheesh....

Almost as annoying as filler pump hoses that are too short to stretch to the other side of the car. I mean, if I was driving a HGV, that's one thing, but a Fiat 500?

[SueEllen]

And whose bright idea was to make filler cap on the other side from the driver?

I guess they are just cheapskates and don't want to adapt model for UK market

It use to mean if you had a Japanese or other model from the Far East you rarely had to queue at petrol stations with pumps with short hoses.

Now it makes no difference as more people have such cars due to them producing smaller fuel efficient models.

[Paddy]

..and judging by the number of people who do it I bet a few of you on here are guilty of this too :

People at petrol stations who won't use a pump when it's on the opposite side to their filler cap and just sit there blocking my route to that pump

I mean, a minibus or something fair enough but a Fiat 500? Sheesh....

My car is rather wide, if I do it from the opposite side the nozzle is upside down and cuts out