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Title: Filler Cap
Post by: Barman on June 17, 2008, 03:56:56 PM
Just listening to something on Forces Radio...

They reckon that in your car, if the fuel gage has a little petrol pump icon... the side of the filler pump thing on the icon indicates on which side of your car the filler cap is...

 rubschin:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Pastis on June 17, 2008, 04:06:01 PM
Mine's a circular dial, with the pump icon just left of centre. That would mean the filler cap is on the near side. And guess what?

It is!  eeek:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Barman on June 17, 2008, 04:07:30 PM
Mine's a circular dial, with the pump icon just left of centre. That would mean the filler cap is on the near side. And guess what?

It is!  eeek:
eeek:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Snoopy on June 17, 2008, 04:08:22 PM
Well I'm buggered!  eeek:


Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Barman on June 17, 2008, 04:11:18 PM
My Pajero has the little pump thing on the right and a little arrow pointing right (i'd never noticed that before)... and the filler is on the right!  eeek:

However, my truck has the little pump thing on the right (no arrow) and the filler is on the near side...  sad24:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Pastis on June 17, 2008, 04:14:40 PM
My Pajero has the little pump thing on the right and a little arrow pointing right (i'd never noticed that before)... and the filler is on the right!  eeek:

However, my truck has the little pump thing on the right (no arrow) and the filler is on the near side...  sad24:

D'you drive on the left or the right? And are your cars l/h or r/h drive? And would that make near side and offside different?

I'm confusing myself  eeek:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 17, 2008, 04:16:08 PM
 rubschin:

I shall have to check when I get home.
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Barman on June 17, 2008, 04:17:18 PM
My Pajero has the little pump thing on the right and a little arrow pointing right (i'd never noticed that before)... and the filler is on the right!  eeek:

However, my truck has the little pump thing on the right (no arrow) and the filler is on the near side...  sad24:

D'you drive on the left or the right? And are your cars l/h or r/h drive? And would that make near side and offside different?

I'm confusing myself  eeek:
We drive on the left (mostly) like the UK and both cars have the steering wheel on the right, like...
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Nick on June 17, 2008, 04:45:27 PM
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We drive on the left (mostly)

 eeek:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Barman on June 17, 2008, 04:48:15 PM
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We drive on the left (mostly)

 eeek:
I think you'd like it here...  whistle:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Snoopy on June 17, 2008, 04:54:41 PM
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We drive on the left (mostly)

 eeek:
I think you'd like it here...  whistle:

I know I would but for insufficient transferable sources of income and SWMBO worrying about education for the sprogs and not being on hand when the end arrives for her aging mother.
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: The Moan Ranger on June 17, 2008, 07:26:26 PM
My car just drinks petrol faster than I can drink Young's. It cares not which side the filler cap is, although it is on the nearside, whereas the almost telepathic indicator is opposite.
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Just One More on June 18, 2008, 01:57:54 PM
I'm a bit late in getting to this thread. They were discussing this on the radio down here a couple of months ago. IIRC, Peugeots differ from most cars
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Darwins Selection on June 18, 2008, 02:03:30 PM
I'm a bit late in getting to this thread. They were discussing this on the radio down here a couple of months ago. IIRC, Peugeots differ from most cars


Has he died part way through the paragraph?
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 19, 2008, 09:03:08 AM
Maybe  rubschin:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2008, 09:05:48 AM
My petrol pump picture on t he dial has an arrow pointing to the right.I had nver noticed that before! rubschin:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 19, 2008, 09:19:53 AM
The icon in my car has the filler nozzle on the right but the the filler cap is on the left.

But there is an arrow next to it pointing left.

But that arrow is also pointing to the 10 bars showing the fuel level.

 rubschin:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2008, 09:22:33 AM
Foreign car?  noooo:

Actually most cars are foreign. I think I meant French!
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 19, 2008, 09:28:09 AM
Ford.
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2008, 09:30:14 AM
American, but built in Spain. Mine's a Ford too. Perhaps your was built "elsewhere"
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Pastis on June 19, 2008, 11:20:32 AM
So, in summary, all about as clear as an EU directive  eeek:

Talking of which, I had to buy an EU directive once. I couldn't buy the individual one as it was batched with various others. Overnight I became an authority on the legal height to fix reflectors on the rear of Polish tractors  eeek:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2008, 11:21:18 AM
Reflective thongs one assumes  eveilgrin:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Pastis on June 19, 2008, 11:27:05 AM
Reflective thongs one assumes  eveilgrin:

Possibly  rubschin:

But that would be Polish trannies surely?
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2008, 11:55:13 AM
I defer to your greater experience!
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Pastis on June 19, 2008, 12:03:49 PM
Polish builders...  evil:

Polish trainers...  eyes:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Nick on June 19, 2008, 12:43:52 PM
 eeek:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2008, 02:56:50 PM
It seeems I have done you all a great service...  whistle:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Snoopy on June 19, 2008, 02:58:17 PM
 Banghead Bugger ~ forgot to look ~ can't be arsed to go through the house to get to the car now.
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2008, 03:05:09 PM
Banghead Bugger ~ forgot to look ~ can't be arsed to go through the house to get to the car now.
::)

After all my work and effort...  noooo:
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Snoopy on June 19, 2008, 03:06:25 PM
Banghead Bugger ~ forgot to look ~ can't be arsed to go through the house to get to the car now.
::)

After all my work and effort...  noooo:

Remind me next time I go out  ;D
Title: Re: Filler Cap
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2008, 03:26:12 PM
Banghead Bugger ~ forgot to look ~ can't be arsed to go through the house to get to the car now.
::)

After all my work and effort...  noooo:

Remind me next time I go out  ;D
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