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(Message started by: Jimmy B. on Aug 16th, 2005, 10:38am)
Title: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by Jimmy B. on Aug 16th, 2005, 10:38am
Have you ever gone to a gas station with a new, borrowed, or rented car, and don't know which side the gas tank is on?

Take a look at the Instrument Cluster Panel in front of the driver and draw an imaginary line, cutting the Instrument Cluster Panel in half. If the fuel guage is towards the right of that imaginary line...the fuel tank's on the right side and if the fuel guage is on the left...you guessed it...the fuel tank's on the left.

Works for 95 percent of American used (not made, mind you) cars.
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by Melissa on Aug 16th, 2005, 10:51am
Well, I'm in the 5% because my Corolla's fuel guage is on the right and my tanks on the left. :-/  Now that I think about it, my hubby's 1 ton Chevy's guage is also on the right and the tank on the left... sure it's not the "opposite" instead of the same side?
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by Racer1_NC on Aug 16th, 2005, 11:00am
Of course on the later models you can always look for the arrow......... ;)

B
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by don on Aug 16th, 2005, 11:14am
OR! You could look before you get in!
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by Karla on Aug 16th, 2005, 11:15am
Our gage isn't working correctly in our S10 pickup truck.  $600 to repair it.  We just keep track of the milage so we know if we are good to go or not.  That is alot of money for such a small part.
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by Jimmy B. on Aug 16th, 2005, 11:26am

on 08/16/05 at 11:14:21, don wrote:
OR! You could look before you get in!



Yeah ok...I guess you could do that, too. :)

According to the site...it doesn't work on all cars but gives you a better chance of pulling up to the correct side of the pump without getting out of the car .
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by Drk^Angel on Aug 16th, 2005, 11:40am
I just look in the driver side mirror... If I see the filler door, I know it's on the left, otherwise I park with the pump on the right... And if I can't find it on either side... I just dump it in the back.  :P

PFDAN.................................. Drk^Angel
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by jcmquix on Aug 16th, 2005, 11:49am

on 08/16/05 at 11:40:21, Drk^Angel wrote:
I just look in the driver side mirror... If I see the filler door, I know it's on the left, otherwise I park with the pump on the right... And if I can't find it on either side... I just dump it in the back.  :P

PFDAN.................................. Drk^Angel


Makes sense to me !!! Things that make you go Hmmm...
Charlie
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by Jasmyn on Aug 16th, 2005, 11:56am
I have this disability that I do not know right from wrong(I mean left).  So am always right or always wrong.

The petrol attendants here are super as they always indicate where I should pull in! :)
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by Frank_W on Aug 16th, 2005, 11:58am
If I'm on the wrong side, I've found the perfect solution. Have you ever seen a mama birdie feeding her babies? She'll hold the worms in her mouth, possibly masticate them a little, and then let the food drop from her mouth into the waiting mouths of her babies. So, if I pull up and find that I'm on the wrong side, I put my mouth over the nozzle, depress the trigger until I've got a mouthful of fuel, and then lean over the fuel opening of the vehicle and "feed" it. I usually keep a chopstick in my briefcase so I can open the fuel "trapdoor," just like a baby birdie's mouth, waiting to accept the precious "food" that I have borne ever so carefully. Admittedly, fueling your vehicle in this manner IS rather time consuming, but it gives you a true sense of satisfaction and a level of intimacy with your machine, not unlike the relationship that a mama birdie shares with her babies. The only real drawback to this, is that because most clusterheads are smokers, you may want to go rinse your mouth out first, prior to hopping into the driver's seat and sparking up a cigarette.
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by jcmquix on Aug 16th, 2005, 12:06pm
Hey Frank you are not the one who put Gas in this boat and then had a Cigg... Are You..???


http://www.bearkey.com/photos/1077466945-Explosion.jpg

PFDAN's to ALL !!!
Charlie
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by Melissa on Aug 16th, 2005, 12:06pm

on 08/16/05 at 11:58:06, Frank_W wrote:
If I'm on the wrong side, I've found the perfect solution. Have you ever seen a mama birdie feeding her babies? She'll hold the worms in her mouth, possibly masticate them a little, and then let the food drop from her mouth into the waiting mouths of her babies. So, if I pull up and find that I'm on the wrong side, I put my mouth over the nozzle, depress the trigger until I've got a mouthful of fuel, and then lean over the fuel opening of the vehicle and "feed" it. I usually keep a chopstick in my briefcase so I can open the fuel "trapdoor," just like a baby birdie's mouth, waiting to accept the precious "food" that I have borne ever so carefully. Admittedly, fueling your vehicle in this manner IS rather time consuming, but it gives you a true sense of satisfaction and a level of intimacy with your machine, not unlike the relationship that a mama birdie shares with her babies. The only real drawback to this, is that because most clusterheads are smokers, you may want to go rinse your mouth out first, prior to hopping into the driver's seat and sparking up a cigarette.


[smiley=ohjez.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by Frank_W on Aug 16th, 2005, 12:08pm

on 08/16/05 at 12:06:13, jcmquix wrote:
Hey Frank you are not the one who put Gas in this boat and then had a Cigg... Are You..???


Shhhhh....  :-X "Don't ask. Don't tell."  [smiley=smokin.gif]
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by jcmquix on Aug 16th, 2005, 12:18pm

on 08/16/05 at 12:08:58, Frank_W wrote:
Shhhhh....  :-X "Don't ask. Don't tell."  [smiley=smokin.gif]



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It'll be our secret....ok
Charlie
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by Frank_W on Aug 16th, 2005, 12:20pm
Adds a whole new meaning to, "Loose lips sink ships"  [smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by jcmquix on Aug 16th, 2005, 12:27pm

on 08/16/05 at 12:20:01, Frank_W wrote:
Adds a whole new meaning to, "Loose lips sink ships"  [smiley=laugh.gif]


[smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif]

Never thought of that one.....  [smiley=thumb.gif] [smiley=me&mb.gif]
Charlie
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by Jonny on Aug 16th, 2005, 3:11pm
http://gasbuddy.com/
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by seasonalboomer on Aug 16th, 2005, 3:17pm

on 08/16/05 at 15:11:33, Jonny wrote:
http://gasbuddy.com/



I thought this was something you maybe put in the room with you after your ate too much chili or something.
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by BobG on Aug 16th, 2005, 4:54pm
My Highlander and Dodge have the guages on the right. The filler is on the left on both.
On my hot rod the guage is on the left. The filler is in the middle of
the trunk. You have to open the trunk lid to fill it.
Don't matter though, it never leaves the garage. Doesn't have a motor in it.
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by blood_Redd_son on Aug 16th, 2005, 5:02pm
i don't have a car, but if ya want info bout gas tanks, keep it on the same side as where u put the gas in.
Title: Re: Useful or Useless Info. Non CH
Post by don on Aug 16th, 2005, 7:57pm
Well there goes the OUCH yacht.  Nice going Bob.

I told you to stock up on the "Beano" before you sailed to Mexico!


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