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Fuel filler cap location
In yesterday's Times, Questions Answered, there was some discussion concerning why fuel filler caps are located on a particular side of a car. The consensus was that the filler cap is located on the opposite side to the driver, applicable to the car's country of origin. The idea being to facilitate fill-ups from pumps located at the kerbside. This convention does seem to apply to European and UK cars, but no mention was made of a significant exception to this rule, namely US cars. Can anyone offer an explanation as to why US cars don't follow this convention? Maybe its only Chrysler that's different? As we no longer have kerbside pumps in the UK (unless, maybe, in some remote country areas), my own preference is to have the driver and filler cap located on the same side (as in my Audi), as this saves walking round the car. Perhaps this is the logic behind the US convention?
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