That gas cap indicator arrow is super useful. Remember it is there and you’ll never have to pull up to the pump facing the wrong way again.
There is a Gas Tank Indicator Arrow fact
Is My Gas Cap on the Left or the Right? Just Look at the Icon on the Dashboard
On most cars, on the dashboard next to the fuel gauge, there is a gas icon with an indicator arrow that points toward the side of the car the gas cap is on.
If you are in a rental car, or if you forgot which side of the car the gas cap is on, you can just look a the indicator arrow on the dashboard next to your fuel gauge.
If the car doesn’t have an arrow, the gas icon will be on the side of the car that the gas tank is on. If there is no gas icon, you are potentially in an electric car.
#lifehack.
NOTE: As a reader pointed out, “This is a fact for newer vehicles. But not so for early 2000 and older vehicles… In the old old days, the gas filler was always in the rear of the vehicle behind the license plate or filler panel.”
TIP: In the visual above the gas tank indicator arrow is over-exaggerated to give you an idea of what you are looking for. We have all seen this arrow before, now you know what it means!
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Colonelbob Supports this as a Fact.
This is a fact for newer vehicles. But not so for early 2000 and older vehicles. Back in the old days, when there were only men and women, when you purchased a vehicle you got a walk around with the seller and was shown these important things. In the old old days the gas filler was always in the rear of the vehicle behind the license plate or filler panel.
This was before Big Brother started designing vehicles.
I have been buying cars and trucks since 1969. The best and most trouble free vehicle I have ever owned was a 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W30. Lots of power, very comfortable, cold cold A/C and handled well. It got 18 – 21 mpg on the highway (depending on how you drove it) and 15-16 mpg in the city. Great fun car. Newer cars are safer and more efficient. However they are expensive and complicated to repair and maintain. They are in reality rolling computers. This is both what makes them safer and more efficient and also what is wrong with them. In my Olds I could carry a basic tool box, coil and multimeter and I could make it run at least enough to get to a service station. With new cars if it quits on you, call a tow truck and mortgage your first born to pay for the repairs.
I have a degree in Industrial Engineering Automotive technology. I know what I am talking about.
Thomas DeMicheleThe Author Did not vote.
Great comment! Thank you so much!
Jon Simone Doesn't beleive this myth.
Not true on all cars
Thomas DeMicheleThe Author Did not vote.
Wow… really? There is a car that has an arrow that points away from the gas tank? Or just some cars don’t have them. I would agree some cars don’t have them, but seems crazy they would put an arrow and then point it away from the tank 😀
Rangutan Doesn't beleive this myth.
I have not seen it. Therefore it doesn’t exist.
Thomas DeMicheleThe Author Did not vote.
Translate that to Latin and you have a timeless quote for the fridge.
“Videtur quod non. Unde hoc non est.” – Cicero
Something like that.