This morning I pulled in to Morrisons to buy some quality juice for my parched JTD. All the pumps were in use bar the end ones which unfortunately were on the wrong side for the Stilo's filler cap.
No problem, I thought, you can usually get a good reach around (chortle) and fill up the car from the wrong side.
Mistake.
It didn't reach... and I had to back up and stick my nose into another queue.
Got me to thinking, OK so on most cars you can't put the filler in the middle so why not have both sides? As a foreign (LHD) manufacturer you would only have to make one type of panel rather than one with and one without filler cap. OK cost would obviously be the major issue, even allowing for saved setup costs (negligible over a prolonged manuf run) but it would be a gnatty USP.
Failing that, how about petrol stations sticking longer leads on their pumps...
How daft is it that in 2005 we still have to find a pump free with the filler on the correct side. Pah.
Moogs
No problem, I thought, you can usually get a good reach around (chortle) and fill up the car from the wrong side.
Mistake.
It didn't reach... and I had to back up and stick my nose into another queue.
Got me to thinking, OK so on most cars you can't put the filler in the middle so why not have both sides? As a foreign (LHD) manufacturer you would only have to make one type of panel rather than one with and one without filler cap. OK cost would obviously be the major issue, even allowing for saved setup costs (negligible over a prolonged manuf run) but it would be a gnatty USP.
Failing that, how about petrol stations sticking longer leads on their pumps...
How daft is it that in 2005 we still have to find a pump free with the filler on the correct side. Pah.
Moogs