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Why not more gas caps behind the license plate?

JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
last century my father's brand new car had the gas cap behind the rear license place.

nowadays its on the side of the car, either on drivers side or passenger side.
 
Meh, I still drive a car like that... Its kinda nice not needing to remember what side you have to pull up to the pump on. Of course, the fuel economy of said vehicle made those trips to the gas station quite frequent. :/
 
You don't need to remember the side. Every (halfway modern) car has an arrow on the gas pump icon on the fuel gauge pointing to the side of the car the cap is on...
 
what would be the benefit?

I can think of reasons not too...
1) rear end collision safety
2) more compact pump spacing at gas stations
3) more trunk space

If anything id like to see it standardized to the drivers side.
 
What cars still have a gas cap behind the lic plate? The last time I had a car like that was on my '74 Regal, so ages ago.
 
justfrank said:
What cars still have a gas cap behind the lic plate? The last time I had a car like that was on my '74 Regal, so ages ago.
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That trend continued well into the eighties. I have an '87 Caprice. That generation was produced until 1989 (for the 1990 model year before transitioning to the third gen version).
 
Bignate603 said:
I've driven a few Japanese cars that had it on the passenger side. I always wondered if it was because they put it on the side that a Japanese driver would be sitting on.
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German and Scandinavian cars tend to prefer the passenger side too. And the Honda I used to have had the filler on the driver's side.

Personally, I prefer it on the passenger side. That way I can pull up close to the pump but still open my driver's door all the way without hitting anything.

ZV
 
Plates are either on the trunk lid or way low on the bumper cover these days, it's unpossible. The gas tanks are further forward than they use to be for crash safety as well.

As far as what side, I'd guess the seating arrangement on foreign cars as well, depending where the cars primary market is. My car has it on the passenger side, but I just figured it's GM wanting to be like the imports. :sneaky:
 
Zenmervolt said:
German and Scandinavian cars tend to prefer the passenger side too. And the Honda I used to have had the filler on the driver's side.

Personally, I prefer it on the passenger side. That way I can pull up close to the pump but still open my driver's door all the way without hitting anything.

ZV
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It doesn't really bug me either way, except it messes with my habits. My most recent cars have had it on the driver's side. If I get a rental that has it on the passenger side I'll constantly pull up to the wrong side of the pump.
 
Interesting fact... the filler cap is always on the opposite side from the exhaust (unless you have dual exhausts or a license plate cap obviously)
 
lol my daily driver for a short time last year was a 1965 chrysler newport with a 383,the gas cap on the big chrysler cars was behind the license plates hell i think till the 1980s if i remember right.

I found it nice in fact,but you end up taking up more of the parking lot at the gas station,between you and your land yacht vehicle...its why a 25 foot chrysler doesn't exist any more.:awe:
 
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