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In my experience that's only true in TV adverts from my childhood. I've never had one unable to reach in real life.

Apparently you have a tiny car? I’ve never had a vehicle (even a small Subaru) that they reached.

I should clarify. The hose probably reaches when the rear of the car is adjacent to where the hose connects to the pump.

(I only drive my normal passenger cars, not trucks.)

But I'm me not in the habit of doing that, because it doesn't usually matter for me.

Try in Europe

I'm in Europe, in case you're on the "wrong" side of the pump you just have to make sure that you park the car a little further, so you'd get the pump hose through the back and on to the other side without scratching the car's paint. That's all it is to it. I'm from Romania and I've driven (and hence re-fueled) my car all the way from Bretagne, France, to Peloponnese, Greece, never had a problem.

I also don't know anything about any "arrow" signalling anything in my dashboard, maybe it's only on the US-made cars, I wouldn't know cause I generally know on which side I have to fuel my car.

I'm also in Europe, I drive a ford, and the only fuel arrow on my dash actually points to the wrong side for filling

Petrol or diesel?

You have a car that runs on raw petrol?

I do not know where you are in the world but in the homeland of the English language, Britain and most of its direct (former!) colonies, "petrol" is the stuff cars and motorbikes run on and "diesel" is the stuff agricultural vehicles and heavy plant (lorries, buses) runs on. "Gas" is a phase of matter along with "liquid", "solid", and "plasma" and that is all the bare noun means. "Natural gas", and the obsolete "coal gas"/"town gas", are fuels, but for heating/cooking/light not vehicles as a rule, but generally we'd talk about propane, butane, etc.

We never, ever use "gasoline" or the Germanic "benzene" for this. Benzene is a specific chemical here, never ever a fuel.

Here in Australia 'gas' as a fuel always means LPG (liquified petroleum gas = propane/butane). And it is getting rarer for cars.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/lpg-cars-disappearing...

Hence the expression "now you're cooking with gas"

That must confuse the hell out of the yanks

Oh I'm a week late but diesel

Agreed about never having a problem with this, but our cars either have the arrow, or the hose in the icon is on the side of the car that has the tank cover. This has been true for all cars I've seen here.

I live in Europe, never encountered a problem.

I'm in Europe, the hoses always reach to the other side of the car just fine. Or maybe you know, remember that Europe isn't one country and actually say where you are.

Try in The World

I live in europe. It does reach the other side.

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