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How can you tell what side a gas tank is on without sticking your head out the window?

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The cars dashboard will either have an arrow next to the gas tank icon which points to the correct side or the gas tank icon's hose will indicate which side the tankis on; works 100% of the time that I have checked.

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The answer above is not true. Sorry - there is no simple way to tell which side it's on, you are going to have to think for yourself.

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icon.asp

First answer by RockinR1974. Last edit by RockinR1974. Contributor trust: 0 [recommend contributor ]. Question popularity: 1 [recommend question].

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