{"id":14439,"date":"2026-10-12T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/?p=14439"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:00:01","slug":"why-are-gas-tanks-located-on-different-sides-in-various-cars-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/?p=14439","title":{"rendered":"Why are Gas Tanks Located on Different Sides in Various Cars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever pulled into a gas station and realized the fuel door is on the opposite side from the pump? It may seem random, but there is a practical reason. **\u201cThere is no single industry-wide rule requiring the fuel filler to be on one particular side.\u201d** Automakers can choose the left or right side based on the vehicle\u2019s design, engineering, safety, and manufacturing needs.<\/p>\n<p>A car\u2019s underbody is packed with.. <a href=\"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/?p=13134\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever pulled into a gas station and realized the fuel door is on the opposite side from the pump? It may seem random, but there&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mtsp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14440,"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions\/14440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}