{"id":14648,"date":"2026-10-20T14:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/?p=14648"},"modified":"2026-10-20T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:29:11","slug":"why-are-gas-tanks-located-on-different-sides-in-various-cars-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/?p=14648","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.<br \/>\nA car\u2019s underbody is packed with.. <a href=\"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/?p=13956\">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":14649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648","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=14648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14650,"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions\/14650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtspminds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}