.....and now "Fuel Door" sign!

Picked up my STi8 a few weeks ago and over the weekend noticed the words "Fuel Door >" written above the fule gauge.

"Ah, a warning light if I leave the fuel door open, how clever!" I thought. Popped the fuel door, no light . Consulted the owners manual and apparently all it is there to do is to indicate that the fuel door is on the right hand side of the car - hence the arrow!!!

Surely this can only be a useful feature on a hire car?

Given the amount of times I have had to fill up so far, I soon learnt on which side the fuel cap was - is this the most useless feature of the new Impreza??

Peter

 

Wish I had that feature, I always forget due to having 2 cars with the fuel filler at different sides.

Good feature imho

 

its probably a miss translation most probably to indicate the fuel is off "out the door" hence low mpg

 

Its been like that since MY01. Very useful when you first pick the car up though

 

LOL @ Dizzy:
Alcazar

 

Yeah, that one beat the stuff out of me. Thought "oh, it'll be a light telling me when the door's open".

Didn't do it on mine, and didn't do it on Rum*s, so I assumed it was just something silly.

Didn't realise there was a reason for the arrow!

 

Am I the only one who finds the bright switch useful then?

Logically it should have been called the "Not-Dim-when-lights-are-on" switch, but I guess they ran out of space on the dash. It's probably a very simple Japanese character....

 

Moving the bright switch onto the indicator stalk was a sneaky move.

On the test drive, I didn't think there was one

 

Yeah, I almost didnt buy my Sti8 coz I couldnt find the switch

~Jules

 

I was wondering about that