I played around with the display icons but didn’t get anywhere. I called and left a message with the salesman at the dealership and of course he called me back after I was already out of the car. He explained what I needed to do. The next time I was in the car, I gave it a shot. I went through all of the steps. The last one says “Automatic door unlock”. I press it and it just shows that it’s on. There are no other options. So next time I drive by the dealership, I’m going to pull in and have him show me.
That’s too bad. Good luck with it
Perhaps you have GFI breakers? Have you looked?
My key less entry works like so
One Press - Unlocks driver door
Two Press - Unlocks ALL doors
Three Press - Unlocks Trunk
Seems normal right?
Well if you press the door unlock button when the door is already open it will actually activate the alarm automatically for some reason. Guess what happens if say I’m coming from the grocery store with my cart to my car, my girlfriend tells me to unlock the door so she can get in and she opens the driver door while I’m still pressing the button 2 more times to pop the trunk?
Got a new one.
I just came back from a trip where I spent three nights in a Holiday Inn Express. Like many hotels, they have switched to providing soap, shampoo, conditioner, and body lotion in pump bottles secured to the walls of the bathroom and shower.
The problem is that the nozzles point straight out instead of curving downwards. If a pump nozzle gets partially clogged, the contents are ejected at high pressure in a horizontal direction. Hold your left hand up to pump some soap with your right hand and you end up with a long stream of liquid soap on your arm and shirt. Or it shoots all over your toiletries bag.
The nozzles should curve down instead. Plus, I need to clean each nozzle with a toothpick before I use any of them. I have the same problem with my pump dispensers at home, but the nozzles point down. My hand soap ends up in the sink…not across my bathrobe.
I keep reading this but not one car I have owned nor any borrowed car I have driven has had this feature.
Interesting.
My 1998 Ford van has it. My 2007 Subaru has it. (The fill caps are on opposite sides.)
It’s pretty inconspicuous – are you sure you just haven’t noticed it?
Or has it disappeared again on newer vehicles?
I agree that the indicator of which direction (left or right) the fill cap is on is subtle. It looks like this and it’s been on every car I’ve owned or rented.
Since I’ve read about it I’ve expressively looked. Now It might be because my one remaining ICE vehicle is a 1994 Suburban and the one gotten rid of a year ago was a 2001 Acura, replaced by an EV with no symbol at all.
However at Burning Man every year I drive new rental vehicles variously from Ford, GM, and Jeep and none of them have had it. The last time I personally rented a car was 2008 and that was a PT Cruiser.
When I owned a PT Cruiser, it had the little arrow.
I can’t find it right now, but I’m pretty sure that there was a discussion about the filler arrow on this board recently in which someone said that some cars don’t have the triangular arrow, but instead indicate the filler side by which side the handle is placed on the gas pump icon. Or maybe I dreamed it.
I remember cars not having the pump side indictors in, say, the 1960’s or '70’s or maybe the '80’s. Don’t know whether my memory’s correct, or if so when I started seeing it.
I’m pretty sure my 1995 Saturn didn’t have the arrow, but you said your 1998 Ford does. So I would guess probably some time in the mid to late 1990s.
According to this website, the idea was conceived in 1986 and first started appearing in cars in the fall of 1988.
One would think that any car manufactured after 2000 would certainly have that feature, but maybe not.
Googling, someone on Reddit said that on some cars, whether the gas pump icon is on the left or right side of the gauge indicates the side of the car the filler door is located.
That Ford van is a pretty basic model, for what that’s worth; designed as a work truck, and if I was told correctly started its life as a repairman’s vehicle for Sears. (Most likely a repairman. I had to have blocks added to the pedals as otherwise I’m too short to use them properly; though admittedly I’m short even for a woman, at least for a woman born after the middle of the 20th century in the USA.)
Wouldn’t an EV still have the charging port on one side, though? Or do they usually just put in multiple charging ports?
Not specifically for that, but I did see that of the two sinks in the master bath, that each have an outlet next to them, on is a GFI, the other not. Must be the same circuit. Not to concerned about it really.
I did notice today that There was an outlet between two doors.The wall between the doors is about 1 foot long. Umm…
Oh yeah, I think that’s what I was (mis)remembering. That seems less intuitive than the arrow though. I wonder why a manufacturer would choose to do it that way.
If it really concerns you get a lamp or something and plug it into the non GFCI outlet then trip the test button on the GFCI outlet. If the lamp goes out, you’re good - both outlets are protected. If not, depending on your concern level, you might want to look into fixing it.