Design, or the thing with the fuel filler flap
11/30/2018
Sometimes designers have good ideas, but the execution or rather the design leads to operating errors. An interesting example of this is the Audi 50. The designers gave it elegant round interior air vents, clearly visible and integrated into the C-pillar on both sides.
Inexperienced people who perhaps only borrowed the small car thought that this was the fuel filler flap. However, this could also be opened by using considerable force - and this is said to have happened.
In fact, there was also a fuel filler flap in front of the right rear wheel, positioned surprisingly low. This was the only way to get fuel into the tank. But you had to know about it, or walk around the car at least once at the filling station ...
A detailed report on the Audi 50 will follow soon ...
P.S. A similar problem, albeit in a slightly different form, also existed in the first Smart ForTwo ...
