I think just about everything carries the California warning!
Some other strange labels:
On the label of a jar of peanuts—Warning produced in a plant that processes nuts, including peanuts.
A brand of butter was recalled because it did not state it was processed from milk.
A letter writer to our local newspaper wanted his car to be recalled due to brake dust on his alloy rims!
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Do EVs have 2 sided power plugs?
Yeah it has gotten out of hand, nobody hardly pays any attention to warning labels anymore…
I am so tired of seeing the rubber stamping of “Attention California Customers - WARNING: Cancer and Reproductive Harm - www.P65Warnings.ca. gov” or similar…
A joke a friend used to say, it’s only harmful if you are a laboratory rat in Cali…
I am surprised anyone is even alive in Cali…lol
I drive a Chevy Volt, a plugin hybrid. So both electric and gas. The charge port is on the forward left fender. The gas fill is on the rear right fender!
My parents’ '83 Olds had the gas filler behind the rear license plate. It was a royal pain to gas up.
They also previously had a '56 Olds and a '65 Olds, both of which had the gas filler access on the side. After all these years I don’t recall, though, which side the filler was on for either of those two cars.
There is clearly no standardization.
My PHEV has the charge port on the right rear fender, and the gas fill is on the left rear fender. Since I typically buy gas only once every 2.5-3 months, I usually have to look at the little arrow on the instrument panel to remind myself where the gas filler is.
If buyers didn’t sue manufacturers every time something went wrong this wouldn’t be necessary. A simple way to look at it is that manufacturers are experts in their product and know everything and that buyers are not experts and know nothing. You’d think that anyone using a ladder would know enough to place on solid footing. That was no defense in court and ladder manufacturers had to pay for not having instructive labels. McDonald’s coffee is hot. Duh! Yet they paid out big time for not having the lid labeled as such.
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I still miss that tooth paste pump container instead of a tube. All because one guy couldn’t get the last drop of tooth paste out.
Ok let’s be honest. We know there are chronic complainers out there and our share of people with no common sense. But wouldn’t you expect a judge to have a little common sense and just case dismissed, and plaintive will pay court and lawyer fees? Well wouldn’t your? Four years of college, then law school and private practice and they are this clueless? Sorry clueless, didn’t mean you.
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The amount of misinformation regarding that case is truly staggering, and most people have got an entirely-wrong understanding of that case. We studied it in my Torts class, and McDonald’s corporate policies prior to–and during–that particular case were simply wrong. And, I say that as someone who holds a lot of shares of McDonald’s stock.
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Had to remind me. We were having thanksgiving dinner and my 85 year old grandmother was topping coffee cups up. She went to fill the cup of my godfathers, missed and poured the coffee in his lap. She looked and said oh you don’t have any and he said no thanks and she did it again. Being the great guy he was he just smiled and took the abuse. Never even got a bill for cleaning his suit.
Or a 58 Chevy or practically any 1950’s Cadillac.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned the tri-five Chevy’s fill location. When I was about 12, I would pump gas at my uncle’s gas station. It was fun for me at that age and the tips were good. the first time I seen this I thought it was pretty cool.
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Look above, it’s there, along with several other concealed caps.
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Hidden fuel caps: we need more examples of vehicles with only one fuel fill location.
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As I mentioned (and illustrated) earlier, concealed fuel fillers were GM’s great engineering advance 
in the 1955-58 era.
My most recent post currently appears FOUR times. This site is really screwed-up.
I stand corrected. I did not see that before with the page jumping. hell, I just went back and didn’t even see my post until I refreshed the page a couple of times. and the other post with the tri-five chevy’s was there sometimes and sometimes it wasn’t
you can’t even post a like correctly. sometimes it doesn’t do anything and sometimes it posts the like to a totally different post.
I tried DDG. I went to the site and put in car talk and it did not help. unless I have to download it and then use it.
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Hmmm, I think my previous post about where the gas filler was located on my parents’ 1956 Olds 88 4d sedan and on their 1965 Olds 98 4d sedan was in error. Apparently the gas cap was not on the side of either car. That’s what I get for trying to dredge up early childhood memories. 
I remember my 64 Pontiac Tempest having a rear fuel door in the body above the license plate. Much less splashback.
My 84 Corvette had it fuel door on top of the rear deck. The C4 was the last Vette to have a rear mounted tank. C5s and newer have side saddle tanks behind the driver under the floor. Most cars have tanks there, too, under the rear seats. It allows more rear crush room.
@VDCdriver is right, there is MUCH more to lawsuits than the public ever hears. The Pinto gas tank thing… fact is it was as safe if not more so than its competition. But a memo from an engineer made the case for the plantiff. GM lost a.multi billion dollar case of a 15 year old mid size car bursting into flames after being hit by a drunk driver at 55 mph. The 7 passengers in that 6 passenger car were burned but all survived. GM lost and now fuel tanks are mid-car.
Post fourteen!
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