This Toyota Wish was treated better than I was when growing up. Watch the video to see why.

What happened?

At Gelang Patah R&R, a Toyota Wish was spotted being given some special treatment while refuelling. It was gently rocked by its driver and assisted by an attendant in a tender effort to quench the car’s thirst for fuel.  I’m jealous. Why couldn’t my parents treat me this way? 

Looking at this did make me curious though. Does shaking the car do anything at all? 

Short answer: No.

Nope. First, your car has a fixed capacity fuel tank (duh), if it is not fixed and can somehow fill up indefinitely, please contact us at [email protected].

However, the theory is that when filling up petrol there are air pockets that form during the process. This reduces the amount of petrol that one can pump into their car, wasting time and money. Think of it like a soft drink can, where there’s always air in the can so the can is never truly full. 

However, rocking isn’t the way to solve this. In CNA’s Talking Point episode 32, the director of Mister Garage, Vincent Emmanuel Lee debunked this myth, saying “When we pump the petrol into the tank, it creates foam and vapour (which) occupies the tank. When we wait for the vapour and foam to dissipate, that's when you can pump more petrol into the tank.”  This makes shaking ineffective as everything is already at the top instead of within the liquid. 

Online chatter

Back to our usual Facebook clownery, people made fun of the shaking and rightfully deemed it useless. 

However, some people took offense to the footage being recorded in the first place, saying the person who took the footage had nothing better to do as the driver did nothing illegal.

Writer’s thoughts: I was treated very well as a kid I just needed to get your attention for this article lol.

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