If your petrol gauge has been indicating for some time that you should think about a re-fill (say, showing less than ½ the final bar on S2 / S3 gauges), and you choose to ignore it, don’t then also choose to park on a steeply cambered road with the driver side wheels to the kerb.
If you do (as I did), then chances are that when you return later and try to start the engine, you’ll find that what little petrol remains has tilted over to the driver side, leaving the fuel pump starved of fuel.
I’m sure that this is obvious to all, but sadly not to me – had to push the car so the driver side wheels were on the pavement (to the bewilderment of passing pedestrians), to level out the fuel enough to allow me to start it.
Lesson learned - eventually. #schoolboyerror
