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Old Apr 18, 2007 | 11:28 PM
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Default Re: Nothing last forever

Originally Posted by AMGLover
It ain't the dangle! Mine broke at the attachment point to the fuel flap. I see a design flaw in that the button that holds the cap does not rotate so (her in NJ where you can't pump your own gas) if the cap is put back in a certain way by the gas jock and the ring does not rotate it will pinch under the cap...go see if your rubber is pinched!

- ej
No, mine broke at its base. It looks fine where it's attached to the ring that's just under the actual cap.
It just looks like the rubber crumbled, or was torn away.
Of course I'm no "Polymer" scientest, but I think it simply boils down to, "They don't make em like they use to."

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