Problem with my fuel door. Help!
 

This is hard to describe, and I don't do the photo upload deal, but I'll try to describe the problem...
After fueling up, I couldn't close the fuel door. The inside of the door has a long plastic thing which was bumping in to a metal pin, preventing it from closing. I'd never noticed ANY of this stuff heretofore, because there was never a problem.

After futzing with it for a minute, I was able to press the metal pin out of the way and get the door closed. The thing that concerns me now is: This pin looks like it's capable of popping up and holding the door shut.

What's going ON here?!?

Re: Problem with my fuel door. Help!
 

It may be a "bug".

Re: Problem with my fuel door. Help!
 

when you lock the doors, a pin locks the fuel door also. try unlocking the doors next time --

Re: Problem with my fuel door. Help!
 

You can't close the lid if you lock the car... that pin sounds like what locks the lid in place so that nobody can pop it open to siphon gas.

Re: Problem with my fuel door. Help!
 

I had that problem once. When I got out to fill up, I instinctively locked the doors. Since the gas door wouldn't open, I unlocked the car with the remote. This allowed the gas door to open, but since I didn't open one of the doors within the 45 second window, the doors automatically relocked. The gas door then would not close until I unlocked the car again.

Re: Problem with my fuel door. Help!
 

Re: Problem with my fuel door. Help!
 

I'll admit it, I did this and was laughing at myself afterwards. The thing about it though, I never lock my doors when I'm gassing up, so maybe that's what threw me off. :rolleyes:

Re: Problem with my fuel door. Help!
 

This has happened to me twice - the last time this past week. In my case, I had put the key fob in my front right pocket like I always do. When I put the nozzle back in the pump, I must have bumped the fob in my pocket, locking the car. The first time I did it, it really threw me, but now I know what I'm doing to cause it.