Eliminate Gas Cap to Body Contact During Refueling

[SweetRed04]

I always hated the way my gas cap banged the body on my '04 during refueling. It has been filled many times in the 32,800 miles I have driven it.

Putting a small 3M wall hanging hook on the fuel door provides an easily removable solution to hold the cap away from the body during refueling. The tether is looped onto the hook during refueling.

I am away from my home base so I don't have a picture handy, but the thread about the '08's missing the cap tether prompted me to post....

On '08s you might be able to use a pair of hooks to hold the cap during refueling on the fuel door (one on the door and one on the cap).

 

[alpine7822]

Some pics when you have a chance would be great as I have and 04 and hate the fuel cap issue as well.

 

[Hamrhead]

My '06 has no tether.

All I need to do is NOT lose it!

 

[MikeR]

You should have a ittle hook on your gas door. My 05 has a very small channel, it is for the gas cap teather. It never touches the body.

 

[SweetRed04]

You should have a ittle hook on your gas door. My 05 has a very small channel, it is for the gas cap teather. It never touches the body.

I looked and never found any such thing on my '04....

 

[Nader]

Yeah mine had one too. I did catch it when it fell off so i presume many fall off without noticing. I just used some double-sided tape to hold it in place again. Thats all it is is a small platic hook.

You should have a ittle hook on your gas door. My 05 has a very small channel, it is for the gas cap teather. It never touches the body.

 

[Westxsrt10]

I bought a 'Gas Cap Caddy' off Ebay....i had to grind 1/2" of plastic off the lower right side to fit inside the door. 08 Viper Coupe.
eBay Motors: Gas Cap Caddy Holder Tether Hanger Universal (item 120215644279 end time Jun-24-08 14:01:13 PDT)

 

[Fast Too]

No tether here on my 06 either. Don't see the need for one. How does one forget to put the cap back on anyway. I have never done that........on any car. Not to say I haven't done other stupid things though.

 

[Kenneth Krieger]

I guess for us OCDer's, we have to have everything right on the car, and the "no touchie on the paint thing' haunts us. My simple solution was to have an old sock under the drivers seat, and when I get gas, I just slip the toe of the sock over the gas cap and let it hang. Costs me NOTHING, and doesn't change anything on the car. I just can't put a "hook" inside the gas cap......seems just a little cheezie to me, but I do understand that it saves the paint. Just one of the other OCD things for me, can't say that it's the same for everyone else.

 

[SweetRed04]

PICTURES:

Note there is NO place to loop the cap tether from the factory. I bought this 3M removable hook (8 or 10 of them!) for only a couple of bucks at Wal-Mart....

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[SweetRed04]

PICTURES:

Note there is NO place to loop the cap tether from the factory. I bought this 3M removable hook (8 or 10 of them!) for only a couple of bucks at Wal-Mart....

BTW, I KNOW the car is dirty. It was driven in the rain to work before I took off on vacation and I just got back a few hours ago and haven't had time to wash it yet!!!

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[toomanymodz]

My 06 came factory with a little hook for the tether. By the way, wash your car.

 

[GTS Bruce]

***? My gen 2 doesn't have a tether. I remove the cap and set it on the pump. Just cut off or pull off and throw away the stupid tether. GTS Bruce

 

[Timmer]

2008 factory gas cap clip...

(didn't realize it was there before this thread)

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[Flexx91]

PICTURES:

Note there is NO place to loop the cap tether from the factory. I bought this 3M removable hook (8 or 10 of them!) for only a couple of bucks at Wal-Mart....

BTW, I KNOW the car is dirty. It was driven in the rain to work before I took off on vacation and I just got back a few hours ago and haven't had time to wash it yet!!!

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The way this car looks, it shouldn't matter if the gas cap scrapes the paint or not.

 

[SweetRed04]

The way this car looks, it shouldn't matter if the gas cap scrapes the paint or not.

I guess you have time to wash your car every time you drive it to work and it rains.

We've had a LOT of rain here (Cedar Falls, IA; made CNN and national news) with major flooding, so I wasn't able to wash it sooner.

It IS washed as of today.

I was asked to post a picture and I did as soon as I could.

I am in the snow (salted roads) belt and drive my car over 10,000 miles annually despite having only 8 or 9 months a year to enjoy my car.

I drive when possible and wash when able.....

 

[Flexx91]

I guess you have time to wash your car every time you drive it to work and it rains.

We've had a LOT of rain here (Cedar Falls, IA; made CNN and national news) with major flooding, so I wasn't able to wash it sooner.

It IS washed as of today.

I was asked to post a picture and I did as soon as I could.

I am in the snow (salted roads) belt and drive my car over 10,000 miles annually despite having only 8 or 9 months a year to enjoy my car.

I drive when possible and wash when able.....

Don't take it so hard. We old heads sometimes like to apply a little 'abusive humor' in our posts - but its all for fun.

 

[rcl4668]

2008 factory gas cap clip...

(didn't realize it was there before this thread)

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Interesting; my 2008 vert does not have a tether for the gas cap at all. It just detaches leaving it far easier to lose the cap entirely.

/Rich

 

[SweetRed04]

Don't take it so hard. We old heads sometimes like to apply a little 'abusive humor' in our posts - but its all for fun.

Thanks!! Sometimes I am wound a little too tight!!!

 

[OKViper]

I guess for us OCDer's, we have to have everything right on the car, and the "no touchie on the paint thing' haunts us. My simple solution was to have an old sock under the drivers seat, and when I get gas, I just slip the toe of the sock over the gas cap and let it hang. Costs me NOTHING, and doesn't change anything on the car. I just can't put a "hook" inside the gas cap......seems just a little cheezie to me, but I do understand that it saves the paint. Just one of the other OCD things for me, can't say that it's the same for everyone else.

I'm still laughing at how someone that keeps an 'old sock' under their seat and actually pulls it out when they get gas to put it over the gas cap at the station thinks a small hook that sticks to the inside of the fuel door is "cheezie"...