2005 Subaru Baja.
No lock, no latch. Open to anyone.
We visited my brother in Seattle for a week or so a couple of summers ago. Since we flew out there, and he lives close enough to work to bike there, he let us borrow his car to do sightseeing, etc. while we were there.
We took a day trip to the Olympia peninsula one day, and had to stop for gas on the way. We pulled up to the gas pump, then spent about 15 minutes trying to find the lever inside the car to pop open the gas cap cover. I finally called him to find out where it was, and he said that all we needed to do was push on the cover itself. :smack: There was no internal lever or lock of any kind.
I don’t remember what kind of car it was, but it definitely wasn’t more than about three or four years old.
I keep telling everybody to invest in gas-tank booby traps. Nobody listens.
why do i keep hearing the OP title in the voice of the South Park people who lost their jobs to temporal immagrants? 
“They tuk’er jobs!”
“They Siphoned’ur Gas!”
96 Saturn has the lever down on the floor by the drivers seat that opens the flap.
02 Land Rover Freelander had locking gascap that you have to use the ingition key to open. Needless to say, I never forget to put the gascap back on.
Cheap gas. Untill, oh about last month, gas was pretty cheap, and not worth hassle and risk of getting caught stealing.
I think the answer to this is obvious. One gas can full of gasoline hidden well and one gas can containing a fine mixture of gasoline, water, and sugar kept in plain view. Stick it to the man (or thief, whatever)!
2000 BMW Z3- no locking gas cap or fancy doo dad to keep it closed.
That’ll be something to see. I hope they’ve got a camera rolling when the propane goes boom.
Or did you mean the other wrong tank?
See, that’s funny, because I’ve got a 95 Impreza and it’s got one of those levers inside you have to pull.
mix in some diesel and some vegetable oil as well, and you have a guaranteed gasoline engine killer…
He is very stupid and deserves all losses. Hope he enjoyed asking “Would you like fries with that?”
My company has had incidents of gas being siphoned from work trucks. It is a nationwide company and it wasn’t happening in just one city.
My car, a 04 Honda Civic EX, coupe has the tank door release on the inside of the car. However, my husbands 04 Toyota Tacoma does not have a locking gas cap or a locking tank door release.
Veddy interesting. I have a 2003 Subaru Outback and mine is locked with a lever inside.
Mr. Kiminy just buys a gallon or so at a time for the lawnmower. If he buys more than will fit in the lawmower, it goes into his car (which has an inside latch to open the gas cap).
The lawnmower does a few runs around the yard on one tankful, and I don’t like the idea of storing gasoline in the shed that is only a couple of yards from our bedroom wall. (This is a statement from a gal who used to drive a '65 VW Bug with a five-gallon spare gas can AND a full gas tank under the front hood of the car.)
:eek: Is that a current event, or something that happened in the '70s which I was too young to take in?
I am probably going to hell for this (among many other things) but I plan to suggest this to my husband when he wakes up. I’m sitting here, giggling at the thought of any thief who stole THIS can.
I think I found somthing better than a locking gas cap.
I was at Frye’s Electronics today and picked up an itty bitty window alarm. Its the kind that has a magnetic link, when the link is broken the 90 dB alarm sounds. It has an on off switch, so he can turn it off while driving, then on when the truck will be parked for a while.
Its small enough to fit inside the housing where the gas cap lives. It may take some modifying to work, but i think I can.
It may not be loud enough for us to hear in the house, but it should scare off any potential siphoners.
And it was only $5.00.
I’m so smart 