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Subject:Re: Alternative to locking gas cap?
From:Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Date:Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:02:51 -0700

last time I had a locking vanagon gas cap and no key for it.......
just use a screwdriver on it.
it was like 'nothing' to break the mechanism inside,
then from then on, it looks like a locking cap, and is one, but any
screwdriver is the key.
I like to keep the appearance of the large round flat stock gas cap.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Miller" <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: Alternative to locking gas cap?

> As long as you have a screwdriver you have a key. You do carry a
> screwdriver, don't you, in the complete Snap-On tool kit we all carry?
>
>
> On 8/14/09 7:53 AM, "Matt Sutton" <msutts@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Somehow, I managed to lose my gas cap. Is there an aftermarket
>> alternative?
>> I'd actually prefer to have a non-locking one; the idea of losing a gas
>> cap
>> key and not being able to fill up is too annoying to contemplate.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt Sutton
>> 88 GL
>> Brooklyn NY