and half of them will work with a screw driver.

try that sometime, if you don't have a key.
just use  stout screw driver - lots of them will unlock that way.
without a lot of force too.
not all, but some will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake de Villiers" <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: Gas cap key photo

> What year van Steve?  My '86 uses the ignition key and my '84 has a
> separate
> smaller key.
>
> Jake
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:15 AM, zzyzx <zzyzx9@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible for anyone to take a photo of their gas cap key next to a
>> ruler and email it to me.
>> The first 6 characters of the email address are reversed to foil the
>> email address sniffing bots...
>> 9xzyzz@gmail.com
>> Steve
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
>
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>
> Crescent Beach, BC
>
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