Is there no possibility that you nodded off and forgot to replace the cap at
last fillup and only noticed it now?  The main reason I have a locking is
that I regularly leave the non-locking variety at various and sunder filling
stations.  If I leave the ignition keys in the cap I have a real hard time
forgetting the cap.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Mark A Kippert
|Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:13 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: Non-locking gas cap
|
|Glad I caught this thread. I noticed my gas cap missing from my '86 a
|couple weeks ago (currently not roadworthy due to falling off exhaust so
|it's been parked since late December). I mean, who the heck would bother
|walking up the drive next to my house just to swipe the gas cap? Sadly my
|next thought was 'another Vanagon owner'. And here I thought ALL Vanagon
|owners were trustworthy by default. Oh well...I guess every family has it's
|black sheep.
|
|Mark K
|1986 GL/2WD/4SPD
|1990 Carat/2WD/Auto
|
|
|
|
|On Feb 19, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Mike S wrote:
|
|> I discovered this while picking up some bargains at rockauto.com. They
|> had a Stant 11808 "fuel pump cap" listed on "wholesaler closeout" for
|> $3.41. I figured that might be a weird description for a gas cap, and I
|> was right. The Stant cap was actually the VW OEM one mentioned above,
|> in Stant packaging. Stant probably made them for VW (marked Made in the
|> USA!), because the Westmoreland plant was making Rabbits at the time.
|>
|> It looks like they still have at least 1, if you do a part number
|> search for 11808. Down to $3.39 now.