OMG 1 shot out toward a gas attendant!! Quick change the industry:what:

Next, Ford will develop "door-less" vehicles so we can no longer pinch our fingers in them.

 

nothing wrong with that...

on the good side, it eliminates the 'check gas cap' MIL
on the bad side.. you can't just screw it tighter if it does fail to close all the way.

 

PLUS... how can we lock them to prevent gas theives?

 

There are two main reasons you will see a move to this by the industry:

1. Environmental issues
2. The "greying" of America*

*The average age of the average American is climbing. There will be more and more designs catering to this need. Many people with arthritis cannot open a gas cap easily.

 

PLUS... how can we lock them to prevent gas theives?

um, lock the gas door perhaps?

not like you can just syphon out gas anyways.. so maybe you need protection from people taking a pee in your tank?

 

There are two main reasons you will see a move to this by the industry:

1. Environmental issues
2. The "greying" of America*

*The average age of the average American is climbing. There will be more and more designs catering to this need. Many people with arthritis cannot open a gas cap easily.

oh yeah 48 other states you have to pump your own gas

Then again I do pump my own in Jersey, but thats only a Military post

 

Sounds like a Permacap.... that one you can buy at BAT.

 

If you are physically unable to remove the fuel cap on your car, you probably shouldn't be driving it.

 

Sounds like a Permacap.... that one you can buy at BAT.

yep. you can get the same thing at Advance Auto now too, but made by Stant.

 

If you are physically unable to remove the fuel cap on your car, you probably shouldn't be driving it.

Yeah, let's get all the "crips" off the streets. :screwy:

 

If you are physically unable to remove the fuel cap on your car, you probably shouldn't be driving it.

Yeah, let's get all the "crips" off the streets. :screwy:

You guys are too funny. :lol::lol:

But seriously, I have to agree with Max. If you don't have the physical strength to open a gas cap, I'm not so sure I want you behind the controlls of a 2 ton hunk of steel.

 

Sounds like a Permacap.... that one you can buy at BAT.

yep. you can get the same thing at Advance Auto now too, but made by Stant.

You mean the one that is bound to trigger your "check gas cap" light?

 

You mean the one that is bound to trigger your "check gas cap" light?

I have a superior 2000 model year car... no such light.

 

sigh, crips? so anyone with arthritis is a cripple now and shouldn't drive? not being strong enough to open the cap isn't the only reason to design this. many adults who are not elderly get arthritis. i think it is a good decision.

have had the permacap on two foci for a year each and no check gas cap light has ever come on.

 

I have a superior 2000 model year car... no such light.

That's all right. I've got one better. I lost the gas cap on my truck and now just drive around with a rag stuffed into the filler tube.

 

That's all right. I've got one better. I lost the gas cap on my truck and now just drive around with a rag stuffed into the filler tube.

Would that be considered a wick?:lol:

 

*The average age of the average American is climbing. There will be more and more designs catering to this need. Many people with arthritis cannot open a gas cap easily.

If you are too arthritic to open a gas cap, should you really be driving a car?

 

OMG!

I hope you melonheads that are bagging on people with arthritis are aflicted with it VERY SOON!

And when you are, please stop driving your car, even though the level of that condition that would make it difficult or impossible to remove your gas cap, would not keep you from safely operating your vehicle.

Melonheads. Ignorant melonheads.

 

I don't see why they need to cater to people with arthritis. Maybe the upscale car or two, but not all of them.....

 

I don't see why they need to cater to people with arthritis. Maybe the upscale car or two, but not all of them.....

I don't believe they are 'catering' to people with arthritis. They are making a change that is apparently better for the environment, while at the same time less work for the arthritic...

but my money is on the fact that a few hundred thousand gascaps a year equals more money in the stockholder's pockets.

*my rant was about ignorance, that's all*

 

Very true, gas caps are like 8-15 dollars if I remember from my dodge days.... So yeah. I can see the cost-savings in it. And CARB's supposedly better for the enviorment as well, but I would like to see the proof of it before I say anything more. And I thought there was a system to catch vapors already anyways?

 

If anybody thinks Ford is doing ANYTHING except to save money... I pity your foolishness.

BTW, my 2006 only has the cap, but no little flapper door anymore. Is that normal?

 

flapper door? you mean the one that goes on the body?

 

I don't see why they need to cater to people with arthritis. Maybe the upscale car or two, but not all of them.....

oohh nooooeozzzz they have to because if they don't, then the arthritis ppl are gonna sue sue sue! america.....america.....

 

flapper door? you mean the one that goes on the body?

No, the little metal on that is normally inside the filler neck.