I think Jason Perkins may have a good point about the use of a locking gas cap. It wont prevent thiefs from taking your car, but if it is just someone taking it for a joy ride, then when they go to fill up the tank so they can continue their joyride, they cant add gas. They will end up stranded somewhere because they cant add fuel, then the car is bound to be found and returned to the owner. While the general idea of putting locking gascaps on cars is making a comeback; on newer cars, the best you can do is have a lock on the gas filler door because because some newer fuel injection systems rely on vacume pressurre in the fuel tank and locking caps have trouble keeping the tank pressurized for some reason(or that is what I have come to understand). That is why so many cars nowadays require you to push a button inside the car to open the fuel fill door rather that allowing you to open it from the outside. I am not completely shure if this is accurate, but that is how a service-writer at a Nissan dealership explained it to me. So a locking gas cap could, theoretically be used as a last line of defence against joy riders because they will get stuck with a delorean whose gas tank cant be refilled Sorry to hear about the thieft, but its bound to turn up. Jonathan Minor(no vin) --- Videobob Moseley <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Unless you have a flap hood, you don't really need a > locking cap. > If they get the hood open, they are already > inside....and you have bigger > problems than > loosing up to 10 gallons of gas. > They will burn the gas when they drive your car off! > - VB > [moderator snip] To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/