locking fuel door
 

My 2005 Toyota Tacoma does not have a locking fuel door or cap. Aftermarket locking gas caps cause the "check engine " light to come on. Are there any fuel door locks available? I know at one time Tacomas had a locking fuel door.

Check with your dealer and see if their parts department can order you a locking gas cap... It might be an OEM accessory that they can order for you.

-Jay

my first thought :thumbup:

The locking door on my dad's '02 Tundra doesn't look any different than a small lock that can be bought at Home Depot. Perhaps you could rig one of those in? It wouldn't have to be extremely secure, just enough for someone looking at it to decide to steal from the next vehicle.

Do you have a lot of gas stolen?

Maybe you could use a lock like is used on a tool box or gun cabinet. Beware though in some parts of the country people are starting to drill holes in gas tanks using electric drills. Doesn't sound like a healthy occupation. Just one spark and .....

a ice pick has worked for years,,,you ain't going to stop everything

yea, these lockin fuel doors can be pried open with a screwdriver... lockign caps are good but like previous posts have said today its quicker to drill a hole or icepic it...

todays tanks and necks make it really hard to siphon anything.

My locking gas cap.
 

Since gas broke 4 dollars, 5 of my neighbors have had 5 to 15 gallons sucked out of their tanks, the worst being my neighbors BMW. They used a claw hammer to pop the gas door, denting the quater panel and beercanning the gas door.

My local parts place was sold out of locking gas caps, so on a trip to Phillie, I stopped at Strauss Discount Auto (straussauto.com) and for $18 I bought a Motorad locking gas cap. It locks and the caps spins around, unlocked you can crank down on the cap. 5 tank fulls of the gas and no lights have been thrown.

Around here they tap a hole directly into the gas tank.

You can have a magnet switch put on the fuel door for your car alarm. Also get a tilt switch. If enough fuel is removed it will tilt the car more than the necessary 1 degree to set off the alarm. Gas weighs approx 8 lbs per gallon.

Sorry to bring up an old topic, but someone attempte to steal the gas out of my beater Honda sometime last night. I found the gas door ajar and the cap missing. Of course I found this after all the parts stores have closed, so I had to park it in the driveway with the lights on it tonight. All the cars get locking caps tomorrow!

Heh I suppose if nothing else the reason for having a locking gas cap is so that it can't come up missing :p

Because I agree on the siphoning, there's a ball-type vent inside most filler hoses that should block fuel from coming out the cap in case the car were to roll over, this has been a standard for some time and this also prevents any rubber or plastic lines intended for siphoning to get far enough down in there.

But I have locking caps myself, just for peace of mind.
As for drilling a hole that is stupid, more so because of the damage and the wasted fuel, there's no way a thief has enough container to hold whatever comes out so more than likely they steal a few gallons and the rest goes to waste...
Environmental hazards aside this bit of moronism makes the entire car useless...
If I were a judge I'd be for throwing the book at this kind of thief.

Do you think thieves are really concerned about the environment OR the car thier stealing from?:p

I have a locking cap on my chevette (found it in the spare tire storage area, new never used, even have the recipt in the box that was bought 3 months after the car was bought new:D )

i use it because i doubt that car has the check ball thing that and it has a really short filler neck so most anything can fit lol

I couple years ago we weren't using my wife's car so I thought I would siphon the gas out of it and use it in one of the other cars, but I couldn't even get a 1/4" hose into the tank. I don't know how long they have been using this technology, but it is a 1987 Chevy Celebrity.

ya im not sure when they started doing that check ball thing, i would assume sometime in the 70's when all the emissions/safety stuff got important...

My 1981 Buick has it too... I don't need a locking cap though as most young punk kids who would tamper with it would not be able to find the filler on a 1981 Buick.

-Jay

i loved those fillers behind the license plates on old cars :) our 77 chevy caprice had that

My Buick has it, our old 1981 AMC Spirit did, Dad had a 79 Impala from his company in 79-80. What I like best about the filler behind the plate is that it does not matter what side I pull up to the pump. Right or left. I've even backed up to a pump once when a station was really busy. Its really easy to fuel the car.

-Jay

Years ago I had a owned a rental next to the house I lived in myself.
One night I walked out on the front porch to enjoy the quiet and damn if my next door tenant wasn't crouched behind my vehicle with a hose in my tank just a fillin' up a 5 gallon can......AWKWARD!!!!!
I didn't say anything then I just raised his rent up $100/mo and told him how expensive the locking gas caps were.
I never got over being pissed off about that tho. I often encouraged him to move out by offering him a "relocation rebate" of $500. But then the Poor bastard got mouth cancer and died. I think it was from chewing copenhagen. So besides all the free gas (who knows how much over the years) he got about a year of free rent.
I'm still pissed off tho.