fuel flap

[Doggy]

That's brilliant jasper, thank you

[jasper5]

No problem Doggy, your welcome

BTW, the spring I fitted was from a plastic clothes peg, the wooden ones we have are too small in diameter.

Credit to the original poster / inventor of the fix

[mjb]

Credit to the original poster / inventor of the fix

I think that was Supafrisk

[MagicHands]

i think, this not gonna work properly
the "L" legs of that cloth spring not going like OUTSIDE, they going like INSIDE. better thing to fix this problem is spring from hair clipper

[jasper5]

Mine works perfectly every time.

The spring on mine could do with replacing as it's a bit weak now with the rust, but I don't care, my car will be sold next week.

[MagicHands]

im not say that is wrong, if it works fine then good, everyone has own idea
if i find my pic then i will paste

[Bundy]

Genius! Finaly! the only way mine opens is to pull th lever, walk to the back, push the right edge of the flap, walk back and then pull the lever again.

The woman in my local petrol station must just think i have a really crap memory and forget to open it EVERY time i go to fill up.

[BruceT]

I had the experiance of buying a new to me D9 for 2000 with fuel light on... got the petrol station and the damn flap would not open!

Looks like ill have to try this spring fix, but do 384 miles before I need to fill up

[406silverhdi]

does any one have a pic of this fix, all the links seem to be dead

[jasper5]

http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/uu10 ... 1262442699

There you go.....

[mk1rs]

just done my flap oooh eerr on my 02 hdi u guys are brill what a fix

[Gary406]

fantastic fix this ive been thinking for 2 years how i fix that stupid fuel cap

THANKS the founder

[swiss]

Yup, mine upped and died just recently, but thanks to this thread I had the savvy to butcher a clothes peg and bodge that mofo. Sorted ^_^

[Gary406]

this is were i put my peg spring, i took the torx screw out, bwnt the spring so one pin was sticking outwards

pic not that good but you should get it

[daniel]

I had the same problem with the broken plastic. I bought some self adhesive rubber feet from Wilkinsons and stuck them on the inside of the flap to correspond with a fixing screw head. That just enough springing to push the flap open when the released is pulled.