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minpower -> Gas cap stuck! (4/25/2008 10:36:07 PM)

hey guys

so my first fill up after buying my new mazda3, the gas cap was pretty tight loosening. i figured new car no biggie. after i got gas i tightened it to 1 click and went my way

now tonight needing my second tank, the cap is absolutely tight. i cant get it off! whats going on? this ever happend to anyone else?

  
virgin1 -> RE: Gas cap stuck! (4/26/2008 7:33:27 PM)


That's a new one.
No, can't say I've ever really had that problem, and I tighten mine more than that... usually three-four clicks to make sure it's tight and to avoid "loose gas cap" CEL's.


Binarypotato -> RE: Gas cap stuck! (4/27/2008 11:01:55 AM)

When I first got mine from Mazda the guy who put the gas cap on somehow put it on wrong, and I ended up breaking mine...

Which I still think is funny, but luckily it was Warrented and they replaced it no problem.

I think that it has to do with whether you threaded it straight on or not, which doesn't seem possible to me, but I think that's what happened to mine, like it was angled into the hole rather than straight, I would try wiggling it up and down, i.e. perpendicular to your car, and see if that helps at all.

626racer -> RE: Gas cap stuck! (5/4/2008 6:18:18 AM)

well personaly i would just take a elbow box wrench, about......6mm to 8mm and use it for leverage, some new plastics expand and contract so either it did that and got suck, or its threaded wrong and is stuck, but some extra leverage should be able to rotate it out :-)

otto23v -> RE: Gas cap stuck! (8/29/2008 11:05:45 AM)

I have a 2008 mazda 3 and i am having problems with the gas cap being stuck about four times now. The tech said im putting it in wrong but when i went back the fourth time i made the manager try to get it off and he couldnt so he went and got a tool to take it off and it wasnt in wrong he was saying maybe the neck or the pressure in the tank. Anyone else having this problem?? I reported it to mazda and they said no is complaining. So if anyone has complaints you should call mazda for they take action.

  

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