I am surprised no one is pushing them. As a child I remember most cars had one, as you had to hand the attendant a key to open it.

My car doesn't even have a cash cap.

^Same. Good luck trying to get a hose in there to syphon gas. I’ve tried and got maybe a gallon. These days, it’s faster to put a drain pan under the vehicle and drill a hole in the tank.

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Do you have an anti siphon rollover valve?

My car has a regular cap but my truck doesn't have one at all either, both have interior releases for the filler doors though.
Theft really becomes a problem when there are shortages, so far we "only" have high prices.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
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Do you have an anti siphon rollover valve?

I don’t know. I needed gas for the jet ski and the local station was out. Rather than driving 25 miles to the next nearest station, I figured I try to get some out of the boat then the car. Neither worked. I tried both the hard, PE tubing and soft, PVC tubing. They just kept getting jammed.

LOL Many of the gas thieves around here just drill a hole in the plastic gas tank with their stolen cordless drill these days.

Don’t all cars have anti-syphon valves now?

Everything I read about references the drilling of holes in the tank.

While Joe Bob gets the catalytic converter.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
My car doesn't even have a cash cap.

Neither does my SUV.

In the near future will thieves carry extension cords to drain the E out of EV's.

You can hook up power cords to most of them to run stuff when out camping or the power goes out in the house.

Hack the Wifi, hook up a generator cord and quietly drain the E... into some portable E storage unit.

Can see it now "Yo Man got some cheap E, you need a charge? $40 man

My police unit does not have a cap. The door is the lid. It is not lockable.

With evaporative emissions control, the sealing of the inlet is critical. I use OEM caps and replace them to avoid leaks over time.

We were happy when getting boat out of storage a couple weeks ago to find the tank still full. Last time gas was this high I found 45 of the 47 gallons gone!

Filled my F150 yesterday for $94… it’s got no lid. I back the truck into the driveway where it’s under a camera…god help anyone I catch stealing from me.

Haven’t heard of any gas thefts here in Temple, but I remember when obummer was in office and gas was at $4/gallon…we had a bunch of thefts from the gas stations around Wilson. They’d bring a trailer with those plastic cubes farmers use, and a battery powered pump and siphon thousands of gallons in a few minutes. After the first one got hit, the stations out at I95 paid off duty officer to sit there overnight.

There is a mechanism in the neck that goes from the inlet to the tank, it is designed to NOT allow a siphon hose through. It works.

Last year one of the kids put 87 Octane in a high performance car that required 93. I tried to siphon it out, no luck. I had 4 different siphon rigs from the auto parts store. NONE would pass down to the tank itself.
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My 2019 Chevy Colorado does not have a gas cap OR locking filler door.

My 2021 Volvo has a locked filler door when the doors are locked.

My car came with a little locking cover for the capless fuel fill spout. I don't care about potential theft; with the BOSS I'm more worried about jealous assholes dumping random junk into my tank.

Honestly if they're going to steal the fuel they're probably going to jack it up and drill a hole in the tank anyway. Way faster.

Locking caps are a thing of the past. They are now cutting/drilling the plastic fuel tank and taking the gas. In my neighborhood, they are drilling pick up truck tanks and taking up to $200 worth of gas. Good times ahead.

So if you don't have a gas cap , why post at all ?

My truck you have to hit a switch on the interior for the door to open. They’d have to drill the metal door so fuck em.

Daily driver is electric and the charging ports it’s the same thing. Door, metal, have to unlock it from the inside.

These days I just don’t leave my vehicles unattended for long. Work, we have security gamers and you have to badge into the garage. So no worries there. The gym, I park in a certain place where it’s never going to happen. Any place else, like groceries, etc, I’m not parked long enough. 10 minutes. House I have cameras and motion detection set up around the vehicles, as well as app based alarms.

I live by Gunny’s words in FMJ talking to Pyle or bitching about Pyle not having his foot locker locked. If it weren’t for idiots like him there’d be no thievery in this world.