Newish Commodore Petrol Flap Missing

[n3z]

Hello,
Just curious as to why so many of the newer commodores seem to have a missing petrol flap.
In the last few weeks i've seen at least 20 cars without them. Is this a common problem?
Cheers

n3z

[nicko]

when my mate was getting his front bar sprayed the bloke took his petrol lid off the car so he had something to match thr paint with. so if someone cant drop their car in for a while to the panel shop they can match the paint and spray the bar up for you so u can just pick it up without leaving your car there.

thats my guess anyways

[daron]

in my case i opened it at a servo and the thing is so flimsy i knocked it and it broke off
i glued mine back on

[n3z]

cheers guys, had me and my gf baffled!!

[LeojVS]

yeah, they are really flimsy. saw a guy break one off his car yesterday funnily enough. He cracked the poos and threw it clear out of the servo.

[DANNY8]

I remember pulling up behind a cop at a servo, the chick coppa pulled the lever to open it and the flap popped open then fell on the ground....she just looked at me and started laughing haha

[welly01]

got to larf at this thread .. went to fill the car up yesterday ..pulled into petrol sation and was looking for fuel release lever ..be f**cked if i could find it .. thought to myself it gotta be here somewhere !!! ..so theres me and the missus doors wide open lookin for the lever .. completely stumped .. some other guy even started looking ..still no joy .. so there i was looking through the manual .. would you F**ckin believe it .. you have to walk to the fuel flap an press it and it opens ... DEEEEERRRRRR !

[nicko]

lol, i spent 20 minutes trying to work out how to open one of the work vans petrol thing. i ended up getting so ****ed off i booted the panel and it opened

[Low_VX_Taxi]

id say with petrol prices on the rise that there are alotta people siphoning out petrol... prob break the caps.....

[evil_monkey]

speaking of missing petrol flaps, you can get replacement ones from holden reasonably cheap and colour coded to match

[Cody]

someone popped my fuel cap in the vn and tried to syphon fuel, the hose they tried to use must have been too big cause apparently commodores have some sort of stop thing so ppl cant syphon? anyway i had like half a tank n they didnt get any lol

[Bluesman]

The main reason it is made out of SHIT plastic.
Holden has them at $32.20.......................catch is they are just undercoated (white undercoat would look so wonderfull on my lovely dark blue VN ute)................so then you have to take it and get it sprayed.

It is the greatest ripp off ever...................GMH should hang their bloody head in shame. It should at least be made of light metal.

Does anyone know how I can contact them Im not letting this one rest...............A Currant Affaire's looking good.

[Bluesman]

speaking of missing petrol flaps, you can get replacement ones from holden reasonably cheap and colour coded to match

Please advise where I can get a colour coded one...........Kelly Holden Newcastle said they only come undercoated

yourcowboys@hotmail.com

[partymixx]

had mine replaced under warrenty, spend 30 gs on a clubsport to have the petrol flap fall off in my hands a week later, then notice it had been aroldited back on, i say poor desighn in general on the flaps, need to be very carfull when open/closing.

[Rusty]

LOL, Funny stuff. Should try living in an aboriginal area. I saw a car the other day that HAD a petrol flap (lacking windows though)!!

[ari666]

kinda on topic, i had an idiot skyline customer come back after he had levered his own petrol flap open with a big screw driver. damaged the hell out of it, kinked and chipped the paint on his quarter. complaining red faced mad "bloddy f..ken this an that" ALL my fault, obviously.... i was like... um.. walked to the car, pushed the lever down (CLEARLY printed on the lever push for fuel, pull for boot) flap pops open...

i just walked off.

[undar8ed1]

someone popped my fuel cap in the vn and tried to syphon fuel, the hose they tried to use must have been too big cause apparently commodores have some sort of stop thing so ppl cant syphon? anyway i had like half a tank n they didnt get any lol

the thing can be a small bar that goes across the centre of the pipe or a sharp bend in the neck.

[JMP]

I've never had a problem syphoning fuel from one of my holdens, never have been able to do it to a ford or honda I owned though.

[ParkwayDrv]

The main reason it is made out of SHIT plastic.
Holden has them at $32.20.......................catch is they are just undercoated (white undercoat would look so wonderfull on my lovely dark blue VN ute)................so then you have to take it and get it sprayed.

It is the greatest ripp off ever...................GMH should hang their bloody head in shame. It should at least be made of light metal.

Does anyone know how I can contact them Im not letting this one rest...............A Currant Affaire's looking good.

LOL you take your petrol flaps seriously

[OFF T4P]

vt and vx are the worst for it

[Zeussy]

Yeah, have also seen a lot of VT-VZ getting around up here with different coloured ones, or missing.

I've never had a problem with either of mine, old VT and the VY, the VH doesn't have a fuel flap anymore so I don't need to worry about that one

[Sabbath']

The main reason it is made out of SHIT plastic.
Holden has them at $32.20.......................catch is they are just undercoated (white undercoat would look so wonderfull on my lovely dark blue VN ute)................so then you have to take it and get it sprayed.

It is the greatest ripp off ever...................GMH should hang their bloody head in shame. It should at least be made of light metal.

Does anyone know how I can contact them Im not letting this one rest...............A Currant Affaire's looking good.

Wait...you're having a sook because a company makes a generic product? Maybe we should call A Currant Affair on all those people who make Airfix models, or Warhammer models, because they sell you something made out of plastic, then you need to buy the paint and paint it yourself. WHAT A SCAM!!!

[PhatCommy]

got to larf at this thread .. went to fill the car up yesterday ..pulled into petrol sation and was looking for fuel release lever ..be f**cked if i could find it .. thought to myself it gotta be here somewhere !!! ..so theres me and the missus doors wide open lookin for the lever .. completely stumped .. some other guy even started looking ..still no joy .. so there i was looking through the manual .. would you F**ckin believe it .. you have to walk to the fuel flap an press it and it opens ... DEEEEERRRRRR !

Yeah I had the same thing happen when I first got mine, I was sitting in the servo for ten minutes before I checked the manual.

[Astranomical]

Yeah, Dad had the same thing when he got his VE...its quite obvious when you think about it, really...unless you're used to earlier model Commodores having the lever.

[danja]

The main reason it is made out of SHIT plastic.
Holden has them at $32.20.......................catch is they are just undercoated (white undercoat would look so wonderfull on my lovely dark blue VN ute)................so then you have to take it and get it sprayed.

It is the greatest ripp off ever...................GMH should hang their bloody head in shame. It should at least be made of light metal.

Does anyone know how I can contact them Im not letting this one rest...............A Currant Affaire's looking good.

I hate it when the little flaps on the air vents break too - while you're at it, can please you tell ACA they should be made from some kind of titanium alloy? Also I'm sick of tyres wearing out, they should be made from an indestructible form of heavy rubber. Seriously, they should do this - sure they car would weigh 4 tons and cost as much as the GDP of Bolivia, but at least that darn petrol cap would stay put!