I feel silly, how many of you out there know what the spring on the gas door does?
 

what the ?
amazing,. I JUST figured out (after loosing my gas cap at a gas station and recovering it!!!) the spring in the door holds the cap!
now I know most of you knew this, but how many did not... and will admit it?
:eek:

Thanks for the info. I'll try it out next fill-up.

I noticed that when I bought the car and figured it out. Since then, I've noticed that just about EVERY car made has some sort of cap-holding device mounted to the door. Soemthing I've never noticed before. You learn something new everyday, I guess.

Yes, but many I have seen done do a very good job, expecially on the newer vehicles. But the W123 does a stand up job at holding its fuel cap!

You mean that hole where I stick a rag down? Just kidding.

I wish the W116 did, the door is spring loaded and tries to shut all the time unlike the W123 doesn't have a cap holder built in..

for info on this thread, which cars do and which don't?
 

mine is an 82 300SD that is the 126 body:cool: and it DOES! very firm grip no chance of it falling out if I drive off with it still sitting in the holder very nice!
John

And all this time I thought that spring was a cigarette holder.

yes, I did figure this out on my own, but only within the last year or 2.:o

Well I never figured it out. But then again I've never filled up outside of Oregon, where you are (stupidly) not allowed to pump your own.

Some of the attendents evidently haven't figured out what the spring is for, either. One of them forgot about the cap entirely and I had diesel all over the rear quarter of my car by the time I got home.

Note to self, don't stand near Randy if he's filling up a gasser.:eek: :D

I've left stations where I have observed people lighting up. This is not the place to argue my opinon on smoking but I am truly amazed at the IQ of some people. Apparently if you blow the smoke away from the nozzle your safe, as if the smoke makes things explode.

One time when I was in Russia, our plane stopped in Magadan (formerly gulag central) to re-fuel. I decided I didn't care about stretching my legs so I stayed on the plane. Then I looked out the window and saw that the guy re-fueling the jet was smoking a cig. I decided maybe I would take a look around the terminal after all!

I'm not a smoker; just thought that's what it was for...:D

I didn't even think about it until I went to a full service station (in NJ, I think) and saw the attendant use the holder. It was one of those "I feel stupid" moments, because I had owned the car for months and had been setting the cap on the pump or just holding it my hand. Duh. :o