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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? |
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Thanks for the info. I'll try it out next fill-up.
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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.
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Adam Lumsden (83) 300D Vice-President of the MBCA International Stars Section Last edited by rg2098; 05-05-2006 at 02:47 PM. |
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You mean that hole where I stick a rag down? Just kidding.
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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..
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Proud owner of .... 1971 280SE W108 1979 300SD W116 1983 300D W123 1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper 1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel 1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified) --------------------- Section 609 MVAC Certified --------------------- "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche |
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for info on this thread, which cars do and which don't?
mine is an 82 300SD that is the 126 body 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 |
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And all this time I thought that spring was a cigarette holder.
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yes, I did figure this out on my own, but only within the last year or 2.
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'82 300SD - 361K mi - "Blue" "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." listen, look, .........and duck. |
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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.
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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later! -German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123. |
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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.
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