I'm scared my gas is going to evaporate. Help!

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#1 Hopkins_J
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I just went to fill up gas earlier today. I screwed the gas cap on past all of the clicks. Is that good? Or does it matter?

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#2 Necrifer
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Uuuhm...Just make sure the cap is on.

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#3 CyleM
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Is this your first time to drive? As long as your gas cap is on you are fine.
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#4 horgen  Moderator
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Use loads of gaffatape if you are unsure. =P
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#5 rawsavon
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Don't worry...people will come and siphon it out of your tank long before that happens
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#6 Engrish_Major
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Don't worry...people will come and siphon it out of your tank long before that happensrawsavon
Heh... I always wanted to catch someone doing that when I had my diesel VW. Then laugh my *** off as they tried to drive away.
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#7 Oleg_Huzwog
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Don't worry...people will come and siphon it out of your tank long before that happensrawsavon

Reminds of the story (urban myth, perhaps?) of the guy who attempted to siphon gas from an RV and ended up sucking from the waste tank instead.

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[QUOTE="rawsavon"]Don't worry...people will come and siphon it out of your tank long before that happensEngrish_Major
Heh... I always wanted to catch someone doing that when I had my diesel VW. Then laugh my *** off as they tried to drive away.

but what id they too had a diesel VM :o

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[QUOTE="Engrish_Major"][QUOTE="rawsavon"]Don't worry...people will come and siphon it out of your tank long before that happensspawnassasin

Heh... I always wanted to catch someone doing that when I had my diesel VW. Then laugh my *** off as they tried to drive away.

but what id they too had a diesel VM :o


They'd drive away :P

Just throw some ice in the tank, man; keep it chilled.

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#10 Engrish_Major
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They'd drive away :P

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And I'd have to skip the "laugh my *** off" part.
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#11 rawsavon
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[QUOTE="rawsavon"]Don't worry...people will come and siphon it out of your tank long before that happensOleg_Huzwog

Reminds of the story (urban myth, perhaps?) of the guy who attempted to siphon gas from an RV and ended up sucking from the waste tank instead.

Reminds of when a band dumped their waste tank in town...I forget which one...Dave Mathews I think.
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[QUOTE="rawsavon"]Don't worry...people will come and siphon it out of your tank long before that happensOleg_Huzwog

Reminds of the story (urban myth, perhaps?) of the guy who attempted to siphon gas from an RV and ended up sucking from the waste tank instead.

Reminds me of a story where a couple of idiots wanted to steal fuel from a trabant. And checked if there's any fuel in with a matchstick.

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#13 Engrish_Major
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Reminds of when a band dumped their waste tank in town...I forget which one...Dave Mathews I think.rawsavon
Oh, come on, they're not that bad.
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#14 Engrish_Major
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[QUOTE="coreybg"]

Reminds me of a story where a couple of idiots wanted to steal fuel from a trabant. And checked if there's any fuel in with a matchstick.

Now that's just low. Someone with a Trabant isn't exactly rolling in the dough.
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#15 rawsavon
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[QUOTE="rawsavon"]Reminds of when a band dumped their waste tank in town...I forget which one...Dave Mathews I think.Engrish_Major
Oh, come on, they're not that bad.

:lol: That was nice...hats off to you good sir
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Don't worry...people will come and siphon it out of your tank long before that happensrawsavon
Too bad he didn't give us his address. What? Gas is cheap nowadays.
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#17 MediumBread
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Put some chocolate in the gas tank. That should stop it evaporating.

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#18 MediumBread
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This thread reminds me of this picture.

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#19 aransom
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I just went to fill up gas earlier today. I screwed the gas cap on past all of the clicks. Is that good? Or does it matter?

Hopkins_J

It doesn't matter. The gas cap only clicks when you've turned it past the point where it's on tight enough. You're being paranoid about the gas evaporating. I've never seen any data, but I imagine it takes weeks for an appreciable amount of gas to evaporate out of a gas tank with no cap.

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#20 FUBAR24
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[QUOTE="rawsavon"]Reminds of when a band dumped their waste tank in town...I forget which one...Dave Mathews I think.Engrish_Major
Oh, come on, they're not that bad.

actually it did happen. they were crossing a bridge over the chicago river in chicago and dumped their waste tanks onto a boat passing below
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#21 aransom
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actually it did happen. they were crossing a bridge over the chicago river in chicago and dumped their waste tanks onto a boat passing belowFUBAR24
If the boat hadn't been there, no one would have noticed. It might have made the Chicago River cleaner.

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#22 comp_atkins
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so it's your fault..

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#23 Lost-Memory
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Serious ?...... I don't even know if this is a troll thing or not...... You can make the cap click 1000 times and it will be fine............ I don't get it.
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#24 jwsoul
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I just went to fill up gas earlier today. I screwed the gas cap on past all of the clicks. Is that good? Or does it matter?

Hopkins_J
:D LOL Fair play thats just made me smile.
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#25 deactivated-587633796662c
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Uuuhm...Just make sure the cap is on.

Necrifer
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#26 rawsavon
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[QUOTE="Engrish_Major"][QUOTE="rawsavon"]Reminds of when a band dumped their waste tank in town...I forget which one...Dave Mathews I think.FUBAR24
Oh, come on, they're not that bad.

actually it did happen. they were crossing a bridge over the chicago river in chicago and dumped their waste tanks onto a boat passing below

...he was making a joke about the quality of their music