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Originally Posted by fastball
A lot of you are totally missing the point.
Most manufacturers have standard locking fuel doors on every vehicle they sell. It has little or nothing to do with whether anyone is scared of having someone steal or sabotage their fuel.
Honda, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai, and VW/Audi have had locking fuel doors on ALL their cars for the last 30 years. Ford has had them on various cars since the 80s (I know my Dad’s 1988 Thunderbird had a remote fuel door release) and I think it’s standard on most of if not all their cars now.
GM is just simply out of touch with their competitors on this feature. ESPECIALLY if it’s on the European models which would require little cost and actually STREAMLINE production if ALL Camaros had it.
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I would actually say "in touch" with what the customer wants. Just because it's available doesn't mean the car needs it or the customers want it.
You are falling into the internet problem by assuming because you want it, everyone must want it so therefor GM must be out of touch for not having it.
I've driven many GM cars that had locking fuel doors.
GM just isn't going to default to demands of a few customers. Most, I'd wager, like me, could not care less.
As for siphoning? Very tough to do these days and has been for a while now.
For someone contaminating your fuel? Not sure I've ever read a case of that on this website in over 10 years. Very rare.
So GM isn't really motivated to offer a feature that prevents 2 very rare occurrences. If that many people were demanding it, you would see it on more cars.