Author Topic: How to Open Fuel Filler Cap on MK6 Golf  (Read 3662 times)

Offline passant

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How to Open Fuel Filler Cap on MK6 Golf
« on: 10 January 2014, 18:38 »
Right, I know this is a really stupid question, I've had the car for a year now and I'm not sure if I'm opening the fuel filler cap right. . . How should I be doing this!?
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Offline Hartside

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Re: How to Open Fuel Filler Cap on MK6 Golf
« Reply #1 on: 10 January 2014, 18:58 »
Push it in and it will spring open far enough for you to get hold of and open completely
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Re: How to Open Fuel Filler Cap on MK6 Golf
« Reply #2 on: 10 January 2014, 19:02 »
Nice one, That's how I've been doing it, but it takes some force to push it in to open it ... My mate tried doing it before, he had a leon and I think that had a button to open the cap ... it just dawned on me that I might have been forcing it for the past year haha!
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Re: How to Open Fuel Filler Cap on MK6 Golf
« Reply #3 on: 10 January 2014, 22:02 »
As above you just push it and it springs open. Similar to glass fronted cabinet doors as its the same type of catch.
My leon has a button that pops the flap.
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Re: How to Open Fuel Filler Cap on MK6 Golf
« Reply #4 on: 10 January 2014, 22:18 »
It might be a bit broken. Mines a little stiff sometimes, you have to push in the right place but when I had it in for a service they said the push button is broken and if I wanted to have it fixed, then they quoted £150, err no you alright it works good enough for me :smiley:
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Re: How to Open Fuel Filler Cap on MK6 Golf
« Reply #5 on: 11 January 2014, 11:01 »
£150 .... NO CHANCE. Who makes these prices up! Nice one!
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Re: How to Open Fuel Filler Cap on MK6 Golf
« Reply #6 on: 18 January 2014, 17:49 »
My fabia had a little lever they were similar to the leon,i've never had issues with my gtd nice grill btw lol

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Re: How to Open Fuel Filler Cap on MK6 Golf
« Reply #7 on: 21 January 2014, 09:35 »
My fabia had a little lever they were similar to the leon,i've never had issues with my gtd nice grill btw lol

I'm just waiting for a front GTD bumper hahaha, the grill just went on before I got the bumper ;) haha!
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