Year before last, the city installed cameras at the boat harbor due to rise in gas theft. Thievery dropped instantly. I bought a locking gas cap as gas prices are expected to rise to $7.00 per as soon as the next fuel barge coming in the next few weeks.

Anyone had problems with stolen gas? Who's changed over to running the locking caps within the last few months?

 

I have a locking cap, but it`s because someone stuffed shop towels im my tank and completely burned up my fuel pump. It`s definetly worth the money.

 

I bought myself a cap the moment I bought the pickup. Had one on the Dakota before I traded it in to.

For me, its kind of due to an old habit. When gas first started getting high, several college students on the campus I was going to school at started siphoning gasoline. And, sometimes, for no particular reason, pissing in your gas tank. They'd get drunk and "have some fun", which might include some stupidity like that.

So, when I happened to see the locking gas cap in Wally world one day, I snagged it. Loved them ever since. Even carry a little bottle of WD40 in my center console during the winter so that if the cap is too cold and stiff to get the key in, I can spray her down a bit and get it to work.

 

Yup... I got one. Cheap insurance... only 13 bucks when I got mine.

 

I have one on my truck, because my truck sits at home alot when I use my bike for 90% of my commuting to and from work. I bought one for my wife's car also to make it harder if someone wants the gas out of the car, and of course my bike has a lock on the cap itself.

 

just my 2 cents here. a locking gas cap may work as a deterent, but if someone wants the gas bad enough they will get it. A while back I was working for a company called Oggi's. we did pizza and deliveries and we had 5 delivery trucks that we would leave sitting out in the parking lot at night. then we began to notice we were suddenly having to fill the trucks daily. Figured someone was siphoning the gas. so we got locking gas caps for them. two days later one of the drivers came back from a run. he had stopped on his way back to fill the tank only to get fuel all over his leg and foot. I stuck my head under there to look. turns out someone had actually cut a nice big hole out of the fuel filler neck so they could stick a hose down into the tank to siphon out the fuel. had to replace the 40 dollar hose. after that we started parking the trucks in the gated parking structure at night.

 

I saw it on the news awhile back where they were actually punching a whole in the gas tank to steal the gas.

 

Of course, its just like anything else. If they want to get into your home to steal your possessions, they will. If they want to steal your car badly enough, they will. A lock, an alarm, motion sensors, motion activited flood lights, etc., etc. are all just deterrants for opportunistic thieves (which is what most thieves are) and defenses to catch the stupid ones.

If the right guy comes along and wants your stuff, he will get it, no matter how many deterrants you throw in his path. The only thing we can do is have deterrants and hope the "right guy" doesn't come along.

 

I bought mine back when gas went over $3 a gallon. It was well worth the $12.

 

I think the locking gas cap is a possible must...just for a deterrent, but also, if you just push on the lock and twist, you can get past it, I have one on my truck and the guy at the gas station showed me that one day because I was wondering how he got into it before I could get out and unlock it. Yeah, try it on yours whoever has it, just press hard on the spot where you stick the key in and turn the cap and it will come off like it was never locked at all...but most people dont know this...so hopefully to many people dont start figuring that out, especially driving these trucks, our gas tanks are targets because they are bigger than the average cars, we actually got the gas tank on our suburban relocated so that people couldnt find it as easily because those are the biggest tanks on the road with a 32 gallon tank its a gold mine for any gas thief so we got it repositioned and got a locking cap and locking cover.