Q-How do you break into a convertible?

A-Pocket knife.

Thieves, be they of the gasoline stealing variety, or something else, will find a way to get what they want.

As a former prosecutor I can tell you that the ways people figure out how to break into things and perpetrate crimes is mind boggling, but in the end, they always get caught.

 

if you have something the bad guys want, nothing will stop them!! so save your money for the insurance deducible or parts to repair the damage the thiefs cause!!

 

Hmmm..no style to me is more approperiate to appearance, not practicality or function; so I'd be inclined to say the OP didn't have style in mind and if style wasn't in mind, then it would be a stretch to state it didn't fit his "style".

Like to give a shout out to lunchbox for providing the most germaine answer.

When I sought this information with an original search without success, I pontificated what title might be approperiate for others subsequently searching for similar. As the OP, I'm not certain the title was a claim by me at the time that I considered it a flaw as much as it was provocation for others to comment on their perspective of the fuel door design.

Am somewhat disappointed no one was able to come up with a hypothetical example of someone stealing one's HHR and driving it until the tank was empty and then ditching it with their fast food trash and cigarette butts left behind; all because it had a locking fuel door designed into it; as a worse case senerio.

If it's safe to say here that most have a threshold when it comes to behavior, I'd like to state I would have preferred this vehicle had a secured fuel door as that would have prevented or acted as threshold to that demographic that I believe have potential for any fuel related mayhem I may experience.

What did I learn today? That in all probability thru the short evolution of the HHR a secured fuel door was never offered on any model as it was never mentioned in this thread as such...

To address another's post...not to worry this doesn't keep me up all nite, my occupation does that; at least I hope it does, hate to get caught snoozing at work.

 

You answered MY question.....sorry, I didn't answer YOURS !!

 

The only flaw i noticed is that its on the wrong side of the car.

 

I Must be getting old. I remember when the "correct" side was under the tag in the back.

 

Me too George..

Then that was deemed unsafe in rear end collisions.. Maybe that's why our filler is on pass side ? IDK ?

What I do know is, I do not miss the tethered gas cap..It hangs on the wall, with other ones.

 

Its the convention now to have the filler opposite of the tailpipe on singe exhaust vehicles, but that's not always the case. Supposedly its safety related, but what about new cars with dual exhausts like my Challenger etc.

I still prefer the old "center fill", but like the days of lap belts only and four wheel drums, its just something us "Dinosaurs" remember now.

 

Very true, however I do remember parking upward on a steep slope with a full tank of gas..
& Of course it was dripping out the back center fill cap.. I don't miss that, but the gas prices back then are missed for sure..

 

What about "nailing" it at a light and spraying the guy behind you with a fine mist of gasoline, seems that those old fashioned locking gas caps also worked great as a squirt gun too.

We're so conditioned to the gas prices now that if they suddenly dropped back to "only" $2.00 a gallon, there would be parties in the streets.