Pantera72

I'm around the beaches in Norfolk and Virginia Beach everyday and I never get sand around my gas cap.

NickSezz

In Jersey and I get it too. It's from rain washing dirt off the car and it settles in that fill area. Wind blown particles can help that out too...It should be just fine if you wipe it clean from time to time.

Nuke

Well, I'll have to check tonight to see if there's any inside my fuel door. I'm in Kentucky and there "ain't no" sand in "these here parts, I reckon, y'all"! (PA boy trying to talk southern)...

Rick
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More4Dan

The sand is getting there from the water spray from the rear tires coming up through the gas overflow drain. As the water drains back out it leaves the road dirt/sand behind.

Menace

Also... if you drip any gas after filling the gas dries... and then it "appears" to be sand. I don't know the exact mathematics or chemistry... but we learned this in Automechanics when taking a part an engine. There was traces of "sand" but it is actually just dried up gas.

Or maybe our shop teacher was bull****ting us, but that's what i've come to believe.

olvanish

Thanks to Ford the fuel tank remains accessible to all the crapheads out there 24/7. I don't see why it was so hard to do what most other manufacturers do and comp up with a locking fuel door like any cheap *** honda has. Anyway, I got the locking gas cap next day after purchasin the car itself. You should do too.

theresa

I had to buy a locking gas cap for my dodge ram because a lady freaked out on me one morning.
I do daycare out of my home and I told her she was early one morning. It must of been her time of the month becauseshe started yelling at me....slammed my door.....and slashed one of my tires on the way out !!!!!! What a wack-o !!

Nuke

AND she left her kid with you after doing THAT???? LOL!

bl1nk

I have the same thing... Wierd. I figured I was the only one.[8D]

Norse1974

Mine collects dirt/sand also.Not alot but noticeable.