During the first week I owned van I forgot the special key to the gap cap.
I was 200 mile from home.

Luckily (by the Grace of God?) wiggling my ignition key in the gap cap lock
EVENTUALLY opened the cap. Phew!!  After pumping the gas, I stuffed a rag
in the gas hole (NC solution) and pulled to a parking space at the gas
station, where I dis-assembled the cap lock, and removed all of the
tumblers from the lock.

Now, I don't have to have a special key, in fact any key or similarly
shaped item will work. The cap looks the same and no one knows the
difference...except the 850 of you, and anyone around the world who reads
the archives. "Hey, I thought I filled up yesterday???"

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Corporate Communications Counselors
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Mount Olive, NC USA
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Scott Grillo [SMTP:scottgrillo@COMPUSERVE.COM]
Sent:   Sunday, May 07, 2000 8:54 PM
To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject:        Re: Vanagon keys--the answers

Hate to contradict an expert, but my '90 has a common key for ignition
and gas cap, and it's not a Syncro.  I would guess all late models were
this way.  My '85 had a separate key.

Thanks for the info though Steve

Scott