| 997TTurbo |
Dec 31, 2009 09:56 PM |
Open up your gas lid and take a look at the inside gas cap area. There is a small pin that moves left to right inside the area where the gas cap is. When the car is locked, the pin moves into position and prevents the gas lid from opening. The pin is black and looks like plastic. The pin starts on the left side of the inside opening. The pin goes into an internal bracket located on the underside of the gas lid for the lock position. In unlock position, the pins moves away from this internal bracket and the gas lid can be opened. Be aware that if the gas lid is open and then the car gets locked, the pin will move into the lock position (moves to the right) but does not engage the bracket because the gas lid is open. If you then close the gas lid, it is possible to come down on this plastic pin and snap it off. I figured this out because once I activated my remote to unlock the doors. I did not enter my car or open any doors. I then opened the gas lid to install a new Porsche silver gas cap. While I was cleaning around the gas cap area, the car automatically locked because the doors were never opened. I noticed the pin move from left to right, as it should, but it did not lock the gas lid because the gas lid was still open and the bracket to lock the gas lid was still on the underside of the gas lid. I had to unlock the car again so I could safely lower the lid when the pin retracted to the left. The bottom line is that the car must be unlocked to open the gas lid and unlocked to lower the gas lid. If your pin is snapped off, it can be replaced. Or the pin may be intact but the pin is malfunctioning and not moving into position correctly. Hope this helps:)
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