To my amazement, I too am the owner of a Bejeweled gas cap. I'm in the cool crowd now.

 

Just don't let it drop and hit the car!!! Wish there was a slightly better holder for it while I'm filling up...

 

Never gave either cap much thought until... GT has regular and the GTC now here has jeweled. Yes, the jeweled is far nicer and already debating getting the uprated shift ****.

 

Just do it!

One seller on eBay who has three but asking 850 a pop.

J

 

$850 is too high and as I recall the leather color they have is not correct for the car here. Color me a very patient man as love eBay and got a set of B rims for $800/set there. Patience is rewarded.

 

I know this is an old thread but I have to add my 2 cents. Such an elegant gas cap. Bentley is to be commended and now there is also an upgrade from the brushed finish to bright chrome. How nice. HOWEVER, that said you would think that such a high end vehicle would have had something other then a crap piece of plastic attaching it to the body and will eventually (as it did to me) break with all the weight hanging off that little door hook. AND (as in my break off event) it can when breaking off and DROP on to the body resulting in a nice little dent which required some paint-less dent removal for an addition slap to the wallet. How hard would it have been to use a nice stainless cable sleeved in rubber to insure an event like this would not occur. This just happened yesterday by the way and I will not be replacing the cap (can't replace the plastic lanyard anyway) but instead will design and implement a stainless cable with a rubber sleeve to protect the surrounding paintwork. What a great idea, wish I had thought of it. Lol. Great set of wheels though, I will say.

 

I just read this thread, and until reading I always let my Jewelled filler cap just dangle carefully on the body of the car, as I could never work out how it attached to the little plastic hook..
Just went the car no and tried hooking it on the inner threaded and it works great.

I think many Bentley owners have no clue as the manual is not clear.

BTW $850 is a steal for a jewelled cap. Lamborghini would require $1,500 to replace the cap on my Gallardo...

 

that stock cap does look like garbage.

 

$350 is about what it's worth at most. As for Lambo pricing, still a VW Group product so yeah priced accordingly.

 

So yesterday after some contemplation on a re-design I made what I thing is a permanent fix to this disaster waiting to happen. For about $5 in materials which included a 12 inch piece of 1/16 stainless cable, aluminum cable crimps and some black heat shrink, future failure of the gas cap lanyard is a thing of the past.

This is the problem.



And this is my fix
Stainless cable covered in shrink wrap.

 

 

 

Well done Bentley Toy!

 

I wish I hadn't read this post now, I will never look at my plastic fuel filler cap in the same way again Lordy lordy lordy I hope I forget it quickly.

 

Sorry to revive an old thread.... and to cause angst for those of us without the Jewel Filler Cap....

I see that there are now several versions but it's not clear to me if they are 'backward' compatible?

I have a UK early 2010 GT (so pre update of the info unit.) Would the latest Jewel fuel cap work which look like these?




Or will I need one like this?




Mine is the '3 click type'

Thanks...

A