I have owned my Defender for 2 months now and just discovered the fueling door doesn’t lock. Is that correct?

Thanks!

 

None of our Jags have locked. Look on the bright side, it's one less thing to break

 

I noticed on the build sheet there is a fuel door “delete” entry. So it’s deliberately removed from US market. Fuel theft is only rampant where gas/petrol prices are ridiculously high. Like UK and California. 😄

still prices are going up in Texas right now.

 

Correct. This is also the case on the LR4, Evoque and other Land Rover products.

Solution, if needed, is to buy a locking, inner gas cap.

 

I am in Australia. My fueling door locks when I lock the vehicle (single lock, double lock). It doesn't lock when it's locked from the inside using the door lock buttons. I actually find it useful in the sense, not having to pop open a thing before exiting the vehicle

 

In a related matter, who designed this gas cap holder? If I bump it (or even touch it) with the gas pump nozzle the tethered gas cap falls out and hits the rear fender. Never had this issue with our LR4 gas cap holder over 135,000 miles which is many fill-ups. Amazing how they can redesign a functioning feature and make it worse.

 

I was thinking the same yesterday - however I can't even figure out how to get the darn gas cap to stay on that at all. I just let it hang there - stupid design

 

Yea totally ... every other car I have owned had a place to hang the thing on ... I was like "what do I do with this now"

 

Same here, it works but poorly. My last two fillups I've had it stay on the hook for me but the tether needs to be just right and you have to place it on there like you're feeding a cobra. Good for a laugh at our expense with anyone admiring the truck I guess. The design looked good on paper but underwent minimal testing apparently. The assumption was probably no need to test it, who would get this wrong?

 

can someone send a pic of how it’s supposed to hang? I can’t get it stay on so maybe I am being an idiot.