Fuel Door Does Not Stay Shut

This is the first I've heard of this problem. Has the car been in an accident?

 

Try spraying a little WD-40 in the latch that keeps it shut. Could be that it is stuck.

 

The latch (on the fuel door) is a piece of sheet metal, it may have gotten bent so that the pin doesn't engage it. Just bend it back if that's the case.
Is the latch pin (in the body) working properly when you pull the lever?

 

I agree with Thump, the tab that holds it locked got bent. Bend it back.

 

There's some sort of cable running from the drivers door sill to the latch. Something hanging up with that?

 

Yeah that's not right. Took a look at ours; it's sticking out a bit more than 1/4".

In your pic it looks kinda chewed up: maybe someone pried it open to siphon gas, sheared it off??

 

from the picture, it looks broken off. mine is about half an inch long.

 

mendel, your pic did not come through.

 

Didn't post a pic, or intimate I was going to. I was thinking about it, fwiw: maybe you have esp!

 

for some reason, i read 'take a look at ours'. senior moment.

 

You goaded me into action; been trying to post an image with an IPhone, but it seems to be broken. Posting in general has been a bit flakey, Prone to hang, the last few days.

 

with danny at the meeting, probably gonna be a few days before things get fixed.

 

My pin looks that way when it got stuck in the open position, I used a needle nose pliers to pull it out, then used some dry lube spray, but it happened again. I then bent the flap on the fuel cover door in a little bit, until it just barely would catch on the pin, and now remember not to pull all the way on the fuel release lever, just enough to release the flap and haven't had the problem again.

 

now that you mention it, mine is electric, no cable. the pin works similarly though.

 

have you been driving around all this time with your flap open?