Warning for the stupid, like me

[Chopper]

When you get to the gas station, and you can't really pull up to the pump quite, so you pull out the hose, hard, and manage to get the nozzle in the hole... when you are done, you will find, that the outter ring of the fuel door, has cracked. Now fuming mad, you will go home, call your local Isuzu dealer, and be quoted just under 100 bucks... so for the *#@!% of it you call Merlin at St. Charles, and mention this website, and do a little a** kiss (all parts and service guys love this-pizzas or subs from a customer are always worth twenty times their cost at our shop...with beer...twentyfive) you will get the stupid door for 81 bucks. I may as well have filled this tank in Italy...over $140....ouch. You are warned, that ring is Pot Metal...not aluminium...or steel....or machined at all. It is a cast, pot metal, hunk o' crap, that will bust if you put even a few ounces of pressure on the open door. My new, cast, pot metal, hunk o' crap, fuel door will be here Thursday or Friday. I will be more patient... this will not happen again...I will be more patient.

[Dino]

Hard lesson Chopper. Sorry, but thanks for the warning.

Mine has a bit of corrosion under the silver paint. I know metals well enough to see that its made of pot metal by the look of the corrosion.

[johnnyapollo]

Mine cracked too - bought a used one from someone parting a wreck for $40 shipped.

-- John

[Triathlete]

Wait till you price the center caps on the wheels...will make that filler door seem like a bargin! I thought the local dealler was giving me a price for a whole new wheel! ;eekr;

[IndianaVX]

what jerks,
to think this all could have been prevented if they just installed longer hoses..

[etlsport]

these doors are also not painted well! i used some purple power on the cladding.. started to strip the paint off of the door.. looked awful.. so had to repaint it.. went w/ a hammered black finish.. turned out decently..although the clearcoat on it kinda flattened out the hammered finish