Gas tank lid will not open/Fuel Door Malfunction

Post by **Keel** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:13 pm

Three times now I have been unable to open my fuel door. I have tried all 3 methods to unlock it but nothing works. It eventually opens but....

Any ideas what tghe problem is as the dealer said nothing was wrong!$@#

Any help greatly appreciated.

Keel

Post by **astraldweller** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:18 pm

I always have to hit my unlock button for my doors to get it to open.If I only have the driver door unlocked it won't open.

Post by **Cali 2 Balti G** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:18 am

Keel wrote:Three times now I have been unable to open my fuel door. I have tried all 3 methods to unlock it but nothing works. It eventually opens but....

Any ideas what tghe problem is as the dealer said nothing was wrong!$@#

Any help greatly appreciated.

Keel

What are the three methods?

I bought my car in Cali and immediately after purchase drove it cross country to baltimore. Obviously refueled several times but when I got to WV I couldn't get the fuel door open - until I read the manual and discovered that it would not open if the doors were locked. Good Luck.

Post by **gwoods** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:59 am

ahh I had the same problem.

You have gotten the unlock/lock out of sequence with the fuel door open/close.

Open the fuel door then unlock the car. close the fuel door and lock the car. Then you should be back in sequence!

Hope thats it

Jeff

Post by **Hookm36** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:19 pm

same thing happened to me.....was worried at first, but it worked fine after I understood what I needed to do.

Post by **vickim** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:00 am

Just bought a 2004 G35 Sedan. Dealer did not have an owner's manual, so I am trying to figure out HOW to open the fuel door. Can anyone help?? (I am almost out of gas!)Thanks

Post by **G_whizz** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:45 am

gwoods wrote:ahh I had the same problem.

You have gotten the unlock/lock out of sequence with the fuel door open/close.

Open the fuel door then unlock the car. close the fuel door and lock the car. Then you should be back in sequence!

Hope thats it

Jeff

try that ^^^^

The fuel door does not have a button or anything to "spring it open" walk up to it and just push it in (make sure your doors are unlocked)

Post by **vickim** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:56 am

Sorry to sound so stupid...Thank you so much for the info. BTW, the dealer is trying to locate an owner's manual for me. The Infiniti site has it available to download for years 2007 and 2008 only. If my dealer cannot get one for me (it's actually a Honda dealership), do you know where I might be able to get one?

Post by **gwoods** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:18 am

Check Ebay and car-part.com

You should be able to buy an owners manual from either place.

Post by **telcoman** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:52 am

vickim wrote:Just bought a 2004 G35 Sedan. Dealer did not have an owner's manual, so I am trying to figure out HOW to open the fuel door. Can anyone help?? (I am almost out of gas!)Thanks

Try here!

https://www.nissan-techinfo.co...3EN0B

Telcoman

Post by **vickim** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:56 am

awesome. Thank you so much!

Post by **telcoman** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:56 am

vickim wrote:awesome. Thank you so much!

Welcome to NICO

Telcoman

Post by **djniv** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:31 am

i just got my g35 a few weeks ago and have noticed the first few times i went to fill up that it took a bunch of tries to get the gas lid to unlock...the other day i spent over an hour trying to get it to open and it just wouldnt...i think its broken , is there any way to manually open the lid so i can fill up?

Post by **djniv** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:36 am

if i cant

gwoods wrote:ahh I had the same problem.

You have gotten the unlock/lock out of sequence with the fuel door open/close.

Open the fuel door then unlock the car. close the fuel door and lock the car. Then you should be back in sequence!

Hope thats it

Jeff

if i cant get the fuel door open how would you recommend gixing the sequence, im almost out of gas lol and really need to get this door open, is there a manual way to do it?

Post by **Cali 2 Balti G** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:38 am

r u sure that the doors are unlocked first. The gas cover will not pop open unless the doors are unlocked. This happened to me too when I firs bought my car. I bought min in Cali and drove it cross country - obviously filling up several times along the way. It wasn't until I got to West Virginia did I run into problems ( this was the only time I locked the car before I opened the fuel tank)

Post by **djniv** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:43 am

yeah ive gone through the process of locking and unlocking the car like 50 times ensuring its fully locked and fully unlocked, found out if i hold my unlock button my windows go down haha but still cant get the cap open.

Post by **joe603** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:55 am

What year/model G?

I've seen this issue before...I think it was a faulty spring/latch assembly. If its under warranty, let the dealer fix it.

Post by **telcoman** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:57 am

djniv wrote:yeah ive gone through the process of locking and unlocking the car like 50 times ensuring its fully locked and fully unlocked, found out if i hold my unlock button my windows go down haha but still cant get the cap open.

I believe there is a manual release in the trunk. Double check your owners manual.

Telcoman

Post by **djniv** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:27 am

its a 2004 g35x, ill check the trunk release

Post by **infinititech1** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:35 am

wrap flathead screwdriver in towel and pop out door

Post by **Furuoka** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:42 am

Just break the mechanisim like I did when I had the doors locked and did not know any better. Just thought it decided to break on me. - moron.

Post by **engineer20** » Wed Jul 06, 2016 3:54 pm

My 2015 Rogue fuel door won't open. I took it to the dealer and they fixed it for free under warranty, this is considered a warranty repair, right? What went wrong with it? Could I have fixed it myself by spraying wd40 or pb blaster? Thanks. It wouldn't open, and I was almost out of gas, then I fuled up after they fixed it and went to work this morning.

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