filler cap

[Slam Wagon]

Ok so my old DT had a little popper in the footwell and smooth filler cap but my new hdi just has a buldge on the cap to open manually as it were.
Does anyone know if i could remove the bits needed off a car that does have the popper and fit it to my hdi?

cheers

[Chris]

I believe so, would have to be from a earlier estate though

[cully]

some of the hdi's came with the remote filler release

mine didnt

[Slam Wagon]

was it just a phase change that meant they stopped doing it?

I believe so, would have to be from a earlier estate though

you have two china covers for sale dont you? are these smooth or with the handle bit? and do you by chance have the rest of the bits i would need? and im guessing it wouldnt need to be from an estate would it as the placement is the same its just the rear is changed from a hatch.

[Chris]

There the ones from a 3dr so no use to you.

I believe the changeover point was when they started putting in locking filler caps so around 2001, so there will be plenty of them floating around in the scrap yards.

[Slam Wagon]

would they not be the same from a 3 door then? i didnt think the be any different? obviously if only end up using the one but oh well. i dont think ive seen a china 306 in the scrappys round here ever.

[Eeyore]

mine has the filler cap release. Never realised that they didnt put them on some of them D:

[ozonehostile]

the pop release on my filler cap drives me mad, keeps getting stuck so have to resort to opening it with a screwdriver. must look pretty suspicious at the petrol station haha

[Toms306]

I had a Y reg hatch (locking cap) with remote release!

Maybe its just estates then, but I'd never seen one without remote lol!

[Slam Wagon]

Ill just have to check the scrappys. See what i can find. Anyone know what else there is to it other than the cover itself? Im assuming its cable and hows the handle etc held on? Cheers

[Jonny81191]

I noticed that, I've had 3 estates; 2x51 plates and a Y plate, and they all had the remote release. Pug parts bin specials?

[Toms306]

Hmm, both Cullys and the OP's are '02 plates.........and seeing as Y's and '51s seem to have remote release, I'd guess the changeover is '02...

[Jonny81191]

Go detective Tom!!

[Toms306]

I've been watching too many murder mysteries at my Nans I think.....

[Slam Wagon]

So they changed it for the last year of production? An they made it worse, that sucks! Lol

[spike2002]

3door covers are bigger than 5door so won't fit.
But as you said any 5 door with one fitted will do the job. Just raid one for all the parts

[Toms306]

So they changed it for the last year of production? An they made it worse, that sucks! Lol

Does the 307 have manual ones? As there weren't any 306 hatches being made by 02 they may have stopped the remote filler flap production.

[cully]

probably ran out of parts in the bin on the 02's