The door to my gas tank does not lock when the car is locked

 

I didn't know they were supposed to?

 

Yeah, it's not supposed to.

 

I'm sure that mine used to lock whenever I locked the car

 

^It's a little door that you pull open....

The only way it would lock is if you had to pull a latch by your drivers side seat.

Do you have a lock mechanism on the back of your fuel door latch?

 

The 850 gas door should lock when you lock the car.
It sounds like the motor is bad.

 

^REALLY!?!?!

 

Yes is should lock everytime you lock the car.

 

Yes, ours still locks every time you lock the car.....except in REALLY cold temps.

 

It was an option to have a locking fuel door. Some of you have it, some don't.

 

That must be it.

After I read that, I took a trip outside into the FREEZING cold temperatures and took a look. My fuel door is just spring loaded. No lock.

 

I'm sure that it's somewhere in the owner's manual. I read through the entire thing a few months ago and saw somewhere that some cars had the fuel door connected to the central locking system.

 

My gas door hasn't locked since I bought the car a couple of years ago. A couple of weeks ago it decided to lock but then not unlock. My wife usually drives the car and she was starting to panic as the gas gauge got lower and lower.

If you have a sedan and your gas door won't open just open the (US)passenger's side taillight door and look for a metal hoop along the side of the rear quarter panel. One pull toward the back of the car and you are filling up!

...Lee

 

HMMM I have never seen one without the motor unless someone took it out of the car.

 

 

Huh, learned something new about my cars! Both of them have locking fuel doors! All my old Mercedes had vacuum locking fuel doors, so I don't know why I never checked to see if my Volvo ones did the same.

 

If that is your car the motor is there. Those 2 torx screws hold the motor in.
But your catch on the door itself that locks the door is missing.

 

^Interesting........

I would have never thought that in '95 Volvo had anti-siphoning measures.

Edit: But if you take a look at my door itself, it doesn't look like it has anything for the door to lock into. The wear on the door doesn't look like it matches up with the lock...

 

A bracket is supposed to come off the door and go into the hole.
Like this.