Fuel Flap Locking Solenoid

**spennny** · 19th April 2011, 07:46

Are these hard to change, anyone done one,

Mines was jammed closed, managed to free and was working fine, just checked and now its jammed open, going to scotland soon so would like to have it fixed ,

How do you access

Cheers

**John LE** · 19th April 2011, 07:49

Iirc you just remove the right hand boot trim panel and the lock just unclips. Mine wasn't locking when I first got the car and it turned out it had just released it's self from the clips

**spennny** · 19th April 2011, 07:51

Any idea on the price for one mate, mines was intermittently not working, recently now i think its gave up the ghost

**spennny** · 19th April 2011, 08:14

ALL SORTED

There are 2 screws inside the actual fuel cap its self, then inside the RHS boot trim, there are a few retaining screws to keep the wire tight, once these are removed and the crews taken out it slides out , the solenoid itself can be removed from the housing, looks as if its just sticky but plenty of oil its working.......... for now

**John LE** · 19th April 2011, 08:16

Mmmmm wonder if it was changed on later models then? Mine definatly just slides into position and clicks in

**spennny** · 19th April 2011, 08:28

Could have been mate, 1st pic is the housinjg that its in, you release from inside the fuel cap, 2nd is the solenoid its self that slides in and out of it,

Maybe you left the housing in and just released the solenoid , which sounds like what u done