New Fuel Tank 1480..!!!!!!!

Last Wednesday I hop in my truck to head to work and the low fuel warning pops up. I thought to myself, that funny, I just topped the truck of last night. It has been very cold and my initial thought was bad fuel indicating circuit. 1 mile later truck dies and I am out of gas. So I am thinking okay someone stole my gas. Well had a gallon in a can with me, put it in and truck almost starts and then I notice gas poring out form underneath my tank.

My initial thoughts well a gas line somehow came loose. Call Toyota care and get towed to the dealer. They called me back, and the service manager tells me there were holes drilled in the bottom of the tank and it will cost 1480.00 to replace!!!!!!!!!

I was skeptical, so I went outside and no shit, there are plastic drill shavings in the driveway. Apparently douchbags have been out stealing gas from trucks and SUV's by drilling the gas tanks. A number of trucks and SUV's got hit and I was one of them. Insurance will cover all but my deductible. SO I am out 500.00 bucks. I hope these guys who did this has a tank explode while they are doing this.

 

Haven't heard of that before... that sucks man. What a bunch of assholes, whatever happened to siphoning?

 

Wow, that really sucks! Where do you live?

 

That SUCKS ! sorry to hear ... last year one of my wife's co-workers went to leave work after working the night shift and noticed when he started his vehicle it was extremely loud, he got out to investigate and found someone had cut off his catalytic converter
.... what was the plastic shavings from ? Unbelievable the crap these thieves do, what they should do is go get a damn job!

 

Gas is cheap now. Damnt.

 

Crap, that sucks!

 

Plastic fuel tank in 3rd Gen tacoma

 

Wichita, KS

 

Wow, that sucks, I hate thieves!

 

Oh .. didn't know that, add that to the list of all the plastic stuff i do know about on my 3rd gen Tacoma

 

and 2nd gen

 

Sorry to hear.

@Pelfreybilt gas tank skid (and now Anti Gasoline theft device) FTW!

 

They would need a pretty good size bit to get through that

 

Plastic fuel tanks are not a new thing.


Sucks ass OP.

 

Or just drill the side

 

Well I'm glad I bought an RCI fuel skid during the group buy

 

Punk ass gas thieves are not that smart.

 

Uh yeah , OK

they figured out how to bypass the anti syphon system by drilling holes in the tank but won't figure out that if they don't want to drill through a skid covering the bottom of the gas tank , they could just drill the tank in the side , like right there , you know where they would be when they were trying to drill your tank

Legit

 

Or go on to the next car, which is a straight shot from the bottom...

Sometimes, they are just smart enough to avoid that "little extra effort"

Thieves are not only stupid, they are lazy.