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on jan. 16, my wife went to pump gas into my 2001 civic ex and flames came bursting out from the fuel tank. i took it to Stockton honda and they claim that it was due to STATIC ELECTRICITY, so i had to pay for any repairs. this is B.S. cause my wife closed the door behind her and touched the lid to the fuel tank, and besides, the cap is made of plastic. my point is that Static would have been discharged by the time she opened the cap. I was wondering if anybody else experienced this, or can give me a better(more legit) answer? oh.. by the way, contact me if it happends to you in the future. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/IMG]


oops! sorry... i caught it, wrong place to post this.

 
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That's weird on cars but I used to work on airplanes and we were supposed to ground ourselves before refueling, this was more enforced if the place we where stationed at, had a lot of static charges.
I've never heard nothing like that on cars but it's possible!

 
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if you dont agree with them contact american honda

 
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Actually i have heard about this kinda thing happening before, although i have never experienced it. It does happen though, heard bout it on car talk...... unfortuantly i forget the advice[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif[/IMG]

 
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This might sound like BS but....
I heard about 2 years ago or so that their was celebrity that was filling gas into is ferrari or lamborgini...something like that and the samething happened to him. I remember seeing on the news, just don't remember the celeb's name...think it was a member of a band ...

 
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d00d...you're from stockton? If so which state? I am from Stockton, CA. WHat color 7th gen do you drive? Seen alot of modified 7th gens around here.

 
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What kind of mods?