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I recently acquired a 95 Contour, the gas door is open and does NOT latch. The plastic "pin" was broke off. How do you repair/replace this ? How does it come off ? I got into the trunk and disconnected the linkage, but cannot figure out how to remove.
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I suppose you could just get a later model year door that just kind of wedges shut, and replace it with that. And just rip the other crap out.
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we just replaced that on my 96. You have to go in through the trunk and replace the pin. It is not hard. Go to a junk yard and find a contour and just remove the pin. You will have to pull the trunk liner and remove the rin and pin.
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if you don't wanna bother buying a new one, all you need is a coat hanger, a drill-press (with a small drill bit, thick as coat hanger wire) , some glue, wire cutters and a big flat blade screwdriver.
pull back the trunk liner, so you can get to the metal pin that pulls back the plastic pin, and unhook it.
from outside the car, useing the flat blade, pop out the circular gromet that the plastic catch pin is mounted inside.
once it's out pull out the plastic pin and put it in a drill press and drill a hole straight down though, but not all the way. cut a straight piece of coat hanger wire about an inch and a half long put a little glue in the hole on the plastic pin and stick the wire into it. depending on how much of your plastic pin got snapped off, you will have to cut some of the wire down to fit it right.
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.. you could go through all those suggestions or you could just put velcro on the gas cover and the inside. That way you will just have to pull the cover out and push in when you you have completed filling it up.
"Always do the cheap and easy ones first."
1996 V6 ATX 96K miles
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Originally posted by Tony2005:
.. you could go through all those suggestions or you could just put velcro on the gas cover and the inside. That way you will just have to pull the cover out and push in when you you have completed filling it up.
Not bad Tony! 
Got my compass jick-jacked on the dash of my truck with the comp-type velco.
95 Contour, 2.0L, stick, 178K mi.
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Originally posted by Rager:
Originally posted by Tony2005:
.. you could go through all those suggestions or you could just put velcro on the gas cover and the inside. That way you will just have to pull the cover out and push in when you you have completed filling it up.
Not bad Tony!
Got my compass jick-jacked on the dash of my truck with the comp-type velco.
 ROTFL. That's my style and advice. "Always do the cheap and easy ones first."
"Always do the cheap and easy ones first."
1996 V6 ATX 96K miles
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velcro doesn't work, i tried that too, and it just kept coming off on one side, i tried gum too, which only worked about 10 minutes, i was about to tape it shut becasue nothing was working and everyone alwasy felt the need to remind me that my gas flap was open but the velcro doesn't work, the sticky glue on the back isn't strong enouhg and doesn't hold up to water or weather (hot or cold) well at all
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Radio Shark Super Tape This is the velcro-type stuff I was talking about. HTH
95 Contour, 2.0L, stick, 178K mi.
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