Originally Posted By: gregk24
Yes, but have you guys ever used this type of bottle? You would literally have to break the bottle to get it open, It would be very obvious that someone opened it. This is why I say that it was Meguiars fault.
I'm very experienced with Meguiar's "tamper" proof bottles they're all the same, it doesn't take a genius to open them. And right now I have on my very shelf several of them I refill with various detailing liquids because Meguiars spray bottles spray a very nice and consistent mist.
Notice the ratchets only go part way around? It's this way because you can't make them go all the way around because they wouldn't be able to ratchet the caps on if they did go all the way around.
Simply squeeze the area without the ratchets and unscrew, when the bottom of the cap passes the ratchets the cap is free to rotate without needing to squeeze. Easy. I found this out after throwing away a couple of empties tearing them up determined to refill such nice spraying bottles.
I highly doubt Meguiar's would let water just pass by their quality control line. I more believe that a persistent person of dubious ethics learned how to open these because they're determined enough to be so unethically bloody cheap and found out how to open these bottles trying to refill them and got the bright idea that they can now refill them from a new bottle and use the "big box lifetime warranty", ie buy a new item, swap in the old item and return. With a hard to identify liquid in a supposedly tamper proof bottle, it's made even easier and the clerks will never know unlike trying to return a broken car stereo or TV they can't just open it and look and see that the goods were swapped.
Thieves are smarter than you give them credit for.