Went Through Car Wash with Gas Flap Door Open.

[jkasch]

'14 Jeep GC with capless system. Either I did a stupid thing, or it popped open. It ran fine coming home a couple miles.

What are the odds water entered the tank, and if some might have, would a bottle of HEET be okay for peace of mind? Or does the ethanol in E15 make it redundant?

Wife has to drive the vehicle a couple hours tomorrow. Just want to make sure she won't have problems related to this.

Thanks.

 

[eljefino]

E15 will have lots of ethanol. I imagine the capless engineers put enough spring pressure in there to be safe even with the cosmetic door open.

 

[Bottom_Feeder]

It's totaled.

 

[mr_boring]

The Ford capless are very very water resistant and I imagine all of them are about the same, but HEET hurts nothing (except maybe 2 stroke stuff) and if it makes you feel better, pour in one or 3. Yellow HEET Methanol is like a Coke, you can mix it with anything, and it will make your E15 more like E16 (which is to say, there is no real benefit)

 

[KGMtech]

It's fine.

 

[jkasch]

Thanks again.

 

[GMBoy]

They thought about things like that happening when capless was designed. There are redundant seals - you are fine.

 

[Dave9]

If any water has pooled up at the top of the filler tube, I'd absorb that out with a sponge. Otherwise, do nothing until it idles funny and then add some drygas or fill up the tank with ethanol blend fuel.