2026 - on Locking fuel cap, let's find a solution.
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Racer
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2026 - on Locking fuel cap, let's find a solution.
Rather than just vent our frustrations here, how about we do something?
I looked online, GM does produce locking gas caps for similar capless tanks.
So...
1. Why don't we ask GM if any of those will fit?
2. If not, ask them to make one. After all, the C8 will be around for a couple more years, so there will be a market.
3. Does anyone know if a non GM unit will work?
An internet search brings up a couple of low profile units that look promising from MotoRad and Stant.
I don't want to buy one and then it won't fit.
If nothing else, how about anyone with a late '26 C8 or "27 on order, contact or call the Corvette concierge. Corvetteconcierge@chevrolet.com and ask the question.
I looked online, GM does produce locking gas caps for similar capless tanks.
So...
1. Why don't we ask GM if any of those will fit?
2. If not, ask them to make one. After all, the C8 will be around for a couple more years, so there will be a market.
3. Does anyone know if a non GM unit will work?
An internet search brings up a couple of low profile units that look promising from MotoRad and Stant.
I don't want to buy one and then it won't fit.
If nothing else, how about anyone with a late '26 C8 or "27 on order, contact or call the Corvette concierge. Corvetteconcierge@chevrolet.com and ask the question.
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Racer
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Even if you haven't, the title clearly states "2026 -on", so someone reading it should figure that there has been a change somewhere.
Why not?
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Not that I know of. In 2024 they did replace the built in GM nav system, which obtained map data from the on board SD card, with a Google Maps nav app hosted in the infotainment system that obtains its map data via the "internet" and it requires an OnStar subscription with a data plan to provide the map data (or a workaround). So that is pay to play for the nav app hosted in the infotainment system. But the CarPlay and Android Auto features were still supported. I have read that the when using CarPlay or Android Auto in 2024 and later models, the screen size has shrunk a little because of additional, annoying icons added to the perimeter of the screen.
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GM and other car makers are increasingly going to pay to play. GM, "In the past nine months, GM's software generated $2 billion, and customers have already signed up for about $5 billion in future subscriptions."
Subscriptions have the highest return there is for the car manufacturers.
On-Star- "The company said it now has 11 million subscribers for its OnStar safety system, up 34% from a year earlier." "According to data released in General Motors’ latest Q4 earnings report, deferred revenue from OnStar services (including Super Cruise) reached $5.4 billionby the end of last year."
Subscriptions have the highest return there is for the car manufacturers.
On-Star- "The company said it now has 11 million subscribers for its OnStar safety system, up 34% from a year earlier." "According to data released in General Motors’ latest Q4 earnings report, deferred revenue from OnStar services (including Super Cruise) reached $5.4 billionby the end of last year."
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@Exia it does not anymore. In early versions of the 2026 manual it describes in detail all about the locking fuel door. But version B , now on the Chevy website has deleted all references to locking fuel door from the manual. And 2026 models are being delivered without it.
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This is about on par with the removal of the keyed locking mechanism for the trunk that was removed for 2023 and up C8s'.
