Lil help. my gf drove my mark, and now...

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She somehow managed to break the fuel door release button. She did not think to gather any of the pieces other than the plastic top. So I'm missing the spring, and whatever else was in there. At this point, I do not have an easy way to open the fuel door without going into the trunk. Any quick fixes?

She also broke the cupholder AND ash tray mechanisms. How? beats me. Anyhoo, what is the easiest way to remove the middle console to try to repair? Are there just plastic fasteners like the ones for the doors, or are there some screw points?

Thanks,
 
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Sneth said:
She somehow managed to break the fuel door release button. She did not think to gather any of the pieces other than the plastic top. So I'm missing the spring, and whatever else was in there. At this point, I do not have an easy way to open the fuel door without going into the trunk. Any quick fixes?

She also broke the cupholder AND ash tray mechanisms. How? beats me. Anyhoo, what is the easiest way to remove the middle console to try to repair? Are there just plastic fasteners like the ones for the doors, or are there some screw points?

Thanks,
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The only thing I can think of that may be missing is the contact assembly.

The fastest way would be to replace it with an OEM part.

FYI: My GF/wife has been breaking and hot rodding my cars since we were teenagers. It is what they do. You sound like you didn't expect it.

Expect it!.
 
To open the fuel door; inside the trunk in the passenger side. there should be a black plastic tag on a cable. If it is not visible, pull the inside upholstery down and look behind it. pulling on this tag will pop the fuel door open.
Oh, and by the way, my girlfriend/wife would be walking.
 
whiplash15 said:
To open the fuel door; inside the trunk in the passenger side. there should be a black plastic tag on a cable.
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Thats what he is doing now.

On a side note I watched a family of four spend 5 minutes trying to get the fuel door on a Town Car open. Eventually the opened the trunk and spend another 5. I had pulled up, filled my tank, used the restroom and left before they started fueling :D
 
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Thats what he is doing now.

On a side note I watched a family of four spend 5 minutes trying to get the fuel door on a Town Car open. Eventually the opened the trunk and spend another 5. I had pulled up, filled my tank, used the restroom and left before they started fueling :D
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....and you didn't even offer to help??????
 
budpytko said:
....and you didn't even offer to help??????
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Are you kidding! It was too fun watching the husband and wife walk around the car, looking all over and chatting about what to do.

Oh, I forgot the best part. They even parked with the pump on the wrong side.
 
But they were driving a Lincoln, Hook a brother up. If they were driving something else then you have fun, and if it's a ricer then you tell them you have to get under the car and use a left handed hammer.:)
 
The fuel button includes a spring, a metal "triangle" and the button. Mine broke too, its not your GF's fault, it just goes! You can use a paperclip to touch the contacts in the inside of the button. You have to hit them both at the same time. Its either this(the hard way) or the trunk trick until you replace the button.

Once you get yourself a new button, just use a small screw driver to pry the bad one up and it will pull right out of the door panel.
 
Sneth said:
She somehow managed to break the fuel door release button. She did not think to gather any of the pieces other than the plastic top.
She also broke the cupholder AND ash tray mechanisms.

Any quick fixes?
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Yeah...get a new girlfriend.
 
yeah. well the reason she was driving my car.... she totaled hers...

I had mixed feelings about letting her drive, but the Mark usually sits around as I got a company car with free gas right now.

these are just the things I have found, and she has come forward with. There are all sorts of random stains from soda and makeup too. I am one of those people that doesn't leave trash in the car....she is...

I think her lincoln privileges have been revoked.
 
I am one of those people that doesn't leave trash in the car....she is...

join the club dude, everytime we ( the family ) have somewhere to go we take my wife's mark, before we leave i'm already fighting with her about how she doesnt give a rats ass about the responsability of vehicle upkeep. her car is a rolling dumpster from juice boxs and candy to coloring books and melted crayons and markers, i have turned around and gone back in the house a few times telling her to go without me, i refuse to be seen in public in such a dump. and her come back is always, well i dont have all the time that you do to clean the car out, WRONG, it has nothing to do with time, its about keeping something you own in good shape and clean and not taking so much crap inside the car that it gets to be too much to clean. see, i bought her the car, i keep the car going, and i pay the insurance on it, so why should she have to keep it clean, its a free car, she thinks i'll clean it too, i will, when i put a match to it on some secluded back road.
 
I read somewhere, maybe here, that woman think that a car is like a purse but bigger. :)


edited to add: That's not all woman Trixie. ;)
 
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button went out on mine too, on the fuel door there is an arm that is part of the lock its a small nut i took that off and if you dont mind a fuel door that doesnt lock its a temporary fix.
 
You guys are a bunch of wimps! The way to handle Trixie is to get right in her face and say:

"Yes, Dear!"
 
Sneth said:
yeah. well the reason she was driving my car.... she totaled hers...

I had mixed feelings about letting her drive, but the Mark usually sits around as I got a company car with free gas right now.

these are just the things I have found, and she has come forward with. There are all sorts of random stains from soda and makeup too. I am one of those people that doesn't leave trash in the car....she is...

I think her lincoln privileges have been revoked.
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This sounds like my sister - she and I are complete opposites on the treatment of cars. She has so much junk in her 4-door car, she has to move piles in order for you to sit in it. No thanks! Her cars are always wrecked, with one or both front/rear valances broken, from running into curbs. They're always covered in so much mud, you honestly can't see the paint through it. Disgusting!! I leave nothing in the car, not even my beaters. It's not hard to take your trash out when you park it. I always carry a minimum of 1 washrag in the center console, and two towels in the trunk - just in case. :mad-tilt:
 
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