ATTN spyder owners possible fire hazzard

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Just a heads up...don't know if any of you have had very bad gas leak from the gas tank? Friday me and wife took the buggy out to Sonic drive in for fun and we got home and parked the buggy, about 3 hours later we woke up to a house filled with gas vapor...walked into the garage and to my horror found a very large puddle of gas on the garage floor and gas pouring out of the tank...pulled the tank off and where the nozzle comes out of the tank...gas was flowing around it Evil or Very Mad

I have no idea why this happened...I always walk around the buggy for a quick check before leaving it and the buggy was driven on the street the whole time...so nothing could have hit the tank Confused

My best guess would be the Buggy gremlins where after me...or maybe it was built in china...LOL
anyways you guys might want to check and make sure the nozzle on the bottom of your tank is not lose...I did a quick fix with some JB weld and it seems to be fine now.
Had it started pouring out when we riding the buggy...I am sure that would have been a fire:shock: which would have been not so fun Shocked

But would made some cool pics and a story Very Happy

anyways just giving a heads up Very Happy

I can snap a few pics later if anyone is confused of what area I am talking about

Winst

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Built in CHINA??? Who here would buy a buggy built in China? Laughing

Sorry 'bout the gas leak dude. Good thing you found it when you did. It would have been really bad news had it caught fire Shocked

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I had a small leak from where the petcock screws into the gas tank when we were first putting the cart together, but I tightened it down, and we haven't had an issue since. I will check it out again, however.

Thanks for the heads up