Re: New Gas Tank Issue

Posted by fredkanter On 2016/8/11 11:16:39

I appreciate your comments and yes we do put much thought and care into our products. Years ago we switched to a new water pump rebuilder and over 50% of the first 20 pumps we sold came back as leakers. We knew what action to take. We now manufacture brand new pumps and out of 5000 one or two were leakers, we did not need to take any action.

With the tanks, we have sold over 150 and have only one customer(who is on this site) who appears to have a problem. We will not be recalling 150 tanks in this situation but we will dom everything to determine what the problem is. We have our own car with a new tank and have no problem.

As to "Do it once and do it right" , we seem to have done that on 149 tanks or 99+% or maybe 100%, time will tell. As the customer wants to fill in the notch or move it that is his choice and he realizes it may not be the fix needed.

On the other hand if our experienced tank manufacturer had not put the notch in and customers who were inadvertently using an unvented cap experienced fuel starvation might say, "You should have known that the wrong cap might be used and you should have put a notch in as other reproducers do"

Moral: No good deed goes unpunished