Yes the 4th Gen RX did. I remember asking a Lexus rep at car show, it locks with the doors.

 

Doesn't seem more complicated than having a separate dedicated electronic latch like our RX had, or a mechanical cable stretching from one corner of the vehicle to the other. Both of which would require a different design and parts for RHD vs. LHD models.

 

Many newer cars don't have an interior release switch. The fuel filler door is spring loaded, and you press the door in and then it pops out. So you need a locking mechanism; there's a pin that locks the fuel filler door when all doors are locked.

But since your Toyota has an interior release, you don't need a separate locking pin, because when the car doors are locked, access to the release switch is not available.

 

My parents had an electric fuel door on their 1990s car. I remember it failed (among almost every other feature). I am sure a manual pull system does fail too

 

Or worse add something to it....when I was living at an apartment some kid shoved rocks/mulch in my Jeeps tank. I probably still have the rocks in the tank, I'll check if I need to replace the pump

 

They totally do, I use that feature on the 460

 

Because I don't have to pull a lever and have a little plastic arm on the floorboard with a cable that can seize or snap off the arm. Plus every electronic locked or release car has a stainless bare cable with small handle hidden away in the trunk if the electric side goes down a you aren't screwed.

 

Someone I know in 1990s, the union members put sugar inside the tank of someone we know

I like the lever over pushing the door in to pop it out. I think the push and pop out feature is a little tacky

 

You are entitled to your opinion. I don't miss the release lever...same tech as my 1983 Honda had.

 

Interesting. The Buick Avalon has pop out

 

Late to the party so I may lack context in this discussion, but I can't stand cars that don't have locked fuel doors.

Know how easy it is to ruin a car that has an exposed filler/thingy??? And how easy it is for an automaker to just design the simplest of locks????

(not speaking at you)

In the MB it stays unlocked when the doors are.

Both Lexus vehicles have locks.

 

Both of my cars lock the fuel door when the doors are locked and it presses to open when the doors are unlocked.

 

You have no quarrel with me on this point, absolutely a context thing. I was responding to “What would be the rationale to lock the fuel door with the doors looking?” with the question you quoted, as a way to point out the answer is the same.

And yes I do. I’ve had a vehicle disabled by having a foreign substance (we believe it was motor oil) dumped in an unlocked tank. Cost about $1800 to fix, almost 20 years ago.

 

It's just, an owner might as well have the hood open... it's that easy to sabotage a vehicle through the gas fill, obviously. (So why don't they get it?)

 

Cadillac used to have an electric door. There was a solenoid, a couple couple other solenoids, etc. there was a fuse inside the fuse box dedicated for that part. And if I remember correctly, the valet mode locked that part out




‘I wonder what the RX is like. I never knew it had an electric lock




Lexus GS had it. Apparently Pontiac in the mid 2000s. Ls460

wonder who else? Anyone know?



do you have to pop the door panel?