THE NEW GAS CAP IS HERE

I'm pretty sure no one else will be as excited about this as I am, but MY NEW GAS CAP IS HERE.

Here, a little rant.

A month or so ago, a new warning on my 2005, 250,000-mile Honda Pilot, but one I can't ignore, because CHECK FUEL CAP is now obscuring one of the most important dashboard instruments: The thermometer.

So I went to the auto parts store, being the forward-thinking man that I am, and bought a new gas cap. The old one had hung on for 250,000 miles and by golly, if a $14 gas cap could get rid of that dashboard warning, so be it. No matter that the other dashboard warnings, one for TPMS and the other for the airbag, go unanswered. I should probably look into those, thought I'm convinced TPMS is a system set up on Hondas to slow let the air out of the rear drivers' side tire. And airbag, I have *never* used that thing.

And for a while, the CHECK FUEL CAP error cleared, so smooth sailing.

Then it came back. Then it disappeared but was replaced by the dreaded CHECK ENGINE LIGHT. So my youngest, checking on his own vehicle, took it to the mechanic who read the error codes and deduced it's probably due to the cheap gas cap I bought, since 95% of the errors linked to the evaporative whatever system on Pilots is linked to a faulty gas cap, and the non-OEM ones tend to not fix the problem.

Thus the new gas cap.

I'll put it on tonight after work, drive around for awhile and hope that the error clears. Maybe I'll have to go clear it myself. Or I can make my son do it. I've earned the money for the $35 gas cap, after all.