Gas is expensive right now — but you know what’s more expensive? Repairing a damaged fuel tank.
It’s kind of ridiculous. Photo after photo shows a hole in gas tanks that’s small enough to miss but big enough to cause thousands of dollars worth of damage. I’ve got almost $2,000 worth of damage is not just in the gas tank but also damaged the fuel pump, which is a pretty big issue. Tyler’s car is just one of the cars in the east Atlanta area that appeared to have been the target of a gas thief. This thief appears to be using a drill to drill a hole to get the gas to spill out and then catch it with a gas can. This is video from someone’s ring camera that shows someone with possibly a gas can getting into a silver Suv right after the homeowner’s truck got hit on sunday Tyler’s camera captured what appears to be the same silver Suv slowly driving through his neighborhood a mile and a half away. I caught the car driving away from my house and it was the same one that others have reported the thefts have popped up in East Atlanta, kirkwood, Edgewood and also into cab county over the past month this picture shows the drill shavings that another woman’s mechanic found in her fuel take after her suv got hit. He went the destructive way of you know, drilling into the gas tank which isn’t repairable rather than siphoning the trend is happening as gas prices in the metro are nearing $4 a gallon. Some of the recent victims are moving their cars into the driveways or into more well lit areas to avoid being targeted again. In the meantime, neighbors are warning others around them that this destructive thief will likely strike again. I mean, I’m sure he’s doing more damage on other cars to it.