98 Integra Gas Cap

I had a problem with the CEL coming on here and there with my 98 Integra...
we'd tighten it down and reset and it'd be fine for a while. Recently i had
to have an emissions test done and they discovered it was a bad gas cap -
the rubber seal was failing. Is this normal for a car that's relatively
young? I've had older vehicles that didn't have that problem.

Thanks...
-Megan

"nntp.aioe.org" wrote in message

>I had a problem with the CEL coming on here and there with my 98 Integra...
>we'd tighten it down and reset and it'd be fine for a while. Recently i
>had to have an emissions test done and they discovered it was a bad gas
>cap - the rubber seal was failing. Is this normal for a car that's
>relatively young? I've had older vehicles that didn't have that problem.
>
> Thanks...
> -Megan
>
Older vehicles may have had the problem but never let you know. The CEL is
from the OBDII requirement to annoy - ahh, alert - you if the evaporative
control has a fault. So before 1996 cars didn't let you know if your gas cap
was bad while post-1996s do.

Note - dates generalized.

Mike