When I first got my X-terra I could find a release for the gas tank, and there wasn't a finger dimple on the fuel door to pull it up. Couldn't find any thing in the owners manual. Went back and had the salesman show me the easy push the front of the door to make it open trick. (At this point I had been a licensed rolls mechanic for over a year.) Just goes to show any one can over think simple **** and make it complicated.

And you are two years late to this thread to boot.

I'm new I'm going through all the old threads. Learning a lot from it.