My dealer stopped by today to adjust the parking brake light switch on my 2520. While he was here I asked him to look at how close the hood is to my fuel cover. It was close the first time he looked at it. Then a weird thing happened. When he tried to close the hood it hit the cover so bad that it almost bent the hood. I turned to him and said "see, I told you this was a problem with these machines". He spent some time looking it over and ended up taking that support bracket out and bending it like many of you have done. After bending the bracket the fuel cap was exactly in the center of the hood cuttout. The good news is that since he took time to fix it he will claim the cost with JD as warranty service and it will get written up. Everyone who has a 2520 that's still under warranty with the least bit of gas cap interference should ask their dealer to fix it. Perhaps JD will eventually get the message.