Car is about 6 years old when gas starts overflowing and spraying all over before the automatic gas pump shuts off at my regular station. I try a few different gas stations. After my wife gets sprayed in the face I take it back to dealer. Dealer quickly diagnoses problem as faulty vent/gas tank and goes to order a new one. He thinks it will be covered by a recall. Turns out the car VIN is outside the recall dates. ALSO there are NO tanks available in his normal supply line. Chrysler is in financial trouble, and parts are hard to find. We search the internet for third party aftermarket tank. There are none to be had. I tell them the obvious solution is to remove a tank from a newer used vehicle on the lot and put it in mine. They refuse. After making a big deal of threatening to stand in the new and used car showroom informing anyone who walks in the door what is going on with my Durango I get to talk with the Dealer's owner. He agrees to remove the tank from the used car. I pay $600.00 and a in a few days I have my Durango. About 3 months later I get a check from Dodge, the car IS now covered under the recall.

I have learned to keep track of how much fuel my gas tank will hold when I fuel up because the minute I don't, the gas spits out all over the place. I was fortunate enough that the gas did not spray on me or injure anyone. The first time it happened I thought maybe I caused it, but the few times after that I realized that something was wrong with the cut off sensor that tells your vehicle when it is full. So I have adjusted to stopping it myself before it overflows. However, now I have a big 3x3 inch patch of rust where the gas has eaten away at my paint. It needs to be repaired before the rust continues to eat at the paint. I also have noticed that every Durango I see with the same body style has rust in the same spot which indicates that an ongoing problem is present. I don't think I should have to pay for the repairs. It needs to be taken care of in a recall.

Reason for filing a Vehicle Safety Complaint is as follows; Every time I have tried to fill-up my gas tank on my 2005 Dodge Durango, the gas not only starts to shoot out of the tank itself, but also all over my truck, myself and all over the floor. The Security Dodge Dealer where the vehicle was originally purchased is insisting there is no such recall for this serious and dangerous issue. On top of that, they are suggesting that I take it in for a diagnostic evaluation and pay $ 110.00 an hour labor fee. Please note I am a smoker though not proud of it. Even if I weren't I can't understand why they refuse to see this as a incident/accident waiting to happen now or in the future. I would think this would be less of a cost to them, rather taking a chance with a life or lives being lost. Priorities ?????? In the meantime I'll continue to have to carry lots of paper towels when getting gas.

Let me tell you what this is. We have a 2005 Dodge Durango. Same issue. I complained to the dealer NUMEROUS times from about 2007 through 2009. They always dismissed me. They had the gall to ask me if I knew how to fill gas (note, I am 45 and have been pumping gas since I was a little kid). They then told me that it was 'a common known problem of gas station pump handles'. They suggested I switch filling stations (I live in Omaha, and there is a gas station on every corner. It is not unusual for me to use 4 or 5 different gas stations a month, and they all did it). Every time I reported this, they told me I was the only person that EVER reported this, so it had to be something I was doing wrong. They always made me feel like an idiot for reporting it by dismissing me, and being condescending. This was in 2010, and we were getting towards end of our 5 year warranty, so I video taped it. I then brought the video tape to them, but they refused to look at the video tape without an appointment. It was a dang 20 second video on my phone, and they refused to look at it without an appointment. So I had to make an appointment to show them the 20 second video. They couldn't get me in for a few weeks. Note, the time it took to set up the appointment was almost 10 times as long as the video tape itself. So we set up an appointment for them to view my 20 second video. When I came in, I had just passed the end of the warranty. I told them why I was there. The mechanic said 'oh, we don't need to look at your video tape, we know what is causing that. We see that all the time'. I swear I could have choked him. He said, it's a valve in your gas fill tube. But they have to replace the entire gas tank to fix it. 900$ please. I said, well, it's under warranty. I freaking kid you not, he said 'you are a couple 100 miles past warranty'. He told me I had to pay the full amount. Of course these CROOKS, NEVER ONCE documented that I had been complaining about this for over 2 years. So that's your issue. You need a new gas tank. It's a manufacturers defect but those crooked bastards won't admit it. i will NEVER buy another Dodge. These people are so crooked and rotten that they do NOT deserve to be fit for society.

We have had the vehicle into the Dodge dealer several times regarding the gas spitting out of the tank when you fill it. The dealer stated there was nothing wrong with it and it was not in the recall. The vehicle has done this since it was brand new. It is a beautiful vehicle, fairly low mileage that we have taken very good care of. The paint is cracking off on the rear quarter panel under the gas tank and rusting out. There must be some correlation. Chrysler corporation has told us that we need to pay for this ourselves because the vehicle wasn't part of the recall. Obviously, there is a problem and they are well aware that many others have the same issue.

Have the same problem as everyone else. When I fill the tank it does not shut off till fuel blows out all over everything. I just bought it used and we took it on a trip. I filled it when we left and it blew out. I thought it was the gas pump. Then on our way back from the trip it did it again. This time I was wearing sandals and it got all over my hands and feet. I was in the gas station rest room washing my feet off!!!!! Had to smell gas for 3 hours all the way home. Not good to smell like strong gas with kids in the car.

What can I do to fix this problem myself. I have good mechanical skills or can I still get this covered under a recall.

there are two recalls for dodge on this very problem. dealer says tough cookie boxes, chrysler says tough, the vin wasnt covered in the other recalls but I can have it fixed at my own expense, I have filed a claim with NHTSA, we'll see how far that goes.

Update from Dec 27, 2010: Hi ya all.

I filed complaints with NHTSA and the FTC then I filed a complaint with dodge online. I got a call back from them and they open a case file.

After taking the truck in and them filling the gas tank they discovered that it did spew gas. Dodge offered to split the cost with me for 260.00 I told them that i would not accept that and i would expect the same treatment given to those customers in the recall.(free replacement) The case manager kept saying 260 bucks, filnally i asked him to speak to his supervisor-very politely- we kept going back to the 260 and i kept asking for a supervisor or manager. finally he said he would look back over the documents and call me back.. When he did he offered a "warranty repair" with a50 dollar deductable. Which i took. Total bill over 620 dollars and I finally got satisfaction for 50 dollars.

I have been experiencing gas spewing out of my vehicle now for sometime. I have a 2005 Dodge Durango 5.7L V8. Each and every time I bring it in to have it looked at -at the dealers, they claim "they can not duplicate the problem".....FUNNY THEY ARENT FILLING IT UP and letting it splash all over them!! Because I get it back with the problem still in tow-the tank on E, the we can not duplicate the problem excuse and today I was just told its the "vent valve and not the inlet or intake valve so its not covered under the extended warranty"......NICE!

Well, I am NOT going to take this lying down DODGE....so if it takes me contacting the NHST, then so be it, rest assured if this is how Dodge treats their customers-I will take my business elsewhere. This is not the first time I have had this truck in for the same problem and when I bring it in thinking it will be repaired for the recall, what happens 10 minutes after picking it up?? Getting dowsed in gasoline at the pump after again trying to fill up!!