I have a 2005 jeep liberty that spews gas when it is refilled. The first incident occurred in 2009 and has progressively gotten worse. The dealership has offered no remedy for this situation.
2005 Jeep Liberty fuel system complaints
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My 2005 jeep liberty spews gas after filling up every time. Estimate was $1800 to replace the fuel tank assembly.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 jeep liberty. The contact stated that when refueling the vehicle, gasoline would spew back out and onto the ground. Neither the dealer nor the manufacturer was contacted in regards to the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 36,000 and the current mileage was 40,000.
Tl*the contact owns a 2005 jeep liberty. The contact stated that whenever she refueled the fuel tank, gasoline fuel would spew back from the tank. The failure recurred whenever the vehicle was refueled. The vehicle was not inspected or repaired for the failure. The current and failure mileage was 109,114. Updated 05/12/11*lj updated 06/17/11 *bf updated 06/30/11
When filling my 2005 jeep liberty with fuel it spits back almost a quart. I have tried different pumps at different stations and it does this every time.
Whenever I fill up my jeep the fuel overflows onto the jeep and on the ground. It has done this for about two years (or more).
As a single mother of baby twins, I am both completely freaked out as well as gratefully relieved to have found this site. The complaints read like a checklist of past issues and god willing, preventable future issues. The gas tank cannot be "topped off"... All things considered, this was a seemingly acceptable issue. The engine light coming on accompanied by totally unexplained stalling every so often became a problem which would cease just as randomly as it occurred. Finally (when pregnant and nervous) I brought it in after one too many times. Apparently this jeep model/year is weather sensitive. Rain seemed to be the catalyst, but I refuse to put one of those anal person car covers on becoming a slave to the weatherchannel. Mechanic changed temperamental sensor which, so far, seems to be managed. The A/C fan only works at 3 and up, which is too much hot/cold for even the most anemic after more than five minutes. Back to the weather, winter causes front struts to creak and moan like a geriatric beast. Once again, this is annoying but seemingly innocuous. Four wheel drive shift only works in part time hi (or low, don't recall), which is disappointing though again, not life threatening. The combination of these defects simply feels as if it was built with indifference to the consumer. Now that I have two priceless passengers, I refuse to wait for the cv joints to disengage before demanding all repairs be made and double checked by my implicitly trusted mechanic (ironically also a twin). In closing, thank you to all who contributed their stories and enlightening me to caution regarding the dangerous flaws as well as commiserating our shared frustration with the problems, like the window track disengaging, which combined are one big expensive potentiality dangerous headache.
Once again, gas shooting out of my 2005 jeep liberty fill instead of the pump shutting off when the tank is full. No it's not "operator error" or "bad fuel" or anything else other than poor design. It happens every time I attempt to fill the vehicle at any pump at any station. This defect has been reported again and again to the federal safety agency by many people and they still refuse to do anything to force chrysler to fix these vehicles. Chrysler refuses to acknowledge any design problem. (and cigarettes are not harmful either).
When I fill the car with gas, gas spurts out of the pump after it shuts off. This is a serious safety issue and it appears that jeep is aware of the problem but has refused to do a recall for the fix. I was told by the dealer that the only way to fix it was to replace the entire gas tank at a cost of over $1,200
After filling the car with gas there are strong fuel odors inside the cabin. This happens each time the car is refueled.
Several months ago, gas started violently splashing back out of the gas tank at the end of every fill-up. I investigated and found this is a well-known and well-documented with a faulty inlet tube check valve. I don't try to overly top off the tank or anything like that. This is not a user issue. See http://www.autoobserver.com/2011/02/chrysler-fuel-spit-back-complaints-rise.html. They call it fuel spit-back. The problem is my make/model isn't one of the ones chrysler has agreed to start helping with, even though it's obviously the same issue. It's very dangerous. Gas is spilling and sometimes spraying outside the car at the end of every single fill-up now.
While refueling, gasoline will splash from the filler neck at the time the pump shuts off. This happens each time we refuel, and we refuel at many different locations. I have attempted to slow down the pump as the last gallon goes in, and even this has not consistently been successful. I would estimate the amount spilled to be an ounce.
Every time I pump fuel, when it reaches capacity it sprays out all over the place.
I just bought a 2005 jeep liberty limited with 90k miles. My last two fillups at different pumps resulted in the pump shutting off but gas spilling down the side of the vehicle. Once was with the autopump lever engaged and once was while holding the pump lever manually. There are so many complaints about this that there needs to be a recall to protect consumers from exposure and protect the environment. Consider the amount of vehicles with this problem dumping gas on the ground on a daily basis. It could be a staggering amount of gas.
Beginning in november, 2010, each time I put gas into my 2005 jeep liberty, the pump did not stop in time and gas spilled out all over the car, on the ground, and on me. As of today, december 10, 2010, is has now happened 6 times at 6 different pumps at multiple gas stations indicating there is something wrong with the car. This problem is very harmful to the environment creating toxic runoff and is harmful to me as I breathe in the fumes.
Fuel spill everytime when fill my jeep liberty.
My 2005 jeep liberty limited 4wd overflows its fuel tank every time it is refueled. The vehicle has less than 30,000 miles on it, and this problem has appeared consistently each of the last 5 times I have refueled. The fuel will continue to fill and then overflow the tank unless manually stopped. The problem occurs regardless of where the fueling occurs; any fuel pump causes the problem. The problem must lie in the fuel tank system of the vehicle itself.
2005 jeep liberty diesel. Fuel/water separator leaks fuel through the heater electrical lines. Known fire hazard that jeep/chrysler has not recalled. Raw fuel runs out the live electrical heater lines.
Gas tank overfills and spills gasoline on every fillup, started occurring at under 70k miles.
Every time I put fuel in my car, the automatic shut off does not engage. I splash gas all over my car and it drips to the ground. If I am not super careful, I also end up with gas on me and I have the smell of fuel on me. I must stand closely to my car, and I must listen to the fuel and guess when to stop pumping. I worries me everytime I fuel my car.
While refueling gas will overflow the filler tube, splashing anywhere from a pint to a quart of fuel onto the ground. This happens on every fill up. The only way to prevent it is to guess when the fuel tank is nearly full and listen for the fuel to approach the top of the filler tube with the fuel flow from the pump as slow as possible. The other alternative is to not fill the tank to full, guessing about where the fuel level is by putting your ear close to the filler hole. In either case there is still danger of spilling fuel onto the ground and on the vehicle itself. The other side effect are high levels of fuel vapor smell inside the vehicle itself. This smell persists for quite some time even with the windows in the down position. This happens every fill up and has been happening for about two years. Doesn't matter which gas station I go to.
2005 jeep crd, fuel heater possible fire hazard. Design allows fuel filter head to melt then air enters the diesel system. Engine may stall on highway dangerous thing! Mines stalled out and been towed couple times. Chrysler has been poor in fixing this problem. If fuel heater was to catch fire filter head and all fuel could burn to crisp in minutes. Maybe make chrylser offer lifetime warranty on these rare diesels. I can see huge lawsuits towards chrysler if someone was to be killed stalling and or burning in vehicle.
When refueling, the pump routinely doesn't shut off until gas has overflowed the tank onto the ground and who ever is pumping the gas. This happens at any gas station.
Jeep liberty crd. Engine was stalling on startup. Odb code came on after a month of this "fuel leak severe". It was loosing prime while sitting due to air leaking in. Found fuel leak on pre-heater connector to fuel water separator housing. Found some burnt plastic where connector was, clearly it got hot/fire. I found numerous incidents of this on-line. Considering there were reportedly less then 10,000 of these built, this is a serious issue.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 jeep liberty. The contact stated while refueling the vehicle, approximately one pint of gasoline began spewing back out from the filler neck onto the contact and the ground. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer for diagnostic testing or repairs. The contact was able to locate numerous complaints online pertaining to the failure and believed the manufacturer should take the liability for the failure. The manufacturer was not contacted. The current and failure mileages were 80,000.
2005 jeep liberty crd pre- heater was leaking and started a fire on the connector. Order new parts to replace heater and they have re-designed it. This is dodge admitting to a problem.
2005 jeep liberty fuel tank overflows during full tank fill-up. This has happened at multiple fill-up stations and is almost certainly not a result of any particular pump defect. During a full-tank fill up the auto-shut will engage but only after spilling fuel over the car and onto the ground creating a dangerous situation. The frequency of the issue has been increasing over the last several months. The problem now occurs after almost ever fill-up. Upon further research this is a common problem experienced by many other owners of this make and model.
While filling fuel tank air trapped in the tank does not vent properly resulting in fuel spillage on the vehicle and ground. This happens at every fill up
At least a year ago I verbally notified john elway jeep-west, now go, that when adding gasoline at the filling station the auto-shut-off did not work and allowed the tank to overflow onto my person, the side of the vehicle and the cement. I was told the gas tank would need to be drained before a determination could be made. I did purchase fuel from three filling stations proving the overflowing was not a result of the equipment pumping gasoline into my vehicle.
The gas tank on my jeep 2005 liberty renegade overflows each time I fill up the car now. This happened the last three times I filled up, even tho we used different brands and gas stations. This is a serious safety hazard as it spills gas all over the person filling and the ground!
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