The contact owns a 2017 Volkswagen GTI. The contact stated upon pulling into a parking spot, the vehicle started sputtering. There was no warning light illuminated. The contact pushed the vehicle into the parking spot. The contact noticed that gas was leaking from the fuel tank onto the ground. The dealer and the manufacturer were not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 22,000.
2017 Volkswagen GTI fuel system complaints
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The fuel tank and charcoal canister in this vehicle have had to be replaced twice, once by the dealer I purchased from (weeks prior to purchase) and again not even a week after purchase. It was reported that the charcoal canister flooded while fueling, however I never top off my vehicles. This issues seems to be common in this particular make and model. I noticed it by smell at first, but didn't investigate until I noticed a significant decline in my fuel level overnight, while parked. Once I began to investigate I noticed a fuel leak near the fueling door at the rear passenger side of the vehicle.
Fuel tank would not accept refueling. When checked out was found that tank was leaking gas. Car was taken to the dealer and they stated the car was out of warranty and acknowledged the fuel tank was leaking gasoline. The car has never been involved in an accident of any type.
Could not pump gas into the gas tank. Could insert the pump nozzle into the opening to the gas tank. When tried to pump gas, gas would not go into the tank and spill out. This problem is already a recall on the vw gti 2015 model. Vehicle was stationary at a gas pump.
First noticed strong fuel smell coming from rear passenger side wheel well. Fuel smell dissipated after around 45 minutes. The next time I drove the car, it began bucking as if there was a fuel pressure error. By the time I limped the car into my driveway, fuel was pouring out of the same wheel well. The car has leaked fuel on two more occasions since then. I've since found out that this is a known issue that volkswagen addressed in safety recall 20y6. Faulty elements in the fuel tank are causing gasoline to purge into the evap system and then leak through the evap canister, down onto the wheel well. Vw apparently made a business decision not to include 2017 golfs in that recall, despite being identical cars. A quick look through these complaints or in various volkswagen forums will show that this issue is common and popping up in more and more 2017 cars at around 35k miles.
7-3-2020: drove car in drive mode and sport mode throughout the afternoon, stopped to talk to someone and car sat on a flat surface, idling when suddenly there was gasoline leaking out of the rear right wheel well. Parked the car for the night, had no more leakage. 7-4-2020: drove to vw dealer/service about 20 minutes away in drive mode, did not have replication of the gasoline leak. 7-6-2020: vw called and said they couldn't replicate the problem. He said they drove it, had it idle, put it on a flat and an angled surface, looked at everything while it was on a lift.. Saw nothing. I was out of town so I picked the car up on 7-13-2020. 7-13-2020: picked up car and drove half a mile to gas station to fill up. Car immediately would not allow fuel to be added, popping the gas handle lever every half gallon. I called vw and he said to try another pump. I didn't have time to continue checking so I drove the car, in drive mode, and had no problem. 7-15-2020: finally had time to try another gas pump, had the same issue with car not allowing gas to be filled, popping gas handle lever again every half gallon. Decided to take it back to vw. Briefly put the car in sport mode and felt like the car was starved of fuel. Had my husband follow behind me to vw. Decided to put it into sports mode about a mile from vw and husband called me within seconds to tell me my vw was leaking fuel, varying from a steady drip to stream. Half a mile up the road I pulled into vw service and fuel was legit gushing out, creating a puddle the size of a small baby pool, were there not a drain for it to drain into in the service garage. Currently awaiting word about diagnosis.
At 47,000 miles the vehicle would not allow fuel to be put into the tank. Taken to dealership to be told that the suction pump inside gas tank was over pressurizing the tank causing fuel to shoot out of the gas filling tube. This exact same issues was in the 2015 and 2016 models and recall 20y6 addressed them. Now the 2017 model is doing the same and they are refusing to fix the item under warranty. Leaving these vehicle at high risk of catching fire due to fuel being expelled from the tank when engine is running.
I am having the exact issue from the 2015-2016 gti suction pump recall. My car is a 2017 gti and is leaking through the charcoal canister filter. When I try to fill the tank it's cutting off the flow from the gas nozzle as if the tank was full but when I check the tank is almost empty.
Started to notice a fuel odor in the vicinity of the right-rear wheel while the car was parked inside my garage. Moved the car immediately outside on my driveway. Drove the car once or twice during the following week. As the car was parked on the driveway the odor persisted. Then one afternoon a puddle of gas was on my driveway (about one pint of liquid) - the car had not been driven in 2 days when the puddle appeared. Notified my local vw dealer and scheduled the repair. The dealer determined that the charcoal canister was filled with fuel - assuming that I overfilled the tank, which I don't believe happened. When the leak occurred the fuel tank was approximately 3/4 full. The dealer replaced the leak detection pump, n80 purge valve, and the charcoal canister. The repair was not covered under warranty. The car has 55,578 miles on it and I have owned it just less than 3 years.
Tl* the contact owns a 2017 volkswagen gti. The contact stated that fuel spilled onto the ground while the contact attempted to fill the fuel tank. As a result, the contact was unable to fill up the fuel tank. The contact drove the vehicle home and noticed that the fuel level had dropped. The contact parked the vehicle and found that fuel spilled out of the fuel tank while driving and the fuel tank was empty. The manufacturer was not contacted. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 50,000.
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