I had just filled up the gas tank and was departing a gas station. It was a large parking lot, so I was accelerating to merge onto us-19 in homossassa springs, fl and the engine stalled completely. Luckily, we had not exited the gas station parking lot and I was able to steer out of traffic and come to a complete stop. This has happened multiple times since the first occurrence, without injury, or accident. Ever since the third occurrence and a review of online literature, we never completely fill up the gas tank anymore.

- Panama City, FL, USA

After a fill up and driving a short distance, the engine sputtered and stalled while sitting at a stop light. This happened 2 or 3 other times right after filling the tank completely full and then driving the vehicle a short distance to the first intersection. What I discovered is that I can no longer fill the tank until the gas pump automatically shuts off. This is a hazard and potentially life threatening defect. From what I can gather, the problem is the vapor/liquid separator valve located at the top of the fuel tank.

- Maryville, TN, USA

The contact owns a 2006 Chrysler Town and country. While traveling approximately 35 mph and immediately after refueling, the vehicle suddenly stalled. The vehicle was restarted and resumed normal operation. The failure occurred multiple times. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 17,000.

- Allison Park, PA, USA

For 3 months now, everytime the vehicle is fueled, the engine begins to stall and sputter. This happened on 2/20/2014 at 5pm after leaving the fueling station and the car stalled in the middle of a turn through a heavy traffic intersection, I lost power steering at a critical point in the turn and crossed one lane and almost into a concrete wall before muscling the steering wheel into a safe spot to try to restart the vehicle. I have been seeing a lot of reports about a failure with the vapor liquid separator valve on the gas tank that allow liquid to fill the charcoal canister which inturn sends raw liquid fuel rather than vapor into the engine intake causing an extremely rich mixture causing the stalling and sputtering. This is happening after every refuel and I am seeing hundreds of Chrysler owners complaining of the same problem. Chrysler denied ever hearing about this problem when I called their customer service number to inquire. Apparently the fix is to replace the fuel tank. Sounds like a very unsafe design flaw to me.

- Dumfries, VA, USA

Vehicle stalled after refueling. Placed vehicle in park and restarted it, but then continued to stall one or two more times. After making it home, vehicle drove fine for next 6 months or so. About 6 months later, refueled and stalled when leaving gas station. Placed vehicle in park and restarted. Stalled two more times then drove home without incident. Several hours later drove vehicle to dealer and was told "evaporative vapor cannister full of fuel making its way out of vent". evaporative vapor cannister was replaced.

- New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA

Re: niosh investigation PE 13-016 engine stall. Subject of the cited investigation, stalling while driving after fueling may be characteristic of 2006 Chrysler Corp. Minivans (3.8 L engine) as well, based on messages in a Chrysler minivan E-mail list. Comments indicate that this is a known problem which requires replacement of the fuel tank. My van did this four or five times in the year after my first instance. It was then sold (for unrelated reasons.) once, I talked with the gas station attendant for a few minutes before leaving the station, and had trouble starting the engine. It came to be my belief that the problem could be avoided or minimized by starting the engine and driving away from the gas station as soon as possible after replacing the fuel cap, believing that vapors from evaporating fuel would overload the vapor recovery system if the car were allowed to sit.

- San Jose, CA, USA