I have a 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan with approximately 96,000 miles.
Since about September 2008, my car has had a problem with stalling
ONLY after I fill up the tank with gas. I fill up the tank, drive
away from the station. As soon as I come to a stop, the car stalls.
It will start up fine again, and then seems to drive fine after this.
I fill the tank about twice a week and at first I noticed the problem
maybe every other fill up. For the last 3 weeks, its been consistently
stalling every fill up so it seems to be getting worse. I never let
my tank get below 1/4 full. I’m not sure how many gallons my tank
holds but when I fill up I put in about 13 gallons. I’ve taken it to
my mechanic (who I think is awesome at his job) but basically he says
he can’t tell for sure what the problem is unless he sees it. He
guessing it could be the fuel pump but its expensive to replace this
on only a guess. He also says for all the many years he’s been a
mechanic he’s never heard of a car stalling only after you fill up the
tank. Any thoughts would be appreciated. If I have to replace the
fuel pump I would rather do it sooner than later as I’m always nervous
that my car might not start up again after one of these episodes.
But, like many people, my home budget is so tight that I concerned
about spending $800+ dollars if it doesn’t fix the problem.
Thanks!

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truckdriver - 04 Nov 2008 00:28 GMT
> I have a 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan with approximately 96,000 miles.
> Since about September 2008, my car has had a problem with stalling
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it sounds like it is vapor locking or the sock on the fuel pump is
clogging
clare@snyder.on.ca - 04 Nov 2008 01:05 GMT
>> I have a 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan with approximately 96,000 miles.
>> Since about September 2008, my car has had a problem with stalling
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>it sounds like it is vapor locking or the sock on the fuel pump is
>clogging
Not vapour locking - you can be 99.99% sure of that. Doesn't really
sound like the filter sock plugging either or it would most likely
give trouble at speed or under heavy load when the tank is low as
well. I've not run across that problem that I can remember, but I'd be
suspicious of some kind of problem in the evap control system.
Possibly the charcoal canister is saturating and the purge is stuck
open on decel, flooding the engine on decel????
truckdriver - 04 Nov 2008 23:30 GMT
On Nov 3, 8:05 pm, cl...@snyder.on.ca wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:28:26 -0800 (PST), truckdriver
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my neon had the same problem and the sock witch is the fuel filter as
well would stall the car after fill up sounds strange but it happened
to me as well