Gas tank problem while refueling: nozzle locked, unlocked, spills gas

[Climbandroll]

At the station nearest to my house, the lock on the nozzle will always unlock when it reaches full flow on the second notch (second or two after depressing fill lever and setting on notch). I can sometimes get it to stay on at the first notch, but sometimes not even that and have to hold it and fill with slower flow than that. Seems to depend a little on angle (tank port relative position to pump). At that same station, one pump is particularly more sensitive than others.

I have not had it pop out of the fill port yet. I sometimes clean the windshield while it's pumping. Will think twice now maybe.

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[KD4R6G_25]

This has now happened to both me and my wife. We each have a 25 TRD ORP.

While pumping gas, with the gas nozzle locked and inside the tank (not physically holding onto the nozzle), the gas nozzle unlocks and completely pops out of the tank. Gas spills all over the car and on the ground. For me, since I was standing next to it, gas got all over me as well. Has this happened to anyone else?

This happened to me in my 2024 Tundra TRD Pro...I would set the gas nozzle to slow and it would almost overflow immediately all over the side of the truck and over my shoes....was I pissed. I thought it was a defective pump nozzel and headed home to clean up the mess...then about a month later...same thing. I couldn't see a paatern because it was a completely different gas station and a pump I've never had problems with.

Here's what I did: There is a "Roller Valve at the top of the gas tank and at the bottom of the gas filling neck. When you depress the Fuel Button to open your gas flap, it automatically rolls open the roller valve to accept gas. I made sure that I "delibertly" depressed the Gas Button for a secound or two and watched the MID (Dash) and see if the message "Ready to Fuel" displayed. Once I did those two things, it never happened again.

The best I can tell is that I was not depressing the Gas button correctly or delibertly for the roll-over valve to open and the gas spurted back up the filler neck like it did to you as well as me.

Try this and let us know if it worked.

Kevin

 

[Four Runner]

The annoying part for me is that each time I go to fill up and unscrew the cap....it suspiciously feels like it is already loose and doesn't require any tension to unscrew it. Never had that in previous vehicles. Not throwing an EVAP code though but still doesn't feel like it is tight. Weird.

l get the same feeling every time I unscrew the gas cap also, always under the impression that I forgot to tighten it properly the time before. This is my first vehicle that requires zero force to unscrew the gas cap.

 

[willie2323]

@Hoyts1 fully agree with the odd angle of the filler port, way more horizontal than other vehicles.

willie

 

[2222CareBearStare]

To be fair to the op, the gas port on the 4Runner is at an odd angle. I felt nervous about leaving the pump unattended. Like it’s too horizontal and the weight of the pump handle can pull it out.

Yes. This.

 

[6thGen1419]

Never, but I am not in California. Have only gassed up in NM, CO, ID, UT, and WA.

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