Anybody having problems with cap less gas tank?

[Hockey_magnet]

New EX - I pretty much always fill my tank til the auto shut off on the hose kicks in. I insert the nozzle as far as it will go and I do not attempt to top it up. I remove the nozzle very carefully but I always seem to wind up with a very small amount of gas going down the small drain hole and have to wipe the filler area clean. Never had this type of problem with any other car (they all had standard gas caps. Has anybody else noticed this? On my next fill I'll watch very closely to see if I can see at what point it's leaking.

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[corbygray528]

New EX - I pretty much always fill my tank til the auto shut off on the hose kicks in. I insert the nozzle as far as it will go and I do not attempt to top it up. I remove the nozzle very carefully but I always seem to wind up with a very small amount of gas going down the small drain hole and have to wipe the filler area clean. Never had this type of problem with any other car (they all had standard gas caps. Has anybody else noticed this? On my next fill I'll watch very closely to see if I can see at what point it's leaking.

Do you let the nozzle sit in the tank for 5-10 seconds after it stops to let it finish dripping out?

 

[Hockey_magnet]

Do you let the nozzle sit in the tank for 5-10 seconds after it stops to let it finish dripping out?

Thanks. Didn't count to ten or anything but I'm sure it was 5 or 10 seconds but even so, If that was the problem, I would have been having the same issue with a capped tank wouldn't I?

 

[Chris G]

Yep you need to give it 10 seconds before pulling out.

 

[16extsense]

I let the nozzle to auto shut off and even before I pull out the nozzle, the gas already spills. I never bother to clean it.

 

[Civics4Ever]

Yep you need to give it 10 seconds before pulling out.

That's what she said!
Does anyone know where that gas that spills into the hole goes when the gas overspills?

 

[Chris G]

It goes out the tube and down to the ground.

 

[pwschuh]

... but I always seem to wind up with a very small amount of gas going down the small drain hole .

I wouldn't consider this to be "a problem." That is what the hole is there for. If it's only a few drips, it probably evaporates before it even makes it all the way down the drain tube. Mine does this all the time. The interior shelf is plastic and not likely to be affected by the small amounts of fuel that gets on it so I've never bothered to wipe it off.

 

[D Money]

One solution is to put paper towels and Clorox wipes in your car. Finish gas, wipe, then disinfect.

 

[quadna71]

My Touring burps each time I fill up too. I insert all the way, lock the handle to high flow, and then don't top off at all. When the handle clicks, I check and every time it has burped a little out into the overflow area. Never enough to spill over into the paint, but enough that it's sort of any annoyance. I'm not referring to some spilling out when removing the nozzle...I'm referring to it burping out immediately when it clicks off. 3 different gas stations have been used so far and all had the same result. Will it hurt anything? Doubtful. Is it normal? Doubt it because none of our past Hondas did it.

 

[djasonw]

Yep you need to give it 10 seconds before pulling out.

That's what she said!!!

 

[Billy4202]

That's what she said!!!

Bruh, I hope that's *not* what she said.

...otherwise, I'm running straight for that door.

--> Only issue spilling gas happened today...and that's because I was staring at this cute chick while filling up and missed the hole. Spilled all over the bottom of the hole. Typically I have no issues if it you get the nozzle in fully the first time, but it goes in at a weird-looking angle.

 

[UberCivic]

It goes out the tube and down to the ground.

Do you know this for a fact or are just speculating? It's my guess that it goes into an evap canister like many other cars and gets sucked back into the engine as vapor so there is no waste. If not then I have been wasting gas every time I fill because I purposely let it overflow to get a repeatable fill. I even sat there and checked for drippage the first few fill ups to make sure that it wasn't just draining, and nothing came out the bottom of the car.

 

[fazekas]

Not a fan of the new capless design. I follow the instructions, wait 5 to 10 seconds, etc. and always some gas spills into the well. Also, had an incident where a gas nozzle got stuck because the locking mechanism didn't want to disengage and release when filling up at Costco. Took 10 minutes until it finally released.

 

[unr1]

For those that have had the gas nozzle get stuck, any tips on getting it removed?

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