Tank Assembly problems of the 2003 Chrysler Town & Country

We have owned our 2003 town and country since 2008. The car had seemed to have pretty good gas mileage until the past few months. I have noticed that I have had to purchase gas every 3 days or so. I put a full tank of gas in the van on Friday may 21st. I picked up both my son and daughter to and from school and to and from church. We made a pit stop at a store and dropped off a friend at home (this person lives around the corner from my son's school). On Monday, I found myself back at the gas station because my gas light had come on and had said I was out of gas. This has been occurring over and over again over the past month or so. I have a friend who also has noted that I have been purchasing gas more and more over the past few weeks and recommends that we take this in and make sure that their isn't something happening with this van. Filling a van isn't cheap and this van has emptied our gas budget in less than a week. I don't see myself purchasing another town and country for our next van purchase. We will need to do much better on our homework with our next purchase.

2003 Chrysler town and country van. When refueling gas will shoot back out after refueling has began. Numerous times I have had gas splashback onto my person. The tank is extremely slow to fill as no matter what position the gas nozle is inserted in the filler tube the automatic shut off is activated on the nozzle.

I own a 2003 Chrysler Town & Country van. During a recent trip we ran over a piece of tire lying on the highway. The impact from the small piece of tire caused a rupture in the fiberglas gas tank, along an exposed seam. The dealer in durango CO said they were told that there were five other incidents of damage to the same gas tank that week, necessitating a lengthy wait while a tank was shipped from detroit. We were told by the dealer that when the dealer called Chrysler for information about the tank, they were told to "impound" the car because it was unsafe to drive. When posing this to Chrysler, they deny that there was ever any impounding and that we were merely "advised" not to drive it. It was much more severe than that. It was, in fact, impounded and would not be released to us. We can produce witnesses to this statement who were in the dealership at the time, even though the dealership now says that is not true. Clearly, they don't want to interrupt a relationship with Chrysler. While we certainly would have little interest in driving an unsafe vehicle beyond getting it to some place where repairs might be more reasonably priced ($738 for a gas tank seems excessive), I am more concerned that the tank can receive such significant damage. It seems that any of several options would have prevented this problem. 1) if the tank was made of something other than fiberglas, it might better withstand an impact. 2) if the company is going to use fiberglas, a protective shield in front of the exposed area would prevent this type of damage. 3) a seam should not be exposed to the road surface. The split in the tank was at a seam on the underside of the tank. If such rupture can be prevented, it should be!.