NHTSA Complaint #10614961 — 2004 GMC ENVOY

CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON, TOOK MY TRUCK TO THE MECHANIC TO HAVE IT CHECKED AND TESTING SHOWED CODES OF FUEL EVAP LEAK. I HAD TO GET THIS FIXED AS I WAS DUE TO GET MY REGISTRATION RENEWED. GOT THE VEHICLE BACK WENT FOR EMISSIONS TEST AND THE"CHECK ENGINE LIGHT" POPPED UP AGAIN JUST AS EMISSION TEST WAS BEING DONE!!!. I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT! SO NOT ONLY DID I INCUR COST OF MECHANIC BUT THE VEHICLE FAILED THE EMISSIONS TEST. THE TECH AT THE EMISSIONS CENTER SAID THE CODES SHOWED "FUEL EVAP LEAK" DETECTED., WHILE DRIVING HOME FROM THE EMISSIONS TEST I SMELLED A STRONG GAS ODOR, PULLED INTO MY GARAGE AND LOOKED UNDER THE VEHICLE AND IT WAS NOT LEAKING HOWEVER MY WHOLE GARAGE STUNK OF GAS. MY GARAGE IS ATTACHED TO MY HOUSE, LET THE DOG OUT AND THE DOG EVEN SNEEZED!.... BEING A WEEKEND AND MY ONLY WAY OF TRANSPORTATION I DROVE THE CAR AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE. MONDAY TOOK THE CAR BACK TO THE SHOP AND THE TECH NOTICED THE STRONG ODOR , LATER THE TECHNICIAN CALLED ME TO TELL ME THAT THE LINES TO FUEL TANK AND THE FUEL TANK NEEDED TO BE REPLACED AS THEY WERE LEAKING BUT ONLY WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS MOBILE!!!!!. HE ALSO TOLD ME THAT THE VEHICLE WAS A FIRE HAZARD AND I COULD NOT DRIVE THE VEHICLE. NOW WHAT! I HAD TO GET THIS FIXED AS I NEED THE VEHICLE TO GET TO WORK. THE ADDITIONAL COST WAS $960 NOT TO MENTION THE EXTENSION I HAD TO PAY THE DMV TO EXTEND MY RENEWAL REGISTRATION. HAD THE VEHICLE BACK A WEEK NOW, NO MORE GAS SMELL BUT LORD AND BEHOLD THE "CHECK ENGINE LIGHT" JUST POPPED UP AGAIN! THIS VEHICLE ONLY HAS 103K AND VERY WELL TAKEN CARE OF..THE MECHANIC SAYS THE CODE IS STILL READING "FUEL EVAP LEAK" . SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP.!!!!!!! IT SEEMS AS THO I AM NOT THE ONLY ENVOY OWNER WITH THIS PROBLEM!!!!!! I LOVED THIS VEHICLE BUT TOTALLY DISGUSTED AND DISAPPOINTED IN GMC. *TR