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Hard to start after putting fuel in tank

clbaker

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Location
Colorado
2008 FSI
After refueling the car is hard to start. Like it's out of fuel, the motor cranks over for approximately 10 seconds then it fires up, has a high, rough idle for a few seconds then goes to normal.
It only does this when I remove the gas cap to get gas.

The other day the gas cap off indicator light came on then went off and now I have a CEL with code P0455 indicating a large evaporative emissions system leak.

I'm hoping it's just a faulty gas cap but my concern is why the car doesn't want to start after I put fuel in it.

Thoughts?
 
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