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Model years to avoid

Dodge Grand Caravan

What it says about you

Opinion

The long one, sold forever at a discount, and it worked. Sliding doors solve more problems than styling ever has.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

16 model years on record, 9,487 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2016 (door), 2010 (bags electrical), 2008 (bags electrical). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • door 2005, 2016, 2017, 2018 peak 57.8% of that year's complaints
  • sliding 2016, 2017, 2018 peak 44.8% of that year's complaints
  • start 2010, 2011, 2012 peak 37.9% of that year's complaints
  • electrical 2008, 2009 peak 46.6% of that year's complaints
  • locks 2005, 2016, 2018 peak 33.9% of that year's complaints
  • amount time 2008, 2009, 2010 peak 30.2% of that year's complaints
  • tank 2007, 2011 peak 37.9% of that year's complaints
  • tipm 2011, 2012, 2013 peak 29.1% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2020 1 recall 19 complaints
  2. 2019 4 recalls 41 complaints
  3. 2018 4 recalls 268 complaints
  4. 2017 3 recalls 411 complaints
  5. 2016 door 1,155 complaints
  6. 2015 4 recalls 278 complaints
  7. 2014 5 recalls 357 complaints
  8. 2013 4 recalls 469 complaints
  9. 2012 6 recalls 583 complaints
  10. 2011 4 recalls 530 complaints
  11. 2010 bags electrical 2,078 complaints
  12. 2009 7 recalls 543 complaints
  13. 2008 bags electrical 1,291 complaints
  14. 2007 3 recalls 182 complaints
  15. 2006 4 recalls 286 complaints
  16. 2005 6 recalls 996 complaints

What does a Dodge Grand Caravan say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.