Model years Dodge Grand Caravan
2005 Dodge Grand Caravan
This year drew an ordinary 996 complaints for a Dodge Grand Caravan — the model's median is 411. What they were about is the unusual part: 33.9% of them mention locks, against 1.4% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 996 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 411 |
| Involving a crash | 28 |
| Involving a fire | 7 |
| Recalls | 6 |
What the complaints were about
- locks — 33.9% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the model's other years (23.9×).
- door — 36.9% of this year's complaints, against 12.1% across the model's other years (3.1×).
- working — 22.3% of this year's complaints, against 5.9% across the model's other years (3.8×). Owners wrote it as: working, stopped working, quit, locks stopped.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
THE POWER LOCKS STOPPED WORKING. NEITHER THE REMOTE NOR THE ACTUAL INTERIOR LOCK WOULD WORK TO LOCK ALL THE DOORS AT ONCE. WE NOW NEED TO INDIVIDUALLY LOCK EACH DOOR.
ALL OF THE DOOR LOCKS STOPPED WORKING IN HER VEHICLE FOUR MONTHS AGO. SHE CALLED THE DEALER AND WAS INFORMED THAT A DIAGNOSTIC WOULD COST $300. THE DEALER ALSO STATED THAT THE COMPUTER IN THE DOOR LOCKS NEEDED TO BE RESET. THE FAILURE HAS RECENTLY RECURRED. TH…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 07E104000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 10V271000 EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 10V261000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 10V008000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 06V067000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 04V047000 SEAT BELTS
How this was worked out
Every year of the Dodge Grand Caravan was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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