Model years Dodge Grand Caravan
2007 Dodge Grand Caravan
This year drew an ordinary 182 complaints for a Dodge Grand Caravan — the model's median is 469. What they were about is the unusual part: 37.9% of them mention tank, against 14.6% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 182 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 469 |
| Involving a crash | 14 |
| Involving a fire | 7 |
| Recalls | 3 |
What the complaints were about
- tank — 37.9% of this year's complaints, against 14.6% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: tank, fuel, stalls, refueling.
- gas — 18.1% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the model's other years (6.1×).
- every — 11.5% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: every, vehicle stalls, every fill, every 000.
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
AFTER FILLING GAS TANK, ENGINE HESITATED AND KILLED. AFTER RESEARCHING, DETERMINED THIS IS A FUEL TANK VALVE ISSUE COMMON TO MINIVANS. NOT COVERED UNDER WARRANTY, OBVIOUS [VIN] DEFECT. VALVE ALLOWS LIQUID GAS INTO VAPOR SYSTEM. ISSUE STILL EXISTS, TEMPORARY FI…
ENGINE DIES AFTER FILLING UP GAS TANK BECAUSE OF A FAULTY VAPOR/LIQUID SEPARATOR VALVE. AFTER FILLING UP AND DRIVING FOR LESS THAN A 1/4 MILE THE ENGINE WILL STALL IN TRAFFIC SEVERAL TIMES.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 07E104000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 10V261000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 10V338000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
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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