Model years Dodge Grand Caravan
2009 Dodge Grand Caravan
This year drew an ordinary 543 complaints for a Dodge Grand Caravan — the model's median is 411. What they were about is the unusual part: 28.9% of them mention bags, against 1.2% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Dodge Grand Caravan, which began in 2008. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 543 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 411 |
| Involving a crash | 11 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 7 |
What the complaints were about
- bags — 28.9% of this year's complaints, against 1.2% across the other years of this generation (24.1×). Owners wrote it as: bags, air bags, bags electrical.
- electrical — 46.6% of this year's complaints, against 12.9% across the other years of this generation (3.6×).
- amount time — 30.2% of this year's complaints, against 8.1% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: amount time, time recall, aware issue, bags however.
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
A RECALL NOTIFICATION FOR NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V373000 (AIR BAGS, ELECTRICAL SYSTEM) AND STATED THAT THE PART NEEDED WAS UNAVAILABLE TO PERFORM THE RECALL REPAIR. THE [VIN] WAS NOTIFIED OF THE ISSUE. THE CONTACT HAD NOT EXPERIENCED A FAILURE.
NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V373000 (AIR BAGS AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEM). THE PARTS FOR THE REPAIR WERE NOT AVAILABLE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. THE [VIN] WAS NOTIFIED. THE CONTACT HAD NOT EXPERIENCED A FAILURE. PARTS DISTRIBUTION DISCONNECT.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V396000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V055000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 16V047000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V373000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 09V046000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 09V351000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 10V235000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 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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