Model years Dodge Grand Caravan
2010 Dodge Grand Caravan
Complaints about this year name bags electrical far more often than the other years of this generation — 15% of them, about 37× the usual rate of 0.4%.
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 | 2,078 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 411 |
| Involving a crash | 56 |
| Involving a fire | 38 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- bags — 24% of this year's complaints, against 9.2% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: bags, air bags, aware issue, disconnect.
- power steering — 9.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation (4.3×). Owners wrote it as: power steering, steering brakes, lose power, steering power.
- restart — 10.1% of this year's complaints, against 3.4% across the other years of this generation (3×).
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.
Also unusual this year
- air bags — 19% of complaints, 13× usual
- electrical system — 28% of complaints, 5× usual
- ignition — 19% of complaints, 5× usual
What owners wrote
THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED UNDER NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V373000 (AIR BAGS, ELECTRICAL SYSTEM). THE FOB AND IGNITION WERE REPLACED; HOWEVER, THE FAILURE RECURRED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 116,000.
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO START THE VEHICLE, IT FAILED TO START AND THE KEY FAILED TO RELEASE FROM THE IGNITION. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V373000 (AIR BAGS, ELECTRICAL SYSTEM). THE [VIN] WAS…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V396000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V234000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 14V055000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 14V373000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 11V139000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 25V876000 EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY 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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