Model years Dodge Grand Caravan
2012 Dodge Grand Caravan
This year drew an ordinary 583 complaints for a Dodge Grand Caravan — the model's median is 411. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.8% of them mention tipm, against 1.1% 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 | 583 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 411 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 14 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- tipm — 10.8% of this year's complaints, against 1.1% across the other years of this generation (9.7×).
- start — 18.5% of this year's complaints, against 6.4% across the other years of this generation (2.9×).
- pump — 15.4% of this year's complaints, against 4.8% across the other years of this generation (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: pump, fuel pump, relay, pump relay.
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 TOTALLY INTEGRATED POWER MODULE (TIPM) ON MY DODGE CARAVAN VEHICLE CONTAINS AN INTERNAL FUEL PUMP RELAY THAT OPERATES INTERMITTENTLY AND FAILS WITHOUT WARNING CAUSED AND STILL CAUSES THE ENGINE TO STALL WHILE DRIVING WHICH COULD CAUSE A CRASH. THERE IS NO…
while driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle intermittently stalled with the check engine warning light illuminated. The contact self-diagnosed the vehicle with a faulty fuel pump relay for the Totally Integrated Power Module (TIPM). The vehicle was not…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V376000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V234000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 12V141000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 11V487000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 12V191000 EQUIPMENT 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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