Dodge Grand Caravan

Which Dodge Grand Caravan years should you avoid?

Going by 13,477 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Dodge Grand Caravan years to avoid are 1999, 2008, 1996, 2016 and 2005.

• 19994.1× the usual share of fires, crashes and deaths for a car of its age (13 fires, 26 crashes, 8 deaths).
• 20081,293 complaints, 3.9× a typical Grand Caravan year, most often about the electrical system.
• 19961,157 complaints, 3.5× a typical Grand Caravan year, most often about the transmission.
• 20161,002 complaints, 3.1× a typical Grand Caravan year, most often about the electrical system.
• 2005995 complaints, 3.0× a typical Grand Caravan year, most often about the door locks and latches.

5 more years cleared the same bar; they are marked in the table below.

How this is worked out: each year is compared with a typical year of the same model, which takes most of the difference in sales out of it, and its share of serious failures is compared with every other car of the same model year, because older cars were complained about differently. A year needs 25 complaints to be judged at all. Complaints are unverified owner reports. Full method →