Five problems related to owners/service manual have been reported for the 2011 Chrysler Town & Country. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2011 Chrysler Town & Country based on all problems reported for the 2011 Town & Country.
The actuator failed on the driver side sliding door. The door is completely stuck and will not open manually making driving a very dangerous situation.
Rear passenger sliding doors will not fully close and lock when pushing close button. Doors have to be manually pushed closed from the outside to close the last quarter inch and to have the door close mechanism engage. This present a safety risk to 2nd row passengers as the doors are not fully secured.
Passanger side sliding door will not lock. The lock itself is stuck in lock position. But it will not move by any power device. And will not budge by manual. All doors will lock but that one. There are many youtube videos showing this issue. Saying it is the actuator.
I used the button on my key fob to open the power lift gate. Once the door was open enough I started to place two items n the rear of the minivan. Rather than stopping at the top when open, the door stuttered a moment at the fully open position and then slammed forcibly shut on my head. The blow nearly knocked me out. I was not able to manually open the door. Each attempt to open the door with the key fob had the same type of result. The door would reach the top, stutter and then forcibly slam shut. I am glad it was me and not my wife or daughter. I did not seek medical attention, but did experience dizziness for several hours afterwards.
Randomly closes the powered doors and doesn't stop when obstructed, several trips to the dealer and no issues found. Always when in park and with all 3 methods of opening the door, fod, manually and interior button. Warning lights keep coming off and on (check engine and tire pressure low) but service shop says no issue. Autostart doesn't work much of the time but service center says when check engine light is on it won't. I autostarted my car but it wouldn't let me press the brakes, push the start button, put it in drive to operate the vehicle then it died. I was able to start again but it immediately died again several times. I was tehn locked in and the lights and horn kept flashing, the locks would not unlock. It very frequently does not detect the key and will randomly beep that the key is not detected while driving and will not start at all with the key in hand.