13 problems related to gasoline engine have been reported for the 1997 Dodge Grand Caravan. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
While driving consumer could smell smoke, when arriving home, a fire was detected in the engine compartment, claim 42-1396-385.
While driving, consumer smelled smoke coming from the engine, when arriving home there was a fire detected, claim 42-1396-385.
Consumer went into the store and when coming out, she saw the fire department putting out a fire from her vehicle, the fire occurred in the engine compartment, claim 55-s384-563.
While driving, vehicle caught fire in the engine compartment, claim 20-5392-910.
Vehicle caught fire while being driven, the fire originated in the engine compartment, claim 20-5392-910.
While vehicle was parked, smoke was coming from under the hood, the fire department responded but the engine was burned badly, driver was treated for smoke inhalation.
While driving the power steering went out, consumer pulled over and smoke started coming out, claim 25-5411-610.
While driving, power steering failed, consumer pulled over and saw smoke coming from vehicle, claim 25-5411-610.
Vehicle has experienced 2 fires, the first fire happened last year and was covered under the vehicle warranty, claim 16-n100-392.
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The vehicle will shut off while driving which causes it to lose all power steering and brakes. Most of the time the engine has to be restarted but there have been occasions where the power steering and brakes initially lost power, which made it very difficult to control the vehicle. The power steering and brakes will then just kick back on however, again causing loss of control of the vehicle since we are trying to oversteer it due to the original loss of power. This is an extreme safety hazard since the failures occur without warning and while the vehicle is moving. The vehicle has been to two different Dodge dealers on four separate occasions for repair but the problem has not been fixed because the dealers have not been able to have the power loss happen while they were driving it. These failures have occurred approximately 8 times since we bought the vehicle new.
While driving with the radio playing and the air conditioner on, and without any warning, the engine just dies out. But everything else is still working. Took vehicle into dealer twice, but they can't duplicate the problem.
Upon slowing down to make a turn or when entering an intersection, vehicle will completely shutdown. Consumer noticed that when this occurs oil light illuminates.