Six problems related to automatic transmission have been reported for the 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan based on all problems reported for the 2001 Grand Caravan.
My minivan was in park with the engine running while I delivered a package to a neighbor during a thunder, lightning, rain storm. The van jumped into gear, raced forward and pinned me to the neighbor's door for more than an hour before being rescued. I spent several days in the intensive care unit of a hospital with a severe crush injury and hip sprain to my right leg. When the car was examined by my dealer/mechanic, nothing registered on the computer. I have located at least 2 other instances of this make, model, year jumping into or out of gear, with injuries.
2001 Dodge Grand Caravan - 41te transmission just quit after 64,000 miles with no warning. . Read more...
2001 Dodge Grand Caravan hesitated in traffic, bucked, died at a stop sign.
While driving approximately 70 mph, the transmission seized. This caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle.
Transmission disintegrated. As a result, vehicle became inoperative.
Car sometimes rolls forward or backward when in gear and running (in the opposite direction of the engaged gear). For example, our driveway slopes downward, away from the street and toward our house, requiring us to back up the driveway to reach the street. When the car is started and put into reverse, it sometimes will roll forward until the brake is applied. Conversely, when the car is in forward gear and is stopped (at a light or stop sign) on an incline with the front of the car being higher than the rear, the car will sometimes roll backward until the brake is applied. The dealership has told us that this is "normal" and that if the engine rpm is not at a certain level, gravity will prevail over the transmission. While this seems normal if the car had a standard transmission, this seems quite abnormal since it has an automatic. Whenever we are on an incline, I must keep my foot on the brake and rev the engine prior to taking my foot of the brake or run the risk that the car will roll forward into our swimming pool at the end of the driveway, or backward into another car while in traffice. It's like driving my old vw.