Table 1 shows three common equipment related problems of the 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan.
| Problem Category | Number of Problems |
|---|---|
| Electrical Equipment problems | |
| Equipment problems | |
| Recreational Vehicle Lpg Tank Valve/gauge problems |
The power steering hose failed. The power steering leaked and replaced under recall 037. The vehicle began smoking and had no power steering. The power steering hose blew off the rack clamp was not installed properly. Shortly thereafter, the garage was smoke-filled and a pool of fluid was on the floor. The remote was inoperative.
I purchased my Dodge Grand Caravan sport 2003 brand new off the lot in Nov. 2002. I kept it in mint condition with all maintenance logs filled out. At the time of incident there were only 95,000 miles on the van. It had never been in a wreck before. On Jan 18 2015 while driving in the mountains I hit black ice and lost control of the vehicle. It flipped front to back, did a 180 mid air, landed on wheels then rolled at least once to the left, landing on the wheels again. The airbags never deployed. My passenger and I both had our seatbelts on however I still lifted up and hit my head on the roof and the windshield. We are still assessing our injuries. I am extremely concerned as to how I lifted out of my seat, basically the seatbelt did not tighten to me. Also why didn't the airbags deploy? has there been a recall concerning the airbags or seat belts or other that I was never informed of?.
During a March 2016 road trip to atlanta, GA, from michigan, while traveling about 65 mph on I-75, temperature gauge needle began to climb toward the red zone on the instrument dial. Within minutes I pulled off onto a highway construction site where I stopped the vehicle and turned off the ignition switch. Opening the hood, I began to investigate the problem(s). Cool upper radiator hose. Cool radiator cap. Turned cap off and discovered no coolant in radiator. No apparent source of leaking. Added ice water from ice chest to radiator hoping to locate source of leak. Turned engine on and located leak beneath passenger side of vehicle: two small holes in corroded exposed steel tubing routing coolant to rear heater assembly in rear of van. The next day discovered that Chrysler had changed the part from steel to aluminum in late 2000's to help prevent the corrosive action of road salt in the northern climates that had affected many similar vehicles during the mid-2000's. However, daimler Chrysler chose not to institute a recall of the faulty designed part fully exposed beneath the vehicle. The cost of replacing the part at the dealership in stone mountain, GA, was around $650. 00 usd, not a huge sum, but obviously not cost-efficient for the automaker and its shareholders. This problem could be life-threatening if the driver and passengers were stranded during the winter months in northern u. S. Or canada, when loss of all coolant occurred. Operating vehicle with no coolant could result in the engine seizing up while traveling at highway speeds, causing injury to driver and passengers and possibly other motorists. A dangerous situation that Chrysler has corrected on its later model vehicles since 2010 or 2011.