Underhood Wiring Problems of Dodge Grand Caravan

When starting my car, the automatic headlights come on, however only the passenger headlight works. When I turn on the lights the passenger lights stay on and the driver side remains off. When I turn my lights onto a bright setting, the driver side lights work and the passenger side goes out. I have replaced both headlights and this still occurs. I have researched this problem online and have noticed hundreds of people experiencing the same problem. Because lights are a safety issue, I strongly believe daimler-chrystler must do a safety recall and fix this problem.

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Heating/airconditioning fan switch would not function in one position, traced problem to burned up and short out connector and resisitor connector in engine compartment that operated heating/air conditioning fan speed. Replaced parts. Poor design, will not accept electrical load over extended operation. Old parts avalible.

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Power cable for radiator fan was rubbing against ac tubing. Cable wore through causing a short circuit, failure of radiator cooling fan resulting in overheating of engine. Wire cable bundle will have to be replaced and rerouted to prevent future vibration erosion of cable bundle.

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Two incidents: in Feb 05, daylight driving approximately 4 minutes @45 mph during rainfall, all the dash information lights came on and wipers would not turn on. Pulling off the road to assess the situation with the van still running all the dash lights suddenly went out. I continued to drive and 1 minute later all dash lights came on again. Afraid to go on, pulled into a parking lot, placed van in park and dash lights would not go out. Turned off engine, tried to restart car. First few turns of key, nothing happened and then the car finally turned over without any dash lights. Driving home in rain, turned on headlights/wipers and moments later all dash lights again came on. At that same time, the headlights went out/windshield wipers stopped uncommanded. Made it home/turned off engine. Several attempts to restart engine failed, no dash information lights during start sequence, had to have van towed to Dodge dealer. The dealer discovered main computer was fried. After many hours/days of trouble shooting, we were told the wiring harness to computer was chaffed causing the problem with the computer. Dealership repaired the wiring harness and replaced the computer with a rebuilt one. In early August 05 while driving in darkness, the dash lights/headlights started to cycle on and off uncontrolled, all gauges went to zero and all squares around the transmission status lights (p,r,n,d,l) would all light up. The fan would all of a sudden turn on uncommanded and not go off until the car was turned off. Took van under own power to dealer. Determined wiring harness bad. Took about 3 weeks for harness to arrive (9/23/05). Expect work to be completed by 30 September?????.

There was a fire under the hood which caused 2 explosions. The first explosion appears to have been an electrical fire. The second explosion was in the gas or fuel line. The entire engine area was burned and the fire cracked the windshield and started moving into the front of the car. No one was hurt. The car was determined to be a total loss. No repairs were made. This is a claim to replace or repair the car. Police and firemen were called to the fire. Fire report was made.

Smoke appeared from under the hood, then burst into flames. This occurred while the vehicle was parked and turned off. The vehicle was totaled.

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Sensor failure caused vehicle to accelerate uncontrollably and jump. My wife and 2 kids in van. Dt.

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My wife was driving the vehicle when she smelled a burning odor. She looked behind her and saw flames coming out of the right rear side panel next to the third seat. She pulled over and called 911. The police and fire dept. Came and put out the fire. The fire dept. Said it appeared to be caused by an electrical short. My insurance company, new jersey manufacturers insurance CO. , declared the car a total loss and took it.

Wiring harness at battery and under hood fuse block caused fire, claim 20-5416-549.

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Vheicle was just parked when consumer returned to find smoke coming from underneath the hood. Vehicle was totaled consumer was treated for smoke inhalation. Consumer didn't have any warning while driving just before parking. Dealer was not notified. Consumer states that vehicle was experiencing fuel filter and fuel pumps problems and had been replaced several times before the incident.

Vehicle was parked when it caught fire, fire was caused by a wire in the wiring harness, claim 35-w700-085.

Wire harness shorting out in steering assy poss. Setting off airbags while driving.

Technical service bulletin (#24-06-97) indicates connector 'corrosion' problems which causes front hvac blower(fan) to not operate on some or all speeds except 'high'. While replacing resistor and connector (per the bulletin) I found they were not only rusted together, but the connector was melted at one of the contacts (from the resistance caused by the rust) indicating a high possibility of a fire occurring from this common problem. I had to work very hard to pry the connector from the resistor so I imagine most times this problem is serviced the connector is just cut from the wiring harness and discarded with the resistor still connected since both are to be replaced anyways. This could cause the possible melting of the connector not to be noticed or reported in many cases. 'underhood' may be misleading in this case also, as the resistor is mounted through the firewall into the vehicle and it's ventilation system !.

Consumer was leaving home and heard a poff, consumer lifted the hood and the vehicle was smoking in the engine compartment, main wiring harness is melted, no sign of fire, claim 25-5394-275.

While leaving home, consumer heard a poff, when looking under the hood, it was smoking in the engine compartment, the main harness is melted, there was no sign of a fire, claim 25-5394-275.

The location of the wiring harness which is too close to the exhaust manifold caused the wiring harness to melt, resulting in the computer malfunctioning, etc. . Et.

When driving at any speed vehicle stalled out due to a short in wiring harness. Vehicle has been at dealer four times for repairs, and dealer couldn't determine the cause of the problem.

Owner states that while filling the vehicle with gas the vehicle caught fire, owner notes that it may have been electrical fire.

While traveling noticed smoking coming from engine, vehicle was on fire consumer put fire out with water hose. Dealer has been notified this was 2nd time vehicle was on fire. Please provide further information.

Car was totally consumed in fire. No accident or involvement with any car or object.