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Dodge Grand Caravan 2018

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.42 per 1,000

0.7 times this nameplate’s own median · from 58 complaints filed in the first three years, of 271 ever. 95% lower bound 0.31.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	1.87	231
2009	0.70	75
2010	1.68	163
2011	0.42	45
2012	0.64	81
2013	1.38	183
2014	0.90	116
2015	0.32	37
2016	0.61	69
2017	0.46	58
2018	0.42	58
2019	0.41	56

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Electrical System 92 complaints

sliding	49	53%
sliding door	37	40%
side sliding	17	19%
door stuck	11	12%
stuck lock	10	11%
lock position	10	11%

Unknown Or Other 66 complaints

sliding	47	71%
sliding door	38	57%
side sliding	20	31%
lock actuator	11	17%
buzzing	11	17%

Structure 59 complaints

side sliding	18	31%
fob	16	28%
actuator	14	24%
key fob	13	22%
stuck lock	10	18%
lock position	10	18%

When it breaks

10% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 54,000 miles, from 100 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

1 investigation covering this model year, 0 of which list a recall campaign.

Active Head Rest Inadvertent Deployment

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

11100770 · 11111749 · 11111620 · 11132682 · 11142389 · 11156699

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.