2016 DODGE CARAVAN — Complaint #1558324
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed April 16, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558324 (ODI reference 11196644) concerns a 2016 DODGE CARAVAN and was filed on April 16, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 15, 2019. The vehicle had 104,749 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same DODGE CARAVAN cohort independently describe similar power train failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2016 DODGE CARAVAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2016 DODGE CARAVAN. AFTER THE CONTACT PARKED THE VEHICLE AND TURNED THE ENGINE OFF, HE BEGAN TO EXIT THE VEHICLE AS IT STARTED TO ROLL BACKWARDS. THE CONTACT EXITED THE VEHICLE, PUSHED IT BACK INTO THE PARKING SPOT, RESTARTED THE ENGINE, PLACED THE GEAR IN PARK, AND TURNED OFF THE ENGINE. THE CHECK ENGINE INDICATOR ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS SCHEDULED TO BE TOWED TO HUNTINGTON BEACH JEEP DODGE CHRYSLER (16701 BEACH BLVD, HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 92647, (714) 841-3999) WHERE THE VEHICLE WAS SCHEDULED TO BE DIAGNOSED AND REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 104,749.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558324 |
| ODI Number | 11196644 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 15, 2019 |
| VIN | 2C4RDGCG4GR |
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TRANSITION SHIFTS HARD.
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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