2016 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN — Complaint #1558527
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed April 16, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558527 (ODI reference 11196797) concerns a 2016 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN and was filed on April 16, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 5, 2019. The vehicle had 110,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Arkansas 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 GRAND 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 GRAND CARAVAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2016 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN. WHILE DRIVING 35 MPH, THE VEHICLE ACCELERATED INDEPENDENTLY WITHOUT WARNING. ON ANOTHER OCCASION, THE VEHICLE STARTED TO SLOW DOWN WHILE TRAVELING UP A HILL. THE CONTACT WAS ABLE TO COAST THE VEHICLE TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. THE CONTACT PLACED THE SHIFTER INTO PARK AND POWERED OFF THE ENGINE. THE VEHICLE WAS RESTARTED, BUT A BURNING ODOR WAS PRESENT AROUND THE VEHICLE. THE CONTACT POWERED OFF THE ENGINE AGAIN AND HAD THE VEHICLE TOWED TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC. THE MECHANIC DIAGNOSED THAT THE TRANSMISSION PUMP FAILED AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO A DEALER AND WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND PROVIDED CASE NUMBER: 58391588. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 110,000. *DT *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558527 |
| ODI Number | 11196797 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 5, 2019 |
| VIN | 2C4RDGCG8GR |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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