2015 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN — Complaint #1779022
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:FLUID/LUBRICANT:PUMP filed November 17, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1779022 (ODI reference 11440793) concerns a 2015 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN and was filed on November 17, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 17, 2021. The vehicle had 100,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Colorado based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:automatic transmission:fluid/lubricant:pump, 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:automatic transmission:fluid/lubricant:pump 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 2015 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan. The contact stated while driving 50 MPH, the transmission failed, and the vehicle would not properly accelerate almost causing a crash to occur with a semi-truck. The vehicle was towed to the local dealer who diagnosed that the transmission had failed due to a faulty transmission pump. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic who replaced the transmission and the failure was remedied. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The contact was informed that the vehicle was included in NHTSA Campaign Number: 16V461000 (Power Train). The contact indicated that the vehicle had experienced the failure listed in the recall. The failure mileage was 100,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1779022 |
| ODI Number | 11440793 |
| Date Filed | November 17, 2021 |
| Failure Date | October 17, 2021 |
| VIN | 2C4RDGBG3FR |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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