2003 DODGE CARAVAN — Complaint #437947
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DRUM:DRUM filed October 29, 2003
NHTSA complaint #437947 (ODI reference 10043879) concerns a 2003 DODGE CARAVAN and was filed on October 29, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 29, 2003. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:drum:drum, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 service brakes, air:drum:drum 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 2003 DODGE CARAVAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
AFTER ONLY 25000 MILES ON MY NEW VAN, DODGE VARAVAN I NEED ALL NEW BRAKES. I WAS NOT TOLD WHEN I BOUGHT IT THAT THE REAR BRAKES HAVE TO BE ADJUSTED AT 10000 MILES.*AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 437947 |
| ODI Number | 10043879 |
| Date Filed | October 29, 2003 |
| Failure Date | October 29, 2003 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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