2005 DODGE CARAVAN — Complaint #660888
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:GEAR BOX:SHAFT SECTOR filed March 10, 2008
NHTSA complaint #660888 (ODI reference 10220692) concerns a 2005 DODGE CARAVAN and was filed on March 10, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 10, 2008. The vehicle had 28,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Missouri based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:gear box:shaft sector, 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 steering:gear box:shaft sector 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 2005 DODGE CARAVAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE RACK AND PINION STEERING AND THE STEERING GEAR ARE GOING OUT ON OUR 2005 DODGE CARAVAN. THE PARTS ARE ON BACKORDER. THERE ARE SEVEN (7) VANS AHEAD OF OURS WITH OUR DEALER. I SPOKE TO CHRYSLER AND THIS IS A KNOWN ISSUE. THEY WANT US TO CONTINUE DRIVING THE VAN EVEN WITH THIS ISSUE. THEY ARE UNABLE TO GIVE US A DATE WHEN THE PART WILL BE AVAILABLE. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 660888 |
| ODI Number | 10220692 |
| Date Filed | March 10, 2008 |
| Failure Date | March 10, 2008 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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