Model years Dodge Grand Caravan
2006 Dodge Grand Caravan
This year drew an ordinary 286 complaints for a Dodge Grand Caravan — the model's median is 469. What they were about is the unusual part: 15% of them mention airbag, against 4.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 286 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 469 |
| Involving a crash | 12 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 4 |
What the complaints were about
- airbag — 15% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the model's other years (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: airbag, airbag light, under recall, covered under.
- sensor — 12.9% of this year's complaints, against 3.7% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: sensor, bag, bag sensor.
- air bag — 9.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: air bag, bag warning, bag light, control module.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
I WENT IN FOR MY INSPECTION STICKER FOR MY 2006 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN, IT FAILED DUE TO THE AIRBAG LIGHT BEING ON. THERE ARE KNOWN ISSUES WITH THE AIRBAG SENSOR, BUT MINES NOT COVERED UNDER THE RECALL, BUT ITS THE SAME ISSUE.
THE AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER FOR DIAGNOSTICS. THE TECHNICIANS STATED THAT THE AIR BAG SENSOR WAS CORRODED AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THERE WAS A RECALL UNDER NH…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 07E104000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 10V338000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 10V008000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 06V067000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Dodge Grand Caravan was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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