Model years Dodge Grand Caravan
2011 Dodge Grand Caravan
This year drew an ordinary 530 complaints for a Dodge Grand Caravan — the model's median is 411. What they were about is the unusual part: 29.1% of them mention tipm, against 1.4% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Dodge Grand Caravan, which began in 2008. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 530 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 411 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 17 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- tipm — 29.1% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the other years of this generation (20.2×). Owners wrote it as: tipm, faulty tipm, tipm module, module tipm.
- fuel — 27.9% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the other years of this generation (16.8×).
- start — 37.9% of this year's complaints, against 6.4% across the other years of this generation (5.9×).
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
THE VEHICLE BECAME DIFFICULT TO START UNTIL IT FINALLY QUIT STARTING. WE REPLACED THE FUEL PUMP, BUT THE PROBLEM CONTINUED. IT HAS NOW BEEN DIAGNOSED AS A FAULTY TIPM. THE [VIN] PART IS ON BACKORDER AND THERE IS NO DELIVERY DATE SET AS OF YET.
TROUBLE STARTING VEHICLE, DRAINING BATTERY, FUEL PUMP CONTINUOUSLY RUNNING AFTER VEHICLE IS SHUT OFF AND KEY IS REMOVED FROM IGNITION. I HAVE LOOKED UP COMPLAINTS ONLINE AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER OWNERS HAVE EXPERIENCED THE SAME PROBLEM FOR FAULTY TIPM.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V376000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V234000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 11V315000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 25V876000 EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY 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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