Model years Dodge Grand Caravan
2013 Dodge Grand Caravan
This year drew an ordinary 469 complaints for a Dodge Grand Caravan — the model's median is 411. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.2% of them mention pump, against 2.4% 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 | 469 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 411 |
| Involving a crash | 13 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- pump — 10.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the other years of this generation (4.2×). Owners wrote it as: pump, fuel pump, relay, pump relay.
- tipm — 8.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: tipm, power 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
TIPM FAULTY IN OUR 2013 DODGE CARAVAN WITH 54000 MILES. VAN WILL NOT START..THE FUEL PUMP RELAY DANGEROUSLY ALLOWS THE FUEL PUMP TO CONTINUE EVEN AFTER VAN IS SHUT OFF. THESE WERE RECALLED ON THOUSANDS BUT ONLY UNTIL 2012. BOUGHT THE VAN WITH 2 MILES OFF SHOWR…
I TURNED OFF MY 2013 GRAND CARAVAN AND NOTICED A SOUND LIKE A FAN BUZZING COMING FROM THE REAR TIRE AREA. IN A FEW HRS I CAME BACK OUT AND TRIED TO START IT AND THE BATTERY WAS DEAD. RESEARCH TELLS ME IT'S THE FUEL PUMP RELAY.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V234000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 13V291000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 13V283000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 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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