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Other fuel system problem on the 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan

Only 2 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 4
With an odometer reading 2
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 50%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $300–$2,200
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 28th

When other fuel system problem gets reported

There are 4 reports of other fuel system problem on the 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan, 2 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 90,000 miles. It is the 28th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 2 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 84,500 miles — —

Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.

What a percentile can and cannot tell you here

These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.

What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.

Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $300–$2,200 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 21 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 4 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 210,000 miles.

By volume the 1996 carries the most reports, with 55; the 2001 has 4. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1996 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 130k
  2. 1997 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 142k
  3. 1998 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 131k
  4. 1999 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 210k
  5. 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 91k
  6. 2001 (this one) 85k
  7. 2002 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 7k
  8. 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 118k
  9. 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 85k
  10. 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 103k
  11. 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 101k
  12. 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 90k
  13. 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 72k
  14. 2009 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 86k
  15. 2010 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 71k
  16. 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 106k
  17. 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 125k
  18. 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 81k
  19. 2014 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  20. 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 102k
  21. 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 66k
  22. 2017 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 61k
  23. 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 47k
  24. 2019 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 4
  25. 2020 Dodge Grand Caravan other fuel system problem 62k

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

When refueling, I slightly bumped the gas door and it broke in two. Not a real big deal, but it is made of plastic and it broke very easily. Not a great design. Have there been more complaints of this problem? Thank you

26,000 miles NHTSA complaint 470191 filed 2004-04-22

Also reported on the 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan

Headlight failure or clouding

26 reports median 80k

Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure

23 reports median 43k

Other lighting problem

20 reports median 79k

Other visibility problem

19 reports median 52k

Other electrical problem

18 reports median 76k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 4 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 4 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

Questions this page answers

At what mileage does other fuel system problem happen on the 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan?

Across 2 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 85,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other fuel system problem on the 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan?

4 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed