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Other wheel or tire problem on the 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan

Only 3 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 3
With an odometer reading 3
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 67%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $200–$1,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 17th

When other wheel or tire problem gets reported

There are 3 reports of other wheel or tire problem on the 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan, 3 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 60,000 miles. It is the 17th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 3 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 34,300 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 $200–$1,500 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 20 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2002, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 165,000 miles.

By volume the 2009 carries the most reports, with 29; the 2004 has 3. 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.

What owners wrote

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

2004 dodge grand caravan...14500 miles on vehicle all tires rotated accordingly. The sidewall on all four good year tires have given way. The mechanic said all the tires must be replaced, as it would be very dangerous to dive this vehicle. *nm

14,000 miles NHTSA complaint 554875 filed 2005-09-19

Tl*the contact owns a 2004 dodge grand caravan. The vehicle has good ride tires, size 225/60r/16 (na). While driving 65 MPH, the vehicle shook very badly. The contact had to slow down and pull the vehicle to the side of the road. The mechanic stated that the passenger side rear tires had a round in them and could not be repaired. The current mileage was 34,500 and failure mileage was 34,300.

34,300 miles NHTSA complaint 633651 filed 2007-08-08

Firestone tires split on the side with less than average mileage. I purchased 4 tires approximately 03/10 16 months one tire had 2-3 splits on the side wall. Sears was unwilling to repair or replace the tire. On 03/12 I has a second tire with similar splits and sears replaced the tire because it was deemed faulty. They did not replace the other three tires. This tire model seems faulty and I am making a request that the manufacture replace/recall the tire for safety reasons. *js

183,000 miles NHTSA complaint 915394 filed 2012-04-21

Also reported on the 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan

Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure

22 reports median 100k

Other body or interior problem

13 reports median 86k

Fuel pump failure

9 reports median 105k

Other fuel system problem

9 reports median 85k

Other engine problem

7 reports median 40k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 3 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 3 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 wheel or tire problem happen on the 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan?

Across 3 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 35,000 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 wheel or tire problem on the 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan?

3 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