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Other visibility problem on the 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan

2 injuries 2 of the 6 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.

Only 5 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 6
With an odometer reading 5
Reports per 1,000 built 1.4 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 80%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 2
Typical repair $150–$1,400
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 15th

When other visibility problem gets reported

There are 6 reports of other visibility problem on the 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan, 5 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 75,000 miles. It is the 15th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 5 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 11,000 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

Of these reports, 2 an injury is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.

Putting it right typically runs $150–$1,400 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 17 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2015, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2009 at 125,000 miles.

By volume the 2001 carries the most reports, with 19; the 2015 has 6. 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 visibility problem 80k
  2. 1997 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 123k
  3. 1998 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  4. 1999 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 88k
  5. 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  6. 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 52k
  7. 2002 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 99k
  8. 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 62k
  9. 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 44k
  10. 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 48k
  11. 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 85k
  12. 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 84k
  13. 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 72k
  14. 2009 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 125k
  15. 2010 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 71k
  16. 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 38k
  17. 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 60k
  18. 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 14k
  19. 2014 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 22k
  20. 2015 (this one) 11k
  21. 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 35k
  22. 2017 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  23. 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 20k
  24. 2019 Dodge Grand Caravan other visibility problem 24k

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.

Tl* the contact owns a 2015 dodge grand caravan. The passenger had their arm on the rear seat window. When the contact rolled the window down, the passenger's skin was rolled into the window and injured. The contact had to roll the window up to release the person's skin. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 1,500.

1,500 miles NHTSA complaint 1189695 filed 2015-06-10

Tl* the contact owns a 2015 dodge grand caravan. While the vehicle was stationary, the heater and defroster on the driver's side of the vehicle failed. Lakeshore chrysler plymouth dodge in montague, michigan was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue. The contact suggested that tsb: r62 regarding the actuator could be a possible cause of the failure. The failure mileage was 11,000. *ln updated 8/30/18*jb

11,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1414539 filed 2017-10-16

Tl* the contact owns a 2015 dodge grand caravan. While the air conditioner was activated, hot air was felt coming from the passenger side vent. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The local dealer was not contacted for diagnostic testing or repairs. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 48,196.

48,196 miles NHTSA complaint 1466567 filed 2018-05-07

Also reported on the 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan

Other body or interior problem

59 reports median 65k

Other powertrain problem

49 reports median 101k

Other electrical problem

26 reports median 60k

Other engine problem

21 reports median 101k

Complete transmission failure

14 reports median 96k

Other seat belt problem

9 reports median 69k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 6 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 6 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 visibility problem happen on the 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan?

Across 5 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 10,000 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 visibility problem on the 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan?

6 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.4 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