Unclassified problem on the 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan
1 crash 3 injuries 4 of the 49 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 26 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.
When unclassified problem gets reported
Owners of the 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan report unclassified problem at a median of 60,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles, from 26 reports that carried an odometer reading.
It is the 51st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 22,500 miles at the tenth percentile to 102,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 80,759 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
27% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21,741 miles | 35,369 miles | 59,320 miles | 78,750 miles | 102,500 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
Of these reports, 1 a crash and 3 an injury are 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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 25 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2004 at 220,000 miles.
By volume the 2008 carries the most reports, with 284; the 2015 has 49. 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.
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.
I bought a 2015 dodge caravan avp model and wanted the stow-away roof rack added. It wasn't until I brought the vehicle home that I discovered that the wrong roof rack had been installed. Then I read the owners guide and I found the warning about not drilling into the roof. This warning states: do not add roof racks that require any bolts or screws to mount a rack. It also states that the roof should not be drilled into for any reason. Dodge customer care put me in contact with a technician from mopar, the company that supplies the stow-away roof rack. That is when I learned that mopar will not supply the stow-away rack to the dealerships because it can only be put on at the factory. He told me about the dangers of drilling and putting screws into the roof. Not only could an airbag deploy while the rack is being installed, but if a screw is touching or in near contact with the airbag or wiring, the system could fail later. This means that the 14 screws that were drilled into the roof could potentially cause an accident by deploying the air bags prematurely or they may not work at all in an event that requires them. So far no one…
2015 grand caravan my wife michelle o'connell drive in pulling into our driveway and the headrest restraint system airbag deployed striking my wife in the back of the head van was towed to black chrysler dodge ram in statesville north carolina to be repaired my wife sought medical attention chrysler then demanded the vehicle be inspected by an independent inspector to see if it was in an accident after the report was done in received chrysler notify the dealer do not touch the vehicle the report said the vehicle was flawless which we knew that then chrysler's lawyer contacted us and said we are not fixing your vehicle until you sign paperwork absolving us of any liability which they know they're liable cuz the van is in perfect condition we are reporting this because we believe there is a known defect by chrysler and they're trying to sweep it under the rug they had a similar incident where they had to recall 880000 vehicles in 2013 for the exact same issue chrysler made of direct threat saying we're not going to fix your vehicle and leave it on registerable because of the airbag for inspection and unusable unless you absolve us…
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Also reported on the 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan
Other body or interior problem
Other powertrain problem
Other electrical problem
Other engine problem
Complete transmission failure
Other seat belt problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 49 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 49 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 unclassified problem happen on the 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan?
Across 26 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 60,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is unclassified problem on the 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan?
49 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 11 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