Unclassified problem on the 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan
1 crash 1 fire 2 injuries 4 of the 205 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 111 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 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan report unclassified problem at a median of 60,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 44,000 miles and a quarter after 77,000 miles, from 111 reports that carried an odometer reading.
It is the 65th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 24,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 100,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 76,000 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.
14% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24,000 miles | 43,950 miles | 60,000 miles | 76,652 miles | 100,000 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, 1 a crash, 1 a fire and 2 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 2016 has 205. 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.
Purchased this brand new several months ago. Drove 8,000 miles to and from work. Twice within the past week the van has completely just turned off on the highway. I have no idea why. I was just driving down the highway and the van just turned off. It's as if someone were to grab the keys and turn it off. I put it in neutral and restarted and kept driving. Fortunately, I was quick enough and my children and I were safe.
Driving on the interstate, had to apply brakes hard, then had to pump the excellerator and then floore it to get gas to engine to resume momentum. After that it does it does this intermediately, maybe for quite awhile the same day and not again for weeks. The check engine light does not come on and there are times that the RPM's have jumped up to 4 and almost 5, the engine sounds like a race car and little movement and then quickly lunges forward, at other sounds like it has shifted and you still have not increased in speed. The dealership kept this vechile over a week and they had no problems. Another date it was doing this was on an exit ramp from the interstate in creeping, stop and go traffic. Taken straight to dealership from there acting up all the way. Vechile was not shut off when rep from service department went as passenger there were no problems.
The sliding doors latches need to be replaced 2 years after I bought it the dealership says there is something wrong with them that they seem a lot of these why isn't there a recall on them
Also reported on the 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan
Other electrical problem
Other body or interior problem
Other powertrain problem
Ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure
Door latch or handle failure
Other engine problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 205 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 205 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 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan?
Across 111 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 60,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 44,000 miles and a quarter after 77,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is unclassified problem on the 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan?
205 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 47 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