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Body · 39 owner reports

Other body or interior problem on the 2019 Dodge Grand Caravan

7 injuries 7 of the 39 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.

Reports of this failure 39
With an odometer reading 15
Reports per 1,000 built 1.3 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 27%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 7
Typical repair $200–$2,000
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 3rd

When other body or interior problem gets reported

Owners of the 2019 Dodge Grand Caravan report other body or interior problem at a median of 50,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 85,000 miles, from 15 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 3rd most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 1,600 miles at the tenth percentile to 110,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 108,847 miles across the middle 80% of reports.

A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.

27% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 15 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
1,553 miles 32,650 miles 50,452 miles 84,500 miles 110,400 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, 7 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 $200–$2,000 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 24 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2003, at a median of 30,000 miles, and latest on the 1997 at 135,000 miles.

By volume the 2005 carries the most reports, with 304; the 2019 has 39. 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 body or interior problem 105k
  2. 1997 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 136k
  3. 1998 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 95k
  4. 1999 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 80k
  5. 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 103k
  6. 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 58k
  7. 2002 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 78k
  8. 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 32k
  9. 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 86k
  10. 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 62k
  11. 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 59k
  12. 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 85k
  13. 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 55k
  14. 2009 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 55k
  15. 2010 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 67k
  16. 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 57k
  17. 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 82k
  18. 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 87k
  19. 2014 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 82k
  20. 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 65k
  21. 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 55k
  22. 2017 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 70k
  23. 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan other body or interior problem 59k
  24. 2019 (this one) 50k

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

Also reported on the 2019 Dodge Grand Caravan

Misfire or rough idle

46 reports median 49k

Other electrical problem

40 reports median 38k

Complete transmission failure

18 reports median 47k

Other powertrain problem

14 reports median 40k

Seat belt or retractor failure

12 reports median 71k

Door latch or handle failure

9 reports median 53k

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 39 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 body or interior problem happen on the 2019 Dodge Grand Caravan?

Across 15 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 50,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 85,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other body or interior problem on the 2019 Dodge Grand Caravan?

39 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.3 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