1994 Dodge Caravan problems
Owners have filed 836 complaints with NHTSA about the 1994 Dodge Caravan. Transmission is the most reported problem area, at 14% of complaints. After that come air bags (13%) and body & structure (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 836 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Transmission 14% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 116 and 7
- Injuries and deaths
- 159 and 5
- Typical mileage
- 108,000 miles 28 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 2 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 0 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 1 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 3 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 7 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 8 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 0 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 3 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 1 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 2 |
What the data shows
Among the 28 complaints that report mileage, the typical (median) problem appeared at about 108,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 116 complaints mention a crash; 7 complaints mention a fire; 159 injuries reported; 5 deaths reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 83% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1994 ranks 5th most-complained-about out of 26 model years of the Dodge Caravan with enough data (529 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 3 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Vehicle 1 was traveling when vehicle 2 came over into his lane. Neither air bag deployed in this head on collision, there were 3 injuries and 2 deaths in this accident, claim 01-6239-721.
I lost control of the van trying to stop instead of hitting the truck I hit the steering wheel froze the brakes locked and the gas pedal sped up dodge said its not there fault please check it out and see if the van was to blame also the seat belts did not work because I hit the window before the airbags deployed please help.
While driving the rear hatchback liftgate come open intermittently experience 4 times, handicap conversion ea94-005 active. Tt
Driver side door opened while rounding a bend causing me to almost fall out of the vehicle. If it hadn't been for the seat belt I would have fallen out. After the door opened I swerved loosing control however there wasn't an on coming vehicle at the time. From the force of the door swinging open both of the joints broke off and the service man at our local dealer informed us that he sees many of these problems on the 1994/1995 models.