2006 Dodge Grand Caravan problems
The 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan has 378 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (16%) concerns steering. Next are air bags (15%) and electrical system (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 378 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Steering 16% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 18 and 7
- Injuries and deaths
- 29 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 64,000 miles 338 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 | 30 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 48 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 72 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 60 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 43 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 35 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 17 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 16 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 10 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 7 |
What the data shows
Of the 338 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 64,000 miles. For steering specifically, the median reported mileage is about 53,000 miles (57 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 18 complaints mention a crash; 7 complaints mention a fire; 29 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2006 ranks 20th most-complained-about out of 31 model years of the Dodge Grand Caravan with enough data (221 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.
I was involved in an traffic accident when another car turned left in front of my car at a light. The airbags deployed and my seatbelt appeared to work. I only had a minor burn mark probably from the airbag, a bruise on one hand and a bruise on my right knee which probably came from the cover of the lower airbag under the steering wheel. There is no problem with these. My wife, the passenger, has bad bruises, some with scraps, across her body from her left waist to her right shoulder.
I was driving my 2006 dodge grand caravan se on the night of I02/11/2014 when a wrong-way driver hit me (head on collision). She turned right to get gasoline (note: not to avoid us, did not know she was going wrong way until we hit her), and we hit her side door, tire area, and the vehicle bounced backwards. I had to push off the steering wheel to prevent my head from going thru the windshield, my father who was the passenger, hit his arm off the dashboard. The air bags did not deploy, which was the issue.
Headlights on my 2006 dodge grand caravan have been intermittent on various occasions. When you turn the switch on, headlights do not always activate. No injuries, no accidents, but could cause a potential accident by not being able to see, or to be seen. Once the problem was recognized, in each instance, by playing with the switch, the lights eventually would come on. First instance was probably in 2007, latest in 2009 on a couple of different occasions.
It first started with the passenger side sliding door lock. It would not automatically lock and had to be done manually. Now the driver's side door lock will not go up and down automatically nor will it do it manually. The door will also not open at all from inside or outside. This is a safety issue because passengers are not able to get out of the vehicle from that side.