I purchased a cpo 05 grd caravan from a local dealer. Within months the electric door locks would go up and down while unlocking the doors by the key, would go up and down while traveling down the road & while opening the electric windows while inside the van..* * the steering wheel would lock up while pulling out onto the road. My wife and kids could have been killed by the approaching fully loaded log truck. The van was taken to the lithia in roseburg & was informed of the issued. It was inspected and the reply was that "they could not find any problems & they said they could not get the door locks to go up and down. The van was taken in a 2nd time on 07/28/2006 with the same issues, again they kept the rig and told us they could not get the door locks to do anything. On 04/07/2006 the van was taken in to lithia after kendall said that they could not work on the van because of us buying it from lithia. So the van was returned to lithia with the same problems along with the rt rear brake light staying ..you know the sad thing is I still own 15k on this van. The steering on the van locked up again while traveling down the road and almost caused an accident with my wife and kids in the van. I just pray that when we take it in for the "4th time" and we leave it at the dealership to fix, that they will get it done right and that if we either keep the van or trade it off that nobody gets killed from this major safety issue. I feel that I have been shafted due to having a cpo and dodge dealers are not able to do their job due to skills or ?. I sure hope that if you are in an accident and your unable to get out of the van due to the door locks you don't burn up or if you can not open the door that hopefully somebody can get the door open from the outside of the van. Oh I forgot, when I go over a speed bump it sounds like the engine is going to drop out.
2005 Dodge Grand Caravan electrical complaints
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Dear sirs: 2005 dodge grand caravan se . It has had numerous problems, few of which were fixed properly when brought back to the dealership. Finally, on october 04, 2006, with 29000+ miles on the vehicle, an axle broke as my son, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren under two years old pulled out of a parking lot onto the road. Had this happened on an interstate, with the vehicle moving at a high rate of speed, there is every likelihood that a fatal accident would have occurred. Axles do not break except under extreme circumstances or when there is some fatal fault with the manufacture itself. This is not a vehicle which has been abused. It has been used to transport housewives and small children back and forth to school, to grocery, etcetera. It has been serviced at all proper intervals at the mechanicsville, va dealership where it was purchased. Except to move the vehicle so as to avoid storage charges, I will not have any member of my family transported in this vehicle. The service department at mechanicsville dodge claims to have repaired the vehicle and that it is safe. They have all ''' driven it and it drives fine!'' that is illogical for a number of reasons. First, it ''drove fine'' right up until the moment the axle broke, even though numerous electrical and other problems existed which were not fully repaired at that time. Second, I have absolutely no reason, based on my past experiences with shoddy work and outright falsehoods at this store, to believe that this shop is capable of properly repairing the vehicle. Third, there is no reason to believe that other life threatening problems do not exist, lurking in this vehicle to strike my family if we were to trust it or mechanicsville dodge once again with our lives.
Vehicle stops. Motor shuts off, no power available. At highway speeds. Very dangerous loss of control in traffic! Happened at least 4 times from date of purchase may 2005 to august 2006, but only at start up in parking lot. Then it happened at highway speed on the highway with 4 children in van ages 1, 2, 8 and 10 years old! Have no faith in safety of vehicle! Dealer still wants me to drive around with the kids in this condition and I cannot put my children in danger.
2005 grand caravan electrical system has been serviced on five different occasions. Door lock and air bag indicator malfunctions. *ts ***nar***
This is the latest in a series of headlight failures on a dodge g.v. Van. Today, the headlights would not come on when the switch was pulled until I cut it on and off 4-5 times. The driving lights would blink on-off while driving and the switch was off for those lights. Then the headlights went out totally when I was driving about 45 MPH after 7 :00 pm....in the dark!! As I said, this is about the 3rd-4th time that this has happened and it is not something I want to continue. I have had it to two(2) dealers and they cannot find the problem. Thanks for listening.
On jan 22,05 I had my 05' dodge grand caravan in the dealership because my air bag light had come on, they supposedly replaced my sensor along w/ my wiring harness, well on feb 26 06 my air bag light came on again, the dealership deal maker said I could bring my car in but I'll have to pay for it to be checked along w/ any repair, and this is because my warranty had expired. I don't feel I am responsible to pay for any repair on this. None the less for them to supposedly replace my sensor last year, along w/ my wiring harness and spark plugs beause of misfiring etc. To have bought this car used in nov of 04 and then to have it in on jan 05 is a little ridiculous. I have 40 some thousand miles on my car. And this issue should of been done correct the first time.
Dt*: the contact stated the headlights, dash board lights and dome lights intermittently flicker. The vehicle was taken to the local dealership numerous times for repair. The dealership mechanic replaced the headlight switch, body control module, alternator, inspected and cleaned the ground circuits. These modifications and repairs to the vehicle were unsuccessful.
At 500 miles the electrical system malfunctioned leading to loss of instrument cluster, windshield wipers, AC, and power sliding doors.
Vehicle experienced problems with electrical odor constantly appearing to be burning, and the air bag light would intermittently illuminate while driving. Vehicle had been to the dealer shop on several occasions, and they were unable to locate the cause of the problems.*ak phone interview update (oct 24, 2005): the dealer replaced both air bag frontal impact sensors (part # 4686957ac) one at a time. However, the air bag warning light still comes on during wet weather conditions.
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