1991 DODGE CARAVAN Complaints

WHILE TRAVELING DRIVER NOTICED SMOKE COMING FROM ENGINE. UPON VISUAL INSPECTION ENGINE WAS ENGULFED IN FLAMES. INSURENCE COMPANY TOTALED VEHICLE.*AK

WHILE DRIVING PUT HEAT ON AND STARTED SMELLING GAS FUMES INSIDE OF VEHICLE. TOOK TO DEALER. MECHANIC COULD NOT LOCATE OR SMELL FUMES. NEXT DAY, TURNED ON HEAT TO WARM UP, WENT INSIDE, AND THEN CAME 15 MINUTES LATER AND VEHICLE WAS IN FLAMES. FIRE DEPARTMENT ARRIVED AND PUT FLAMES OUT. CONTACTED MECHANIC, WHO CHECKED VEHICLE , AND INDICATED FUEL LEAK CAUSED FIRE. *AK CONSUMER IS REQUESTING REIMBURSEMENT. *SLC

ORIGINAL PURCHASED ABS FAILED DURING THE FIRST YEAR. REPAIRED. FOLLOWED BY A RECALL IN LATER YEARS. CHRONIC PROBLEMS WITH ABS AND/OR HYDRAULIC BRAKE LIGHTS GOING ON. REPAIRS REQUIRED.*AK

BACK LIFTGATE DOOR DOES NOT STAY OPEN UNLESS PUTTING SOMETHING IN THE DOOR TO HOLD IT OPEN. *AK

CONSUMERS NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH THE HATCH UNTIL THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO DEALER FOR RECALL REPAIR 99V-213 OF THE REAR LIFT GATE, THE MECHANIC STATED THAT RIGHT REAR LIFT GATE SUPPORT WASHERS COULD NOT BE REPLACED PER RECALL DUE TO A PREVIOUS REPAIR TO THE HATCH, NOW THE HATCH CANNOT BE OPENED WITHOUT THE RIGHT SUPPORT FALLING OUT AND IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO CLOSE. NLM

FUEL INJECTOR RACK WAS CAUSING FUEL LEAKAGES ONTO ENGINE. MANUFACTURER NOTIFIED, AND INFORMED CONSUMER NO RECALLS ON THAT PART. *AK ON ONE OCCASION, A FIRE IGNITED DUE TO THE FUEL LEAKAGE, THE FIRE CAUSED DAMAGE TO MANY COMPONENTS, THE STRONG FUEL ODOR CAUSED HEADACHES AND NAUSEA. *SLC

THERE WAS A FIRE IN ENGINE COMPARTMENT DUE TO A FUEL RAIL LEAK. DEALER HAS NOT BEEN CONTACTED.*AK SUBSEQUENT INSPECTION SHOWED LEAKS AT BOTH JOINTS OF FUEL RAIL. THE MANUFACTURER OF THE VEHICLE CLAIMS THAT IT WAS NOT CAUSED BY MANUFACTURING ERROR, BUT THE CONSUMER CITS NTHSA WEBSITES WHERE FUEL INJECTION RAIL DESING WAS STATED TO HAVE CAUSED THE PROBLEM. *YH

PASSENGER'S AND DRIVERS SIDE DOORS DO NOT SHUT PROPERLY. ONE CAN HEAR AIR COMING IN, DOOR WAS LOOSE. THERE IS A PIECE OF THIN METAL WHERE DOOR LATCHES SHUT. IT IS WEARING BECAUSE OF THE MATERIAL IT'S MADE OFF. *AK THE METAL ON WHICH THE DOOR LOCKING DEVICE WAS MOUNTED CRACKED CAUSING THE BOLTS LOOSE AND THE DOOR NOT TO CLOSE PROPERLY. *YH

THERE WAS BLACK SMOKE COMING FROM WHAT LOOKED LIKE TIRES. THEN, BRAKES WENT OUT, HAD IT TOWED, AND MECHANIC SAID CALIPERS WERE MADE OUT OF PLASTIC AND HAD CRUMBLED.*AK

REAR WIPER STUCK IN UP POSITION, TOOK TO DEALER WHO INFORMED HER ONLY FRONT WIPER ON RECALL, SAID WIPER MOTOR NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.*AK