1999 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN Complaints

AT APPROXIMATELY 80,000 MILES AXLE PIN COME LOOSE AND BREAKS THROUGH THE TRANSMISSION CASE. NEED NEW TRANSMISSION. HAVE TO REPLACE TRANSMISSION BUT THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THESE TRANSMISSIONS. I THINK IT SHOULD BE UNDER WARRANTY NO MATTER WHAT THE MILES BECAUSE IT IS A COMMON PROBLEM. THEY DO NOT SELL THE VEHICLE AS A 80,000 MILE THEN REPLACE VEHICLE AND IF IT IS COMMON, I THINK THEY SHOULD REPLACE THE TRANSMISSION AND REPAY EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD TO GET THERE TRANSMISSION REPLACED. *LA

MY AIR BAG LIGHT KEPT COMING ON AND I WAS TOLD BY A DEALER THAT MY AIR BAG WOULD NOT DEPLOY AND MY CAR WOULD NOT PASS INSPECTION UNLESS I GOT IT FIXED. WHICH I DID AND IT COST $250.00. MY CAR IS A 1999 GRAND CARAVAN. THERE WAS A RECALL ON THIS, BUT ONLY UP TO YEAR 1998. WHEN I WROTE TO DODGE THEY TOLD ME THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO, AND MY EMAILS WOULD NOT BE ACKNOWLEDGED. *LA

WELL A FEW MONTHS AGO WE HAD ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS WITH OUR 1999 GRAND CARAVAN. THE MILEAGE, GAS GAUGE, ODOMETER, SPEEDOMETER STOPPED WORKING WHILE I WAS IN THE VAN WITH IT RUNNING IN PARK . IT TURNED OUT BY A CERTIFIED TECH TO BE A MANUFACTURER'S DEFECT BECAUSE IT WAS A WIRE WAS RUBBING ON A MANUFACTURER'S WELD LOCATED IN THE OVERHEAD COMPARTMENT AREA. SO WE PAID FOR IT TO BE FIXED $500 AND NO PROBLEM SINCE. SO CURRENTLY WE HAD OUR AIRBAG LIGHT COME ON ALONG WITH NO HORN OR CRUISE CONTROL. SO I CONTACTED DODGE LIKE SOME OF THESE SITES I READ SAID TO DO BECAUSE SOME OTHER PEOPLE HAD THEIRS WORKED ON FOR FREE AND I GOT A EMAIL WHICH STATES THEY WILL NOT WORK ON EITHER REIMBURSEMENT FOR THE ONE AND NOT EVEN FOR THE AIRBAG LIGHT. I AM CURRENTLY NOT DRIVING THE VAN BECAUSE I WAITED FOR MY RESPONSE FROM DODGE. OUR VAN ONLY HAS AROUND 67,000 MILES ON IT. I HAVE THE EMAIL FROM DODGE IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SHOWING HOW THEY RESPOND. *JB

AIR BAG INDICATOR LIGHT IS ON, HORN AND CRUISE CONTROL DO NOT WORK ON MY 1999 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN. HIGHLY LIKELY, THE PROBLEM IS THE CLOCK SPRING. THERE IS AN EXISTING RECALL FOR 1996 - 1998 GRAND CARAVANS WITH THE EXACT SAME SYMPTOMS. DODGE WILL NOT FIX THE PROBLEM UNTIL THERE IS A RECALL. THEY HAVE SAID THAT IT IS CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR THE 1999 - 2000 MODEL YEAR, BUT APPARENTLY THAT HAS BEEN THE CASE AT THE NHTSA SINCE 2001. MY LAST 8 DIGITS OF MY VIN ARE XR412677. *JB

AIRBAG LIGHT CAME ON, HORN DOESN'T WORK, CRUISE CONTROL DOESN'T WORK. TOOK IT TO THE DEALER SAID THAT THERE HAD BEEN SOME RECALLS ON IT BUT NOT ON MY MODEL...DID SOME RESEARCH AND FOUND THAT THIS IS A CONSISTANT PROBLEM ON THE CARAVANS INCLUDING MY MODEL.*AK

WHILE DRIVING AT NIGHT HEADLIGHT LENSES WERE CLOUDY. THIS CAUSED POOR VISIBILITY TO THE DRIVER. CONSUMER WAS ABLE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE, AND DROVE IT TO THE DEALER FOR INSPECTION. HOWEVER, MECHANIC COULD NOT DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM. *AK

NO EVENTS LEAD TO THE FAILURE, JUST AN IMMEDIATE FAILURE OF MY HORN, CRUISE CONTROL AND AIR BAG SIMULTANEOUSLY. I HAD THE CLOCKSPRING REPLACED.*AK

WHILE DRIVING/IDLING THE HORN/CRUISE CONTROL FAILED TO WORK. AIR BAG LIGHT ILLUMINATED INTERMITTENTLY. DEALERSHIP WAS NOTIFIED, BUT DID NOT RESOLVE THE PROBLEM. *AK

AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT CAME ON AND HORN STOPPED WORKING. WAS TOLD IT WAS A CLOCK SPRING AND NEEDED REPLACED SO BOTH WOULD WORK PROPERLY. ALSO NOTICED DODGE HAD A RECALL ON THIS ITEM FOR YEARS 96-98. WELL THE PROBLEM STILL EXSISTS ON THE 1999.*AK

WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY AT 65 MPH THERE WAS A SUDDEN GRINDING NOISE. A TECHNICIAN INSPECTED THE VEHICLE AND DETERMINED THAT THE TRANSMISSION WAS FALLING APART AND THAT THE VEHICLE SHOULDN'T BE DRIVEN. THE CONSUMER SPOKE TO THE DEALERSHIP WHO INDICATED THAT THESE TRANSMISSIONS HAVE A HIGH FAILURE RATE, BUT THEY DIDN'T INDICATED WHAT IS CAUSING THE FAILURE. *NM