2017 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN Complaints

OUR 2017 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN GT SUFFERED A TORQUE CONVERTER FAILURE AT 63,095 MILES WHILE DRIVING IN GEAR AT APPROXIMATELY 50 MPH, CREATING A WHINING SOUND WHILE MOVING UNTIL WE WERE ABLE TO GET THE VEHICLE TO A STOP, AND THEN SHUDDERING AND REVVING HIGH WITHOUT POWER WHILE WE MOVED IT BRIEFLY TO A SAFE LOCATION TO PARK IT FOR TOWING. THE VEHICLE HAD TO BE TOWED TO A DEALER BECAUSE THE TRANSMISSION WAS INOPERATIVE. UPON DIAGNOSIS, DODGE DEALERSHIP CONFIRMED TORQUE CONVERTOR HAD FAILED AND THAT THE MATERIAL FROM THE TRANSMISSION HAD TO BE DISASSEMBLED AND OVERHAULED TO REMOVE THE MATERIAL FROM THE TRANSMISSION. WE WERE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE BEEN TRAVELING AT A LOW SPEED AND NEAR A PARKING LOT THAT WE COULD PULL OF INTO AND IMMEDIATELY STOP THE VEHICLE, AS I HAD MY WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN IN THE CAR. DODGE POWERTRAIN WARRANTY EXTENDS TO 60,000 MILES AND DOES NOT COVER THIS REPAIR UNDER A WARRANTY REPAIR (3,095 MILES OUT OF WARRANTY).

DRIVER SIDE DOOR DOES NOT LOCK OR UNLOCK WITH BUTTON INSIDE OR BUTTON ON KEY FOB

REAR POWER SLIDING DOOR STUCK CLOSED. THE REAR POWER SLIDING DOOR APPEARS TO HAVE NO MANUAL METHOD OF OPENING. WHEN ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS FAIL THE PASSENGERS HAVE NO WAY OF FORCING OPEN. THE DEALERSHIP HAD THE VEHICLE FOR 2 DAYS BEFORE BEING ABLE TO OPEN THE DOOR.

MY PROBLEM WITH MY CAR IS THAT THE DRIVER AND PASSENGER AIRBAGS EXPLODED WITHOUT HAVING A CAR OR A CAR THAT CRASHED ME I WAS DRIVING MY NORMAL CAR AND SUDDENLY THE AIR BAGS EXPLODED. AND THE MOST UNBELIEVABLE THING IS THAT IT IS A FACTORY FAULT BECAUSE THE DAY THE AIRBAGS EXPLODED THEY EXPLODED I HAD NO PASSENGER NEXT TO ME AND THE PASSENGER AIRBAG AND SEAT BELTS ALL DAMAGED AND MY PASSENGER WINDOW IS ALL BROKEN. I HAVE ALREADY CALLED THE DODGE DEPARTMENT AND THEY DO NOT GIVE ME ANY RESULTS SINCE AN IMPECTOR FROM THE DODGE COMPANY ALREADY WENT TO SEE MY CAR AND HE SAID THAT IT IS A FACTORY FAULT AND I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY CAN'T HELP ME WITH THIS FAULT I MAKE MY CAR AND I CAN'T DRIVE IT AND I'M PAYING FOR THE CAR AND I KEEP LOSING MY MONEY WITHOUT USING MY CAR PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE

VEHICLE HAD PRIOR ISSUES OF STALLING WHEN STOPPED IN TRAFFIC WHICH RESULTED IN TRANSMISSION BEING REPLACED UNDER WARRANTY. SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER TRANSMISSION WAS REPLACED, THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT TURN ON AT ALL AFTER JUST HAVING DRIVEN THE VEHICLE 30 MINUTES PRIOR. BOTH THE BATTERY AND ALTERNATOR HAD TO BE REPLACED. VEHICLE IS 3 YEARS OLD AND HAS JUST UNDER 60,000 MILES.

COOLING SYSTEM STOPPED WORKING, FREON WAS COMPLETELY EMPTY, REFILLED THEN EMPTY AGAIN THE NEXT DAY. RUNNING DEFROST OR HEAT MAKES THE CAR SMELL LIKE ELECTRIC FIRE.

DOORS WON'T OPEN OR UNLOCK WITH KEY FOB, ROOF PANEL BUTTONS OR MANUALLY. THIS HAPPENS RANDOMLY. BACK SLIDING DOORS WILL ALSO RANDOMLY OPEN WHEN VAN IS PARKED AND TURNED OFF.

LOUD BUZZING NOISE WHEN LOCKING AND UNLOCKING REAR PASSENGER SLIDING DOOR. YOU HEAR THE NOISE 100% OF THE TIME WHEN DEPRESSING THE ELECTRIC DOOR LOCK BUTTON, EITHER TO LOCK OR UNLOCK.

DRIVER'S SIDE PASSENGER DOOR LOCKING MECHANISM BUZZES WHEN LOCKING. IT MUST BE MANUALLY UNLOCKED TO OPEN DOOR.

SLIDING DOOR ON SIDE GOT STUCK AND IS STUCK IN THE LOCK POSITION AND WON'T OPEN MANUALLY OR ELECTRONICALLY OR BY BUTTON. VEHICLE WAS STATIONARY.