Owner-reported complaints naming the transmission system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the automatic or manual transmission, including shifting behaviour, shudder, slipping and transmission control modules. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1992 Dodge Caravan submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 103 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
The 25 most recent of 103, in the owner's own words
ENGINE HESTIATES. ENGINE MOUNTS, LIFTER, TIMING CHAIN AND TIMING CHAIN COVER REPLACED. VEHICLE COMPLETELY STALLED OUT. DEALER FOUND LARGE HOLE IN ENGINE WHERE PISTON ROD WENT THROUGH ENGINE BLOCK. TRANSMISSION MAKING CLUNK TYPE NOISE AND HAD TO BE REPAIRED. RACK AND PINION ON STEERING HAD TO BE REPLACED. *TT *NLM
NO SUMMARY LISTED FOR ABOVE VEHICLE. *AK
AUTOMATIC SHIFT CABLE LOCATED IN THE STEERING COLUMN WILL BEND, NOT ALLOWING CONSUMER TO SHIFT GEARS. DEALERSHIP HAS NOT EXAMINED VEHICLE. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/ATTACHMENTS.*AK
SPRINGS THAT HOLD ROLLING GEAR PIN WITHIN TRANSMISSION ARE NOT STRONG ENOUGH, AND PIN IS TURNING SIDEWAYS, CAUSING IT TO LOCK UP/ CANNOT GO INTO GEAR. CONSUMER HAS REPLACED TRANSMISSION 3 TIMES AT 90,000/ 110,000 MILES AND AGAIN A FEW WEEKS LATER. MANUFACTURER HAS ISSUED A TSB, STATING PART IS AVAILABLE THAT CAN BE INSTALLED IN TRANSMISSION, AND WILL PREVENT FAILURE. *AK
WHEN PULLING INTO DRIVEWAY VEHICLE WAS BEING PLACED INTO REVERSE AND IT JUMPED OUT OF DRIVE GEAR INTO SECOND DRIVE, AND THEN JUMPED INTO FIRST DRIVE. VEHICLE FAILED TO RESPOND. CONSUMER CONTACTED SERVICE DEALER, WHO DETERMINED THAT SHIFT LEVER WAS BENT.*AK THE SHIFT LEVER WAS STRAIGHTENED AND THE PROBLEM WAS SOLVED. THE COMPUTER FAILED. *YH
WHILE TRAVELING DOWN ROAD IF VEHICLE HIT ANY LITTLE PEBBLES, VEHICLE WOULD GO TO THE RIGHT VERY BADLY. VEHICLE CONSTANTLY PULLED TO RIGHT. SOMETIMES WHEN TRYING TO PUT CAR IN PARK, IT WOULDN'T GO, AND WOULD HAVE TO SIT FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES BEFORE GETTING IT INTO PARK.*AK *SLC
WHILE DRIVING AT HIGHWAY SPEED TRANSMISSION WILL DOWNSHIFT INTO SECOND GEAR. THIS IS AN ELECTRONIC AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION. PLEASE ADD ANY FURTHER INFORMATION. *AK
TRANSMISSION FAILED TWICE. *SLC
LAST YEAR, THE VAN STARTED REFUSING TO UP SHIFT WHILE DRIVING. I WOULD HAVE TO PULL OVER, STOP THE ENGINE, AND RESTART IT TO GET THE TRANSMISSION TO START TO WORK. I HAD THE TRANS REBUILT (DODGE KIT) FOR $1700. LESS THAN 6 MONTHS LATER, WHILE DRIVING 55 ON THE FREEWAY, THE VAN STOPS MOVING FORWARD AND THE TRANS IS DEAD AGAIN. I HAVE SEARCHED THE INTERNET AND FOUND NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS ABOUT OTHER YEARS AND OTHER MODELS OF DODGE TRANSMISSIONS (WWW.AEI.CA/~GREGOIRE/CLAUDE.HTML). SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE ABOUT DODGE AND THEIR TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS. OUR MECHANIC NOW WANTS $1200 MORE TO FIX OUR VAN. WE JUST CAN'T AFFORD IT AFTER THE $1700 LAST YEAR. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A CLASS ACTION SUIT FILED AGAINST DODGE. THIS PROBLEM SHOULD HAVE BEEN CORRECTED, NOT SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET. I TRY TO BUY AMERICAN, BUT INCIDENTS LIKE THIS MAKE WE WISH I HADN'T.*AK
WHILE DRIVING TRANSMISSION SLIPS INTO A LOWER GEAR. MANUFACTURER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED.*AK
TRANSMISSION DOESN'T GO FROM 3RD GEAR TO DRIVE . THERE IS A SERIOUS PROBELM WHEN GOING UP HILLS. DEALER SAYS IT'S A CONTROLER INSIDE TRANSMISSION. TRANSMISION WA REBUILT AT CONSUMERS COST.*AK
AIRBAG LIGHT COMES ON SOMETIMES. DEALER SAID WHEN LIGHT IS ON IT'S AN INDICATION THAT AIRBAG WILL NOT DEPLOY.*AK DEALER SAYS IT IS DUE TO A FAILURE OF THE SPRING IN THE STREEING COLUMN. THE DRIVER DID NOT WANT SPRING REPAIR, BUT SAY LIGHT GOES OFF WHEN SEAT BELT IS TIGHTENED. THE VEHICLE ALSO DEVELOPED SHUDDER AS IT SHIFTS THE FORWARD GEARS, PARTICULARLY BETWEEN SPEED OF 44 AND 50 MPH. WITH LIGHT ACCELERATION. *YH
NO SUMMARY LISTED FOR ABOVE VEHICLE. *AK
NO SUMMARY LISTED FOR ABOVE VEHICLE. *AK
TRANSMISSION FAIL AND HAD TO BE OVERHAULED TWICE. NLM
THIS WAS THE SECOND TIME THAT TRANSMISSION TOTALLY WENT OUT WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF EACH OTHER. CONSUMER WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COST OF REPLACEMENT. DEALER INSISTED THAT THERE WAS A PROBLEM. BUT, MANUFACTURER SAID THEY DIDN'T SEE A PROBLEM. *AK
TRANSMISSION FAILLURE CAUSED GEAR TO DISENGAGE SUDDENLY WHILE DRIVING. YH
IN FEBRUARY, 1999, VEHICLE WOULD NOT SHIFT OUT OF GEAR. TRANSMISSION WAS OVERHAULED THROUGH THE INSTALLATION OF A KIT. IN JULY, VEHICLE WOULD NOT STAY IN PARK. WHEN ON AN INCLIDED IT WOULD BOUNCE TO THE GROUND. WHILE IN DECEMBER, VEHICLE WOULD NOT GO INTO PARK. CONSUME RTHINGS PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE ORIGINAL, AND THAT THE WORK WAS NOT DONE PROPERLY. WHILE VEHICLE WA SFIXED, CONSUMER HOPES IT WOULD OUTLAST THE WARRANTY. *AK
THE SPIDER GEAR PIN IN THE TRANSMISSION BROKE, CAME OUT OF THE TRANSMISSION CASE AND HIT THE FLOORBOARD. TRANSMISSION HAS BEEN REPLACED ONCE. THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE MANUFACTURER AND DEALERSHIP. PROBLEM HAS NOT BEEN CORRECTED. THIS IS ACOMMON PROBLEM WITH THE 604 TRANSMISSION. *AK
WHILE RIVING ON THE INTERSTATE 55MPH THE TRANSMISSION SLIPPED OUT OF GEAR, AND THE ENGINE WAS JUST RACING. PULLED OFF THE ROAD TO RESET THE VEHICLE. THE CAR WAS IN OVERDRIVE, SLIPPED OUT OF OVERDRIVE TO SECOND GEAR. PULLED OVER AGAIN TO RESTART. WAS GOING UP THE HILL, HEARD A CLUNKING NOISE AND COULD FEEL IT. THEN IT DROPPED INTO A LOWER GEAR. WAS TOLD BY A LOCAL TRANSMISSION SHOP THAT A COMPUTER SENSOR WHICH WAS ATTACHED TO THE TRANSMISSION WENT OUT. AS A RESULT, TRANSMISSION REPLACED. *AK
WHEN DRIVING AT ANY SPEED THE VEHICLE IS SHIFTING HARD AND THHEN JERKS. ALSO, THERE IS A LOSS OF POWER. *AK
NO SUMMARY
NO SUMMARY.
WHEN DRIVING AT ANY SPEED THE VEHICLE WON'T GO INTO REVERSE AND THE VEHICLE IS STALLING AND JERKING DUE TO THE TRANSMISSION GOING OUT. *AK
TRANSMISSION JUMPED INTO LOW GEAR WHILE DRIVING. NLM
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