10.0
really awful- Crashes / Fires:
- 1 / 1
- Injuries / Deaths:
- 2 / 2
- Average Mileage:
- 23,000 miles
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Belt under hood keeps falling off and or breaking car seizes up and locks up almost crashed a few times Also engine problems smokes a lot wipers don-??t work windows won-??t go down also transmission jerks when driving
- Albuquerque , NM, USA
9/8/2008 I was traveling on IR80 & I must of swerved a bit & the van struck a dot paddle marker @ humboldt mile marker 45 in Nevada. The van became engulfed in flames & overturned sideways at least 4 times. My mother & father parrished as a result of this accident, burned so much they couldn't recognize their gender. My wife & I escaped with her getting severely burned about 76% & I about 68%, we was transported to humboltd hospital then air transported to U of U burn center salt lake city Utah where she spent about 7 months in ccu burn unit & I about 3 months. The marker post was uprooted & struck the undercarriage of the van & detached the fuel line then punctured the cross member & depositing the fuel line in the hole the fire started then we overturned with a series of explosions. A mechanic explained the severed fuel line was a return line from the evap.canister to the fuel tank & that the fuel system stayed at 49 psi being fed by an electric fuel pump I remember driving speaking with my father, my wife & mom was sleeping in the back seat then I woke up on fire trying to escape the wreckage, I hollered @ my wife & I rolled out of the van. My wife checked mom she was dead then another explosion blew my wife to the front seat between where my dad & I sat, she grabbed dad but he wouldn't come cause of mom. Two people moved my wife after my father shoved her out. I started back to the van when another explosion engulfed my father. I dropped to my knees & told a bystander I just killed my mother & father. My children & family hired a big time lawyer & it was looking good until Chrysler filed for bankruptcy & cleared them from all lawsuits prior to their bankruptcy. My lawyer had to walk away with a $30,000 loss, she was 44 & I was 48 years old prime time of our life we still battle health issues from the burns & never got a red cent from Chrysler.
- Lodi, CA, USA
2000 Dodge Caravan sport's ignition would not turn when correct key was inserted. Was stranded for 2 hours in the pouring rain, in the middle of a severe thunderstorm with the windows down because I could not turn the car on.
- Ypsilanti, MI, USA
2000 Dodge Caravan. *****dims 11 IVOQ entry posted after after 12/12/02 cut-over to artemis****760839.
- Selinsgrove, PA, USA
2000 Dodge Caravan. ***dimsii IVOQ entry posted after 12-12-02 cut over to artemis***760839
- Selinsgrove, PA, USA
The problem was fixed two times, we are looking foward not to happen again. No safety defect listed.
- Toa Alta, PR, USA
- Billings, MT, USA