2016 Dodge Grand Caravan · symptom sheet
Seat belt or seat problems
- 30owner reports
- 71,000median miles
- 1involved a crash
Newest report Aug 30, 2026 · checked Oct 2, 2026
30 of the 1,001 complaints on this car describe seat belt.
Tick what matches of 30 reports
Seat belt on other Grand Caravan years
Report counts are for each model year on its own, so a newer car has had less time to collect them. Model years with too few reports of it for a sheet: 2017, 2018.
What this problem usually is
This group covers the belt and the seat it's bolted to: buckles that won't latch or won't let go, belts that lock up and won't pull out, and seats that shift or rock in their tracks. It's a wide bucket, with over 9,000 complaints across the vehicles on this site, and a quarter of them mention a recall.
What got replaced
Few of these reports name the part that was replaced.
Recalls and investigations
One recall on the seats covers the 2016 model year. A recall on the same system isn't always the same failure, so read the defect text.
The nuts on the third row seatbacks were incorrectly torqued and may become loose.
All 6 recalls on the 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan, with the owner complaints on each recalled system
NHTSA investigations into the seats on the Grand Caravan
Active head rest inadvertent deployment. Closed feb 25, 2026.
Safety belt anchorage failures. Closed dec 23, 1997, led to recall 97V-149.
Integrated child seat belt lockup. Closed aug 19, 1998, led to recall 97I-001.
Integrated child seat belt lockup. Closed feb 4, 1997.
Safety blt latch operation. Closed jun 28, 1996.
When it happens
The middle half of failures fell between 52,000 and 103,672 miles, from the 15 reports that gave a mileage.
What owners wrote
“The headrest on the driver seat ejected while I was driving. The headrest is unable to go back into the correct position. It looks as if a plastic piece has failed inside the headrest. No accident occurred when the headrest failed. The drivers neck was hurt during the incident. Driver almost lost control of the vehicle”
Filed Jun 26, 2025
“Closed the driver side sliding door and the headrest on the driver seat exploded open. Car was not in motion. Door shut and head rest adjacent to it just popped apart and hit the head of the person in the driver seat.”
Filed Oct 12, 2024
“the head rest deployed without being in an accident and now cannot be re-assembled. This is a recurrent problem with Chrysler vehicles including the Grand Caravan.”
Filed Apr 13, 2024
“Intersection car collision. Seatbelt almost broke out of the holder. It could have cost me my life.”
Filed Oct 28, 2023
Should you keep driving it?
This page can't tell you that. 1 of 30 reports involved a crash and 3 people were hurt. Owners who file are the ones who had a bad experience, and nobody checks their reports. If the problem affects steering, braking, power or a fire risk, treat it as a safety fault and have it inspected before a long or high-speed drive.
File your own report with NHTSA. Complaint counts are how a problem gets an investigation. How reports land on this sheet.
Guide Paid for this repair before a recall covered it? How recall reimbursement works
Other problems on this car
- Sliding door won't open, close or latch 395 reports
- Doors, latches or locks fail 108 reports
- Engine stalls or loses power while driving 71 reports
- Transmission fails or needs replacement 51 reports
- Transmission shudders, slips or shifts hard 42 reports
- Check engine light or misfire 32 reports