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I've oned this yes beautiful van for three years, I just realized the passenger sliding door is bigger than the driver's sliding door
2006 Dodge caravan doors
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The sliding doors on my beautiful van are the exact same size (within reasonable manufacturing tolerances). You must have a special edition.
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No I have a 2006 se yes it is the perfect color white with black trim, and the door's are different sizes
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And what do you mean within manufacturing tolerance ? Because it's a dodge right, if it's good enough for all Bundy it's good enough for me ,
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I didn't mean that in a bad way, sorry.
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You better get your measuring tape out, actually you can easily see the difference by looking at the dogleg area, the passenger side is noticeable wider at the bottom.
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Yes Valhalla he is right
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I didn't want this to be war or anything, I was just sitting in the van 2006 Grand and notice the passenger sliding door is longer than driver's side,....
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No big deal, I really enjoy the van, what can I say, if I knew then what I know now.... I would have saved a fortune in hotel bills
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Well, I certainly stand corrected. I did measure my van before I replied because I didn't want to seem like an idiot by making a comment I can't support. I measured at the top of the door and at the beltline (bottom edge of glass). Those measurements are the same side to side, as I said within manufacturing tolerances. I didn't bother to measure the bottom edge of the doors. Had I done so I would have found the right side door is roughly two inches longer. The rear edge of the door is sloped more steeply on the left side. Apparently this is to provide a some room for the fuel tank filler tube.
I have owned my van for over nine years and have worked on countless customer vehicles in the past and hadn't noticed this. I could not have imagined they might make them asymmetrical like that. Perhaps this design quirk is common knowledge but it is new to me. I probably would never have known were it not for this thread.
So, my apologies to jamesbrent294 for questioning his statement. And my thanks to him and georgef for helping me to learn something new today.
2009 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT (3.8); 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan eL (3.8)
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I first noticed it was when I was making a repair patch for the dogleg area on my 2001, I had only owned it for around 10 years 6 months.
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