2012 Caravan filling with dust

kramerknut · May 29, 2017

We are on our 5th Caravan and certainly the 3.6 Pentastar is the best engine Dodge has ever put into their minivans.

Anyway, we have a 2012 GC and moved out to the country which unfortunately has 7.0 km of gravel road to drive. Our Caravan is filling with dust and coating everything. I tightened up the striker posts but no difference. Blower on max or recirc. makes no difference. We can actually taste the dust in the air while driving.

Anyone ever find a fix for this issue? The electrical tape fixed the squeaky sliding doors thankfully but this issue has no known fix. Our other vehicles don't leak like this.

GCTruckster · May 29, 2017

Did you try changing cabin air filter? I would also avoid setting the blower on max. Low setting and recirc while on gravel road.

JC1 · May 29, 2017

+1 on the Cabin filter. Take a picture of the cabin filter so we can see how dirty it is. Maybe you need to make your own cabin filter out of a high end furnace filter like a 3m fikter. I have a 3m purple filter on my furnace and it traps a lot of dust.

invader · May 30, 2017

You'll notice the dust in not coming in at the cabin air filter, if it even has one... Check rear AC vent opening which is allowing dust ingestion.

http://forum.chryslerminivan.net/sh...01513-Does-anyone-else-drive-gravel-roads-Dusty-smell-inside-2011-Grand-Caravan

http://www.justanswer.com/dodge/403bw-02-grand-caravan-dust-infilaration-rear-air-system.html

http://forum.chryslerminivan.net/showthread.php/140586-interior-dust-dirt-accumulation-near-rear-A-C

kramerknut · May 30, 2017

Sorry. I wasn't more clear. Not coming through the vents. Also recirc and low setting doesn't do anything. Fan on full to pressurize the cabin has a bit of an effect but still plenty of dust trails at the sliding doors and the hatch.

2012 Caravan filling with dust

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