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Model years to avoid

Dodge Caliber

What it says about you

Opinion

A hatchback with an unusual shape and an unloved gearbox. You bought on price and you knew.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

7 model years on record, 1,939 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2007 (tie). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • seat 2011, 2012 peak 20.4% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2012 1 recall 49 complaints
  2. 2011 2 recalls 165 complaints
  3. 2010 2 recalls 157 complaints
  4. 2009 1 recall 232 complaints
  5. 2008 0 recalls 377 complaints
  6. 2007 tie 958 complaints
  7. 2006 0 recalls 1 complaints

What does a Dodge Caliber say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.