2006 Dodge Durango
Complaints about this year name time fill far more often than the other years of this generation — 8% of them, about 3× the usual rate of 3.3%.
Generation 1 of the Dodge Durango, which began in 2004 and ran to 2009. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 851 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 160 |
| Involving a crash | 16 |
| Involving a fire | 9 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| EPA combined | 14 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- recalled — 6.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the other years of this generation (2.7×).
- overflows — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: overflows, tank overflows.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- overflows — 6% of complaints, 4× usual
What owners wrote
GASOLINE OVERFLOWS FROM FILLER NECK WHEN FILLING FUEL TANK. A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF GASOLINE OVERFLOWS AFTER GASOLINE PUMP SHUTS OFF.
THE GAS TANK OVERFILLS WHEN FILLING THE TANK. WHEN I FILL THE TANK AT THE GAS STATION THE PUMP WILL NOT SHUT OFF UNTIL AFTER THE TANK OVERFLOWS ONTO THE VEHICLE AND THE GROUND.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V352000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V313000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 09E012000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 06V240000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 05V460000 POWER TRAIN
- 06V044000 AIR BAGS
- 06V039000 VISIBILITY
- 07V092000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Dodge Durango was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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