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Model years to avoid

Dodge Journey

What it says about you

Opinion

Sold for over a decade with barely a change, mostly to rental fleets. Cheap, roomy, and completely without pretension.

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

14 model years on record, 5,513 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2010 (horn), 2009 (electrical system). 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.

  • camera 2018, 2019, 2020 peak 51.6% of that year's complaints
  • electrical 2009, 2010 peak 30.8% of that year's complaints
  • key 2009, 2010 peak 26.8% of that year's complaints
  • start 2010, 2011 peak 25.9% of that year's complaints
  • rotors 2009, 2012 peak 23% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2020 1 recall 62 complaints
  2. 2019 1 recall 97 complaints
  3. 2018 6 recalls 228 complaints
  4. 2017 2 recalls 196 complaints
  5. 2016 4 recalls 385 complaints
  6. 2015 6 recalls 549 complaints
  7. 2014 7 recalls 409 complaints
  8. 2013 4 recalls 352 complaints
  9. 2012 6 recalls 376 complaints
  10. 2011 4 recalls 169 complaints
  11. 2010 horn 1,084 complaints
  12. 2009 electrical system 1,594 complaints
  13. 2008 0 recalls 8 complaints
  14. 2007 0 recalls 4 complaints

What does a Dodge Journey 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.