Dodge Avenger

Which Dodge Avenger years should you avoid?

Going by 3,159 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Dodge Avenger years to avoid are 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2010.

• 2008832 complaints, 4.6× a typical Avenger year, most often about the transmission.
• 2012554 complaints, 3.1× a typical Avenger year, most often about the airbags.
• 2013548 complaints, 3.1× a typical Avenger year, most often about the airbags.
• 20102.5× the usual share of fires, crashes and deaths for a car of its age (8 fires, 16 crashes).

How this is worked out: each year is compared with a typical year of the same model, which takes most of the difference in sales out of it, and its share of serious failures is compared with every other car of the same model year, because older cars were complained about differently. A year needs 25 complaints to be judged at all. Complaints are unverified owner reports. Full method →