Fiat 124 Spider

Owners filed 66 complaints across 4 model years of the Fiat 124 Spider. The 2017 drew the most (33).

Model years4
Complaints66
Recalls8
Fires1
Deaths0

Which Fiat 124 Spider years should you avoid?

Not enough of the record to single a year out. Fewer than 4 Fiat 124 Spider model years have at least 25 complaints and are old enough to judge, so any ranking would be noise. The table below has every year as filed.

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 →

Every Fiat 124 Spider model year compared

Complaints per year
YearComplaintsRelative volumeRecallsFiresCrashesMost reportedStatus
20208
1——Air BagsRoutine
20199
3——Seat BeltsRoutine
201816
2——Air BagsRoutine
201733
211Air BagsRoutine

Data: NHTSA complaint and recall files, October 2026. Complaints are unverified owner reports.