Fiat 500l

Owners filed 209 complaints across 4 model years of the Fiat 500l. The 2014 drew the most (183).

Model years4
Complaints209
Recalls5
Fires5
Deaths0

Which Fiat 500l years should you avoid?

Not enough of the record to single a year out. Fewer than 4 Fiat 500l 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 500l model year compared

Complaints per year
YearComplaintsRelative volumeRecallsFiresCrashesMost reportedStatus
20171
0——Vehicle Speed ControlRoutine
20162
0——Power TrainRoutine
201523
2——Air BagsRoutine
2014183
355Power TrainRoutine

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