Utility Trailer

Owners filed 78 complaints across 14 model years of the Utility Trailer. The 1998 drew the most (12).

Model years14
Complaints78
Recalls14
Fires5
Deaths0

Which Utility Trailer years should you avoid?

Not enough of the record to single a year out. Fewer than 4 Utility Trailer 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 Utility Trailer model year compared

Complaints per year
YearComplaintsRelative volumeRecallsFiresCrashesMost reportedStatus
20131
0——TiresRoutine
20121
0——TiresRoutine
20031
0——WheelsRoutine
20012
21—Service Brakes, ElectricRoutine
20004
2—1TiresRoutine
19995
1——EquipmentRoutine
199812
211Tires › Tread/BeltRoutine
199710
1——Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation ComponentsRoutine
19967
11—Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation ComponentsRoutine
199512
11—Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation ComponentsRoutine
19949
1—1Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation ComponentsRoutine
19936
1——Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation ComponentsRoutine
19926
11—Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation Components › Disc › PadsRoutine
19912
1——Trailer HitchesRoutine

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