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Model years to avoid

Chrysler 200

What it says about you

Opinion

Two very different cars wore this name, and the second one had a famous advert. Neither lasted.

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

9 model years on record, 4,174 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2015 (transmission). 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.

  • heater 2011, 2012 peak 25.5% of that year's complaints
  • headrest 2013, 2014 peak 16.9% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2018 0 recalls 1 complaints
  2. 2017 1 recall 43 complaints
  3. 2016 2 recalls 342 complaints
  4. 2015 transmission 1,983 complaints
  5. 2014 1 recall 192 complaints
  6. 2013 5 recalls 627 complaints
  7. 2012 4 recalls 638 complaints
  8. 2011 3 recalls 335 complaints
  9. 2010 0 recalls 13 complaints

What does a Chrysler 200 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.