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Model years to avoid

Chrysler Pacifica

What it says about you

Opinion

You gave up on the pretence and bought the sliding doors, and within a week you understood that everyone still pretending is wrong. You are evangelical about this now. It is a lot.

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

16 model years on record, 6,628 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2018 (head gasket), 2017 (gear), 2006 (rusted), 2005 (engine cradle). 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.

  • cradle 2005, 2006, 2008 peak 28% of that year's complaints
  • frame 2005, 2006 peak 17% of that year's complaints
  • displayed 2021, 2022 peak 11.9% of that year's complaints
  • start stop 2018, 2019 peak 7.6% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2026 3 recalls 10 complaints
  3. 2025 8 recalls 48 complaints
  4. 2024 11 recalls 80 complaints
  5. 2023 14 recalls 296 complaints
  6. 2022 10 recalls 201 complaints
  7. 2021 7 recalls 359 complaints
  8. 2020 5 recalls 164 complaints
  9. 2019 7 recalls 383 complaints
  10. 2018 head gasket 1,061 complaints
  11. 2017 gear 1,572 complaints
  12. 2016 0 recalls 2 complaints
  13. 2008 0 recalls 102 complaints
  14. 2007 0 recalls 380 complaints
  15. 2006 rusted 726 complaints
  16. 2005 engine cradle 1,244 complaints

What does a Chrysler Pacifica 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.