2005 Dodge Durango
Complaints about this year name system gasoline far more often than the other years of this generation — 11% of them, about 19× the usual rate of 0.5%.
Generation 1 of the Dodge Durango, which began in 2004 and ran to 2009. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,567 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 160 |
| Involving a crash | 38 |
| Involving a fire | 21 |
| Recalls | 9 |
| EPA combined | 14 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- stalled — 11.6% of this year's complaints, against 4.4% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: stalled, vehicle stalled, engine stalled, stalled without.
- transfer — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the other years of this generation (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: transfer, transfer case, awd, 4lo.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- tank assembly — 10% of complaints, 18× usual
- storage tank — 9% of complaints, 17× usual
- gasoline storage — 9% of complaints, 17× usual
What owners wrote
FUEL WOULD SPILL FROM THE FUEL TANK WHEN FULL. THE CONTACT REFERENCED NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 09V003000 (FUEL SYSTEM GASOLINE: STORAGE TANK ASSEMBLY) BUT WAS ADVISED BY THE DEALER THAT THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 129,0…
WHEN REFUELING THE VEHICLE, GASOLINE WOULD SPEW BACK FROM THE FILLER NECK AND THE FUEL PUMP WOULD NOT SHUT OFF WHEN THE FUEL TANK WAS FULL. THE CONTACT REFERENCED NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 09V003000 (FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE: STORAGE TANK ASSEMBLY BUT WAS ADVISED…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V352000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V770000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V313000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 09E012000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 09V003000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 07V092000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 06V067000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 05V460000 POWER TRAIN
Showing 8 of 9. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Dodge Durango was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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