2007 Dodge Durango
This year drew an ordinary 275 complaints for a Dodge Durango — the model's median is 160. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.6% of them mention 4x4, against 1% across the other years of this generation.
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 | 275 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 160 |
| Involving a crash | 15 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 15 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- 4x4 — 7.6% of this year's complaints, against 1% across the other years of this generation (7.4×). Owners wrote it as: 4x4, durango 4x4, 4x4 contact.
- signal — 6.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: signal, turn signal, wipers, left turn.
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.
What owners wrote
WHILE MOVING OR AT REST, ACTIVATING TURN SIGNALS TO TURN RIGHT, IT RARELY SIGNALS. WHILE ACTIVATING LEFT TURN SIGNAL, THE RIGHT WILL BLINK THE MAJORITY OF HE TIME. AT TIMES THE CORRECT DIRECTION WILL BLINK AND THEN CHANGE DIRECTIONS BEFORE THE TURN IS MADE AND…
NO INCIDENT TO REPORT. TURN SIGNAL MALFUNCTIONED WHEN SIGNALING LEFT TURN. BOTH SIGNALS FLASHED.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V352000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V313000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 06V386000 STEERING
- 06V341000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
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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