2005 Dodge Neon
This year drew 95 complaints against a median of across the Dodge Neon's other years. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 4 recalls, listed below.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 95 |
|---|---|
| Involving a crash | 23 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 09E012000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 06E049000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 08E033000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 06E026000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
How this was worked out
Every year of the Dodge Neon 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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