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Model years to avoid

Volkswagen Eos

What it says about you

Opinion

A folding hard top with a sunroof in it, which is engineering showing off. It leaked eventually and you loved it anyway.

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

10 model years on record, 425 complaints filed. No year stood out against this model's own history — which means it has not drawn unusual complaints, not that it is a good car.

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.

  • takata recall 2010, 2012, 2014 peak 50% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2016 2 recalls 4 complaints
  2. 2015 2 recalls 3 complaints
  3. 2014 3 recalls 40 complaints
  4. 2013 4 recalls 26 complaints
  5. 2012 4 recalls 94 complaints
  6. 2011 2 recalls 18 complaints
  7. 2010 2 recalls 69 complaints
  8. 2009 2 recalls 84 complaints
  9. 2008 0 recalls 47 complaints
  10. 2007 0 recalls 40 complaints

What does a Volkswagen Eos 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.