What is the best year for the Chrysler Pacifica?
No official dataset can support one universal best year. Use the table to compare complaint patterns and EPA figures, then open the shortlisted years for recall campaigns and exact specifications.
Model-year matrix
Chrysler Pacifica
which year?
Compare every Chrysler Pacifica model year the EPA recorded, 2004 to 2027. See complaint patterns, fuel economy and configurations side by side, then open any year for recall campaigns and the full dossier. Confirm against the official NHTSA recall search.
Evidence-led answer
Looking for the best Chrysler Pacifica year—or years to avoid?
The official records cannot honestly name a best, worst or most reliable year. Complaint totals have no sales, mileage or age denominator. They can show where more reports were filed and which components were named, giving you years to investigate more closely before checking the exact car and its VIN.
Which Chrysler Pacifica years should you avoid?
The records cannot justify a blanket avoid label. Years with more reports are surfaced below as research priorities, not predictions about every car from that year.
01 · More reports to inspect2017
1,498 indexed complaint reports; engine is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2017 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect20051,244 indexed complaint reports; structure is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2005 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2004896 indexed complaint reports; structure is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2004 dossier →Do not read this as an avoid list. Older and higher-selling model years usually accumulate more reports. A low count can also mean a newer, rarer or poorly matched vehicle—not a safer one.
Complaint totals are counts of owner-submitted allegations, not confirmed defects, and they carry no denominator: they are not adjusted for how many cars were sold, how old they are, how far they are driven, or how much publicity a fault received. A high-volume or older year will usually show more reports than a rare or recent one. The site does not convert these into a reliability score, because the data needed to do that honestly is not in the public record.
Direct comparison
Compare two Chrysler Pacifica model years.
Choose any two years. The URL keeps the pair so you can return to the same comparison. Every figure below is an observed official record or EPA estimate—not a reliability score.
2026 Chrysler Pacifica
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 8
- Combined EPA economy
- 22–30 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,050–2,800
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelselectrical system 4engine 2unknown or other 2
Open the 2026 evidence dossier →2027 Chrysler Pacifica
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 0
- Combined EPA economy
- 20–22 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,800–3,100
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsNo component label indexed
Open the 2027 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2027 has 8 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2026.
This is not a rate or reliability finding. The counts have no sales, mileage, age or exposure denominator, and newer years have had less time to accumulate reports.Side by side
Chrysler Pacifica by year.
Complaint bars are scaled against this model’s own highest year, so they compare years with each other and with nothing else.
| Year | Complaints | Most-reported components | Combined MPG | EPA configs | Annual fuel cost | Dossier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 0 | — | 20–22 | 2 | $2,800–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2026 | 8 | electrical system 4engine 2unknown or other 2 | 22–30 | 2 | $2,050–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2025 | 26 | air bags 7forward collision avoidance 6vehicle speed control 6 | 20–30 | 3 | $2,050–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 40 | electrical system 12power train 11air bags 9 | 20–30 | 3 | $2,050–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 149 | engine 47electrical system 41power train 39 | 20–30 | 3 | $2,050–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 202 | power train 71engine 68electrical system 57 | 20–30 | 3 | $2,050–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 361 | electrical system 147engine 139power train 119 | 20–30 | 3 | $2,050–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 164 | electrical system 60engine 51power train 38 | 20–30 | 3 | $2,050–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 301 | electrical system 93engine 79power train 69 | 22–30 | 3 | $2,050–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 845 | engine 369electrical system 283steering 158 | 22–32 | 3 | $1,900–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 1,498 | engine 520power train 467electrical system 386 | 22–32 | 3 | $1,900–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 102 | electrical system 24engine 21power train 14 | 17–18 | 3 | $3,400–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 326 | power train 90engine 76electrical system 52 | 17–18 | 3 | $3,400–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2006 | 726 | structure 201engine 146power train 111 | 17–18 | 3 | $3,400–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2005 | 1,244 | structure 416engine 224engine and engine cooling 211 | 17–18 | 3 | $3,400–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2004 | 896 | structure 328engine 141suspension 126 | 17 | 2 | $3,600 | Dossier → |
Evidence snapshot generated . “Not indexed” means NHTSA holds no complaint record matching this exact year, make and model — not that no fault occurred. Recall campaigns are not summarised here: NHTSA publishes no bulk recall dataset, and fetching them per year would take longer than the page should. Each year’s dossier shows its recalls in full, live from NHTSA.