What is the best year for the Dodge Avenger?
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
Dodge Avenger
which year?
Compare every Dodge Avenger model year the EPA recorded, 1995 to 2014. 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 Dodge Avenger 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 Dodge Avenger 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 inspect2008
831 indexed complaint reports; power train is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2008 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2012553 indexed complaint reports; unknown or other is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2012 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2013548 indexed complaint reports; air bags is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2013 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 Dodge Avenger 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.
2013 Dodge Avenger
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 548
- Combined EPA economy
- 22–23 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 3
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,650–2,800
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsair bags 154engine 120unknown or other 102
Open the 2013 evidence dossier →2014 Dodge Avenger
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 205
- Combined EPA economy
- 22–24 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 3
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,550–2,800
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsair bags 69engine 42seat belts 39
Open the 2014 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2014 has 343 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2013.
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
Dodge Avenger 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 205 | air bags 69engine 42seat belts 39 | 22–24 | 3 | $2,550–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 548 | air bags 154engine 120unknown or other 102 | 22–23 | 3 | $2,650–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 553 | unknown or other 163air bags 110electrical system 108 | 22–24 | 3 | $2,550–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 209 | unknown or other 57electrical system 41engine 38 | 22–24 | 3 | $2,550–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 163 | electrical system 40air bags 37vehicle speed control 27 | 20–24 | 3 | $2,550–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 67 | air bags 11engine 11electrical system 10 | 20–24 | 3 | $2,550–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 831 | power train 237electrical system 220vehicle speed control 138 | 18–24 | 5 | $2,550–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 2000 | 22 | service brakes, hydraulic 8power train 7suspension 4 | 20 | 1 | $3,100 | Dossier → |
| 1999 | 62 | service brakes, hydraulic 19suspension 16power train 10 | 20–23 | 3 | $2,650–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 1998 | 58 | suspension 18air bags 8service brakes, hydraulic 8 | 20–23 | 6 | $2,650–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 1997 | 83 | suspension 24service brakes, hydraulic 18air bags 13 | 20–23 | 3 | $2,650–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 1996 | 157 | suspension 67engine and engine cooling 27service brakes, hydraulic 26 | 20–23 | 3 | $2,650–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 1995 | 196 | suspension 66service brakes, hydraulic 41electrical system 21 | 21–23 | 5 | $2,650–2,950 | 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.