What is the best year for the Dodge Durango?
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 Durango
which year?
Compare every Dodge Durango model year the EPA recorded, 1998 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 Dodge Durango 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 Durango 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 inspect1999
1,967 indexed complaint reports; suspension is the most-reported component label.
Open the 1999 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect20051,567 indexed complaint reports; fuel system, gasoline is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2005 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect20041,114 indexed complaint reports; engine 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 Dodge Durango 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 Dodge Durango
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 11
- Combined EPA economy
- 13–20 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 5
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $3,100–5,850
- Fuel labels
- Midgrade Gasoline · Premium Gasoline · Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsunknown or other 4electrical system 2service brakes 2
Open the 2026 evidence dossier →2027 Dodge Durango
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 0
- Combined EPA economy
- 13–20 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 5
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $3,100–5,850
- Fuel labels
- Midgrade Gasoline · Premium Gasoline · Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsNo component label indexed
Open the 2027 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2027 has 11 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
Dodge Durango 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 | — | 13–20 | 5 | $3,100–5,850 | Dossier → |
| 2026 | 11 | unknown or other 4electrical system 2service brakes 2 | 13–20 | 5 | $3,100–5,850 | Dossier → |
| 2025 | 7 | electrical system 4forward collision avoidance 2back over prevention 1 | 13–20 | 5 | $3,100–5,850 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 12 | electrical system 5power train 5engine 3 | 13–21 | 6 | $2,950–5,850 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 27 | exterior lighting 9power train 8electrical system 6 | 13–21 | 6 | $2,950–5,850 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 55 | exterior lighting 24electrical system 11engine 10 | 15–21 | 5 | $2,950–5,050 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 188 | exterior lighting 81electrical system 40unknown or other 23 | 13–21 | 6 | $2,950–5,850 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 54 | exterior lighting 21electrical system 9engine 7 | 15–21 | 5 | $2,950–5,050 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 141 | exterior lighting 45electrical system 37engine 24 | 15–21 | 5 | $2,950–5,050 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 229 | electrical system 86exterior lighting 55unknown or other 32 | 15–21 | 5 | $2,950–5,050 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 210 | exterior lighting 80electrical system 62engine 28 | 17–21 | 4 | $2,950–4,150 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 160 | exterior lighting 53electrical system 40power train 30 | 17–21 | 4 | $2,950–4,150 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 503 | exterior lighting 198electrical system 95seats 92 | 16–20 | 4 | $3,100–4,400 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 782 | exterior lighting 260seats 164electrical system 149 | 16–20 | 4 | $3,100–4,400 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 640 | electrical system 293engine 116fuel/propulsion system 84 | 15–19 | 4 | $3,250–4,700 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 639 | electrical system 346engine 141fuel/propulsion system 89 | 15–19 | 4 | $3,250–4,700 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 797 | electrical system 518engine 179fuel/propulsion system 119 | 15–19 | 4 | $3,250–4,100 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 12 | air bags 3electrical system 2fuel system, gasoline 1 | 15–21 | 6 | $2,950–4,100 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 97 | air bags 26fuel system, gasoline 21fuel/propulsion system 21 | 15–16 | 7 | $3,850–4,100 | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 191 | fuel system, gasoline 40air bags 32fuel/propulsion system 28 | 14–16 | 5 | $3,850–4,400 | Dossier → |
| 2006 | 851 | fuel system, gasoline 421fuel/propulsion system 151electrical system 90 | 12–16 | 7 | $3,850–5,100 | Dossier → |
| 2005 | 1,567 | fuel system, gasoline 598engine and engine cooling 218power train 218 | 14–16 | 5 | $3,850–4,400 | Dossier → |
| 2004 | 1,114 | engine 326engine and engine cooling 255electrical system 251 | 13–16 | 5 | $3,850–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2003 | 339 | suspension 107electrical system 57engine and engine cooling 40 | 13–15 | 4 | $4,100–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2002 | 423 | suspension 164power train 73electrical system 51 | 12–15 | 6 | $4,100–5,100 | Dossier → |
| 2001 | 665 | suspension 346power train 114electrical system 95 | 13–14 | 4 | $4,400–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2000 | 1,075 | suspension 644engine and engine cooling 136power train 131 | 12–15 | 5 | $4,100–5,100 | Dossier → |
| 1999 | 1,967 | suspension 1,657engine and engine cooling 296power train 195 | 12–15 | 6 | $4,100–5,100 | Dossier → |
| 1998 | 965 | suspension 820power train 111steering 103 | 13 | 2 | $4,750 | 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.