What is the best year for the Dodge Journey?
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 Journey
which year?
Compare every Dodge Journey model year the EPA recorded, 2009 to 2020. 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 Journey 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 Journey 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 inspect2009
1,433 indexed complaint reports; electrical system is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2009 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2010988 indexed complaint reports; electrical system is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2010 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2015552 indexed complaint reports; engine is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2015 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 Journey 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.
2019 Dodge Journey
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 100
- Combined EPA economy
- 19–21 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 3
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,950–3,250
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsunknown or other 29electrical system 23back over prevention 19
Open the 2019 evidence dossier →2020 Dodge Journey
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 63
- Combined EPA economy
- 21 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 1
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,950
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsunknown or other 19electrical system 18back over prevention 13
Open the 2020 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2020 has 37 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2019.
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 Journey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 63 | unknown or other 19electrical system 18back over prevention 13 | 21 | 1 | $2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 100 | unknown or other 29electrical system 23back over prevention 19 | 19–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 230 | electrical system 71unknown or other 45engine 29 | 19–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 196 | electrical system 59engine 43power train 31 | 19–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 385 | engine 113power train 86electrical system 84 | 19–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 552 | engine 134electrical system 119service brakes 94 | 19–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 410 | electrical system 104engine 97service brakes 80 | 19–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 352 | electrical system 73engine 72service brakes 61 | 19–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 376 | electrical system 116engine 97service brakes 95 | 19–22 | 3 | $2,800–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 169 | service brakes 47electrical system 43engine 29 | 19–22 | 3 | $2,800–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 988 | electrical system 616engine 164unknown or other 111 | 18–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 1,433 | electrical system 771air bags 271service brakes, hydraulic 203 | 17–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,600 | 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.