What is the best year for the Plymouth Voyager?
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
Plymouth Voyager
which year?
Compare every Plymouth Voyager model year the EPA recorded, 1984 to 2000. 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 Plymouth Voyager 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 Plymouth Voyager 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 inspect1996
756 indexed complaint reports; engine and engine cooling is the most-reported component label.
Open the 1996 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect1992701 indexed complaint reports; service brakes, hydraulic is the most-reported component label.
Open the 1992 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect1993615 indexed complaint reports; service brakes, hydraulic is the most-reported component label.
Open the 1993 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 Plymouth Voyager 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.
1999 Plymouth Voyager
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 273
- Combined EPA economy
- 18–35 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 6
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,150–3,400
- Fuel labels
- Electricity · Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsair bags 65engine and engine cooling 60power train 42
Open the 1999 evidence dossier →2000 Plymouth Voyager
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 168
- Combined EPA economy
- 18–20 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 5
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $3,100–3,400
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelspower train 34engine and engine cooling 30service brakes, hydraulic 21
Open the 2000 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2000 has 105 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 1999.
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
Plymouth Voyager 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 168 | power train 34engine and engine cooling 30service brakes, hydraulic 21 | 18–20 | 5 | $3,100–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 1999 | 273 | air bags 65engine and engine cooling 60power train 42 | 18–35 | 6 | $2,150–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 1998 | 323 | engine and engine cooling 84power train 60air bags 59 | 18–20 | 6 | $3,100–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 1997 | 346 | air bags 66engine and engine cooling 65power train 57 | 18–20 | 4 | $3,100–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 1996 | 756 | engine and engine cooling 160air bags 137electrical system 122 | 16–20 | 5 | $3,100–3,850 | Dossier → |
| 1995 | 336 | air bags 90power train 69engine and engine cooling 50 | 17–22 | 9 | $2,800–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 1994 | 529 | air bags 106power train 92engine and engine cooling 71 | 16–20 | 8 | $3,100–3,850 | Dossier → |
| 1993 | 615 | service brakes, hydraulic 178power train 92seat belts 87 | 17–21 | 5 | $2,950–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 1992 | 701 | service brakes, hydraulic 176seat belts 174power train 95 | 16–20 | 6 | $3,100–3,850 | Dossier → |
| 1991 | 520 | service brakes, hydraulic 155seat belts 105structure 73 | 17–20 | 5 | $3,100–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 1990 | 226 | structure 61latches/locks/linkages 46power train 46 | 18–22 | 7 | $2,800–4,000 | Dossier → |
| 1989 | 165 | latches/locks/linkages 43power train 36structure 34 | 17–21 | 6 | $2,950–4,450 | Dossier → |
| 1988 | 91 | latches/locks/linkages 24structure 13engine and engine cooling 11 | 18–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 1987 | 84 | structure 19latches/locks/linkages 18engine and engine cooling 14 | 18–21 | 7 | $2,950–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 1986 | 53 | latches/locks/linkages 9seats 9structure 9 | 18–21 | 4 | $2,950–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 1985 | 31 | latches/locks/linkages 10structure 8engine and engine cooling 4 | 17–21 | 6 | $2,950–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 1984 | 22 | structure 10latches/locks/linkages 9seats 2 | 18–22 | 4 | $2,800–3,400 | 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.