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Data through Oct 2026
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Fiat 500L

Every Fiat 500L model year on file, 2015 to 2020. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years260 involved a crash, fire, injury or death
Model years62015 to 2020
Recall campaigns1Distinct campaigns listing it
Service bulletins158Summed across model years
By model year

The 2015 model year drew the most complaints, 23, 88% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

010203020152320162017201820192020
Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.
Components

Powertrain leads the Fiat 500L complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Powertrain
7
Airbags
5
Electrical system
4
Steering
2
Brakes
2
Speed control
2
Engine and cooling
2
Back-over prevention
1
Lighting
1
Visibility and wipers
1
Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.
Model years

The record for each Fiat 500L model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

Fiat 500L by model year
YearBodyComplaintsSeverity indexPeer indexRecallsInvestigationsBulletins
2020Not decoded0NoneNone001
2019Not decoded0NoneNone001
2018Not decoded0NoneNone001
2017SUV10.02000
2016SUV20.050079
2015SUV230.0512076
Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.
Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Fiat 500L

  • 15V-590 Sep 23, 2015
    Affected vehicles may be equipped with a passenger frontal air bag that was not folded properly during the assembly process
    Airbags ยท 15 vehicles
Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.