Hyundai Palisade vs Dodge Durango SRT: which is more reliable?
The Dodge Durango SRT is clearly ahead of the Hyundai Palisade on the federal record: 80/100 against 68/100 across every model year we score.
The record, side by side
Hyundai Palisade
- 4 model years scored
- 1,579 owner complaints on record
- about 151 complaints per year on the road
- 19 recall campaigns, 11 safety-critical
- best year 2020 (78/100) · worst 2025 (58/100)
Dodge Durango SRT
- 5 model years scored
- 536 owner complaints on record
- about 17 complaints per year on the road
- 0 recall campaigns, 0 safety-critical
- best year 2020 (96/100) · worst 2021 (51/100)
Mean score is the average across model years from 2013 on, where both records are comparable. How the score works.
Year by year: Palisade against Durango SRT
The comparison that decides the purchase. A nameplate is not one car — a redesign can move the record sixty points inside two years, and the two nameplates rarely move together.
What owners actually complain about
Hyundai Palisade
- Service Brakes — 316 complaints
- Seat Belts — 263 complaints
- Unknown Or Other — 237 complaints
Dodge Durango SRT
- Exterior Lighting — 181 complaints
- Electrical System — 150 complaints
- Unknown Or Other — 68 complaints
They do not fail the same way: the Palisade's complaints concentrate in Service Brakes, the Durango SRT's in Exterior Lighting. That difference matters more to a buyer than the score gap, because it says which repair bill you are taking on.
Years to avoid on each
Hyundai Palisade: no model year scores below 45; the strongest are 2020, 2021.
Dodge Durango SRT: no model year scores below 45; the strongest are 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023.
A year scores below 45 on complaints per year of exposure and recall campaigns. Every car’s years to avoid.
What each costs today
A recent used Hyundai Palisade prices at about $63,100 and a Dodge Durango SRT at about $53,500 — the Dodge Durango SRT is roughly $9,600 less, and they return 21.0 against 13.0 MPG combined.
Class-level estimates re-priced to your country, not a valuation of one car. Method.
FAQ
Is the Hyundai Palisade or the Dodge Durango SRT more reliable?
On the NHTSA record the Dodge Durango SRT scores 80/100 against the Hyundai Palisade's 68/100, averaged across every model year we hold. The Dodge Durango SRT carries about 17 complaints per year on the road against 151 for the Hyundai Palisade.
Which Hyundai Palisade and Dodge Durango SRT years should I avoid?
Hyundai Palisade: no year scores below 45. Dodge Durango SRT: no year scores below 45. Each of those scores under 45 out of 100 on complaints per year of exposure and recall campaigns.
What goes wrong on the Hyundai Palisade and the Dodge Durango SRT?
The largest complaint group on the Hyundai Palisade is Service Brakes (316 complaints); on the Dodge Durango SRT it is Exterior Lighting (181).
Is the Hyundai Palisade or the Dodge Durango SRT cheaper to own?
A recent used Hyundai Palisade prices at about $63,100 and a Dodge Durango SRT at about $53,500, before insurance and the maintenance band. Both pages carry the five-year running-cost figure.