Fiat
Fiat 500L problems by year
- 158complaints
- 3recall campaigns
- 1model years with a page
Newest report Jul 11, 2026 · checked Oct 2, 2026
Pick your model year
Owner complaints on file for each year.
Complaints for each year on the road
Each model year's NHTSA complaints divided by the calendar years it has been on sale, counting this one (a 2018 model has had 9). Older cars have had longer to collect complaints, so raw totals flatter the new ones. Blue bars are the years to avoid.
Within one model, sales change less from year to year than they do between models, so a jump here is mostly a jump in problems. The call: the years to avoid are the (up to three) highest at 1.5 times the model's median rate or more, and the best are the (up to three) lowest at two thirds of it or less, from 2016 on.
Guide How much should a years-to-avoid list decide? What these lists get wrong
At a glance
- Where the complaints sit
- The 2014 has the most complaints of any Fiat 500L year here: 158 of 158 (100%).
- Problem across the years
- Transmission warning light is the top problem in every model year with a page, 34 reports in all. Pooled across the years, half of the 26 owners who gave a mileage for transmission warning light were under about 67,000 miles.
- Crash, fire and injury reports
- 4% of Fiat 500L complaints report a crash, a fire or an injury, against 6% for the typical vehicle on this site.
- Recalls on the top problem
- Every model year where owners report transmission warning light also has a recall on the same system. A recall on the same system doesn't always cover the failure owners describe, so compare its summary with the complaints.
- When owners filed
- Filings peaked in 2019 at 27 (full calendar years only). In 2025 there were 13. So far in 2026, 3 more have come in. Filings on record start in 2015.
Photo: Michael Rivera, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Model years with too few complaints for a page of their own: 2015 (23).
Year by year
2014 Fiat 500L
158 owner complaints, 12 for each year on the road (1.7 times the model median). Most reported: transmission warning light (34 reports, median 67,251 miles), stalling (25 reports, median 51,299 miles) and transmission failure (23 reports, median 60,000 miles). 1 report involved a crash. 3 recalls, including 17V-192 on the transmission and drivetrain and 14V-103 on the transmission and drivetrain.
Questions
What is the most common problem on the Fiat 500L?
Transmission warning light, with 34 reports across the 1 model years that have a page here. It's the single most reported problem on the 2014.
How many recalls does the Fiat 500L have?
3 recall campaigns cover the Fiat 500L model years 2014 on this site.
How many Fiat 500L complaints involve a crash, fire or injury?
4% of them, against 6% for the typical vehicle on this site.
Is there a recall for transmission warning light on the Fiat 500L?
Yes, on every model year where owners report it.