For every car sold, owners filed somewhat fewer complaints about the 2022 Palisade than about the typical Palisade year. Among the 4 Palisade years with enough complaints to compare, owners filed the fewest about this one, the 2022 (1.74 per 1,000 sold) and the most about the 2023 (3.60).
Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.
0.7 times this nameplate’s own median
Counted from 147 complaints filed in the first three years, of 323 ever. 95% lower bound 1.46. Not counted: 12 complaints that reported only that a recall repair was unavailable, not a failure.
The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters. The bar is how many complaints each rate rests on.
| Model year | Per 1,000 | Complaints | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2.52 | 208 | |
| 2021 | 1.83 | 155 | |
| 2022 | 1.74 | 147 | |
| 2023 | 3.60 | 310 |
Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.
| row | 31 | 43% | |
| unlatched | 16 | 22% | |
| second row | 14 | 19% | |
| randomly | 12 | 17% |
| sunroof | 15 | 29% | |
| glass | 13 | 25% | |
| exploded | 12 | 24% | |
| sunroof exploded | 10 | 20% |
No clear early or late pattern.
Inadvertent Seat Belt Unlatch
For every car sold, owners filed somewhat fewer complaints about the 2022 Palisade than about the typical Palisade year. Among the 4 Palisade years with enough complaints to compare, owners filed the fewest about this one, the 2022 (1.74 per 1,000 sold) and the most about the 2023 (3.60). The typical year is the median across its model years.
The parts owners named most often in complaints filed to date: Seat Belts (72), Engine (52), Unknown Or Other (51). The phrases they used are listed above.
Complaint records cannot settle that on their own. They count safety problems owners chose to report to the federal government, not every repair. What they do show is how this year compares with the other Palisade years: for every car sold, owners filed somewhat fewer complaints about the 2022 Palisade than about the typical Palisade year.
Among years with enough complaints to compare, the 2022, at 1.74 per 1,000 sold. Every Palisade year, ranked.
No guide we read covers the Palisade.
Example records behind this page, each on NHTSA’s own site: