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Model years to avoid

Dodge Challenger

What it says about you

Opinion

Enormous, heavy, and gloriously uninterested in corners. You bought it for the straight bits and the noise.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

16 model years on record, 1,825 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2010 (amount time). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • alternator 2011, 2014 peak 31.1% of that year's complaints
  • windows 2011, 2012 peak 12.3% of that year's complaints
  • deploy 2015, 2017 peak 7.9% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2023 2 recalls 164 complaints
  2. 2022 2 recalls 27 complaints
  3. 2021 2 recalls 19 complaints
  4. 2020 1 recall 20 complaints
  5. 2019 3 recalls 57 complaints
  6. 2018 4 recalls 74 complaints
  7. 2017 3 recalls 49 complaints
  8. 2016 2 recalls 78 complaints
  9. 2015 6 recalls 126 complaints
  10. 2014 5 recalls 146 complaints
  11. 2013 5 recalls 179 complaints
  12. 2012 6 recalls 253 complaints
  13. 2011 6 recalls 193 complaints
  14. 2010 amount time 298 complaints
  15. 2009 7 recalls 132 complaints
  16. 2008 3 recalls 10 complaints

What does a Dodge Challenger say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.