2019 Dodge Challenger
This year drew an ordinary 57 complaints for a Dodge Challenger — the model's median is 126. What they were about is the unusual part: 19.3% of them mention wheel, against 5.3% across the model's other years.
Generation 1 of the Dodge Challenger, which began in 2008. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 57 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 126 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 18.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- wheel — 19.3% of this year's complaints, against 5.3% across the model's other years (3.6×).
- undisclosed — 7% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: undisclosed, driving undisclosed, undisclosed speed, prevention.
- night — 7% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the model's other years (2.9×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
while driving at an undisclosed speed, the headlights became inoperable. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer where it was diagnosed that the electrical box was melted. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufactur…
AFTER SHIFTING FROM REVERSE TO DRIVE, THE BACK OVER PREVENTION IMAGE REMAINED ON SCREEN FOR UP TO 10 SECONDS. THERE WAS NO WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED NOR REPAIRED. A DEALER WAS NOT CONTACTED. UPON INVESTIGATION, THE CONTACT ASSOCI…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V191000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 19V203000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 19V758000 SERVICE BRAKES Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Dodge Challenger was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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