2018 Dodge Charger
This year drew an ordinary 232 complaints for a Dodge Charger — the model's median is 226. What they were about is the unusual part: 36.2% of them mention want, against 12.5% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Dodge Charger, which began in 2011. 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 | 232 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 226 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- want — 36.2% of this year's complaints, against 12.5% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: want, settings, keep, fob.
- radio — 33.2% of this year's complaints, against 11.5% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: radio, phone, randomly, clock.
- camera — 19% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the other years of this generation (3.8×). Owners wrote it as: camera, display, back camera, makes.
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
The touchscreen is delaminating and causing ghost touches which then causes a message to keep popping up asking: Do you want to adjust your clock settings? This message comes with a beeping noise and does not go away. It is very annoying and interferes with li…
The screen cover separates from the touch screen on the radio. This makes the radio not function but more importantly other vehicle operational features are inaccessible. Apparently the screen feels random touches so even when I power it down it turns itself b…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V512000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 18V280000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 18V332000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 18V281000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 18V524000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 24V198000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Dodge Charger 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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