2019 Dodge Charger
This year drew an ordinary 226 complaints for a Dodge Charger — the model's median is 232. What they were about is the unusual part: 29.6% of them mention made aware, against 9.1% 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 | 226 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 232 |
| Involving a crash | 14 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- made aware — 29.6% of this year's complaints, against 9.1% across the other years of this generation (3.3×).
- manufacturer made — 28.8% of this year's complaints, against 8.9% across the other years of this generation (3.2×).
- airbags — 24.8% of this year's complaints, against 9.5% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: airbags, deployed, shrapnel, regards.
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
I was in a car accident where i hydroplaned through 3 lanes of traffic on the highway and spun out of control and smashed into a median wall which effectively cause my car to be totaled. On my dashboard it was giving warning signs the airbag was deployed and m…
I was in an accident. The other car hit me at least going 60 mph into my drivers door. NONE of my airbags deployed in the accident. My car could not move and was totaled from the accident. I was injured with a TBI from the car accident. I received no help from…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V512000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 19V203000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 19V758000 SERVICE BRAKES Fixed free of charge.
- 19V246000 AIR BAGS 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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