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Dodge Charger 2008

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.33 per 1,000

0.7 times this nameplate’s own median · from 32 complaints filed in the first three years, of 623 ever. 95% lower bound 0.21.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.33	32
2009	0.29	23
2010	0.56	38
2011	1.29	94
2012	1.94	148
2013	1.04	94
2014	0.96	92
2015	0.30	28
2016	0.47	45
2017	0.33	30
2018	0.59	50
2019	0.44	39
2020	0.15	13
2021	0.14	11
2023	0.18	14

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Electrical System 397 complaints

unavailable exceeded	110	28%
numbers	63	16%
campaign numbers	62	16%
numbers electrical	46	12%
system air	45	11%
however parts	39	10%

Air Bags 124 complaints

electrical	57	46%
electrical system	55	44%
campaign numbers	55	44%
numbers	55	44%
numbers electrical	36	29%
system air	36	29%

Engine 94 complaints

radiator	24	26%
fan	23	25%
cooling fan	12	13%
campaign electrical	10	11%

When it breaks

11% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 91,818 miles, from 404 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

2 investigations covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign.

Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10211157 · 10224354 · 10230237 · 10234206 · 10238759 · 10244203

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.