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Dodge Charger 2010

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

0.56 per 1,000

1.3 times this nameplate’s own median · from 38 complaints filed in the first three years, of 238 ever. 95% lower bound 0.38.

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 76 complaints

alternator	15	20%
win	10	14%

Air Bags 60 complaints

campaign	35	58%
part	32	53%
notification	32	53%
campaign air	32	53%
reasonable	31	52%
notification campaign	31	52%

Engine 50 complaints

noise

21%

When it breaks

20% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 78,000 miles, from 156 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

1 investigation covering this model year, 0 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:

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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.