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2017 Dodge Challenger

This year drew an ordinary 49 complaints for a Dodge Challenger — the model's median is 126. What they were about is the unusual part: 18.4% of them mention calls, against 6.3% 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.

What the complaints were about

• calls — 18.4% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: calls, myself, phone, phone calls.
• months after — 6.1% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (30.6×).
• deploying — 6.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.3% across the model's other years (18.2×). Owners wrote it as: deploying, deploying after, after passenger, side impact.

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 LCD of the uconnect control panel has progressively continued to delaminated since about 12-18 months after purchasing. Recently it has become a driving hazard. It presses the screen at random, which has changed the engine performance mode while driving an…

while driving 55 MPH, the radio operated independently by changing radio station, making phone calls, and the Navigation System became inoperable. The contact stated that failure occurred without warning. The vehicle was taken to a dealer however, the vehicle…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 18V332000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 17V496000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
• 17V431000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.

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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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