2009 Dodge Charger
This year drew 175 complaints against a median of 232 across the Dodge Charger's other years, 0.8× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 6 recalls, listed below.
Generation 1 of the Dodge Charger, which began in 2006 and ran to 2010. 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 | 175 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 232 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 18V021000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V352000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V313000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 08V642000 TIRES
- 09V420000 WHEELS Fixed free of charge.
- 08V583000 POWER TRAIN
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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