2010 Dodge Charger
This year drew an ordinary 238 complaints for a Dodge Charger — the model's median is 226. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.1% of them mention exhaust, against 1.4% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Dodge Charger ran from 2006 to 2010, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 238 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 226 |
| Involving a crash | 14 |
| Involving a fire | 9 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- exhaust — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the other years of this generation (5×). Owners wrote it as: exhaust, odor, fumes, strong.
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
HE WAS TRAVELING AT AN UNKNOWN SPEED, COMING TO A COMPLETE STOP. WHILE SITTING STILL WITH THE VEHICLE IDLING, HE WOULD SMELL A STRONG ODOR OF FUEL AND EXHAUST FUMES EMITTING INSIDE OF THE VEHICLE. IN ADDITION, ON A DIFFERENT OCCASION THE ENGINE COMPLETELY STAL…
WHILE TRAVELING AT AN UNKNOWN SPEED AND APPROACHING A TRAFFIC STOP SIGNAL; HE STOPPED THE VEHICLE AND WITH THE ENGINE IDLING, A STRONG ODOR OF EXHAUST FUMES EMITTED INSIDE OF THE VEHICLE. ALSO, THE ENGINE COMPLETELY STALLED ON TWO DIFFERENT TIMES. THE VEHICLE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V018000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V021000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V352000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V313000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 10V200000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 09V420000 WHEELS 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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