2015 Dodge Charger
This year drew an ordinary 270 complaints for a Dodge Charger — the model's median is 226. What they were about is the unusual part: 11.1% of them mention shaft, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Dodge Charger, which began in 2011. 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 | 270 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 226 |
| Involving a crash | 20 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 8 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- shaft — 11.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation (5×). Owners wrote it as: shaft, drive shaft, bearing, drive car.
- how — 14.1% of this year's complaints, against 5.2% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: how, car only, isn, carrier.
- matter — 8.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: matter, cold, great, car cold.
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 center Carrier support bearing is defective. As I look online on how to repair it I see NUMEROUS occasions of this happening in similar cars as mine. This part allows the drive shaft to not move up and down. When the center support bearing is defective and…
At about 30 mph I began hearing a clicking noise coming from the underneath of the car. No sensor/warning lights on, car was placed on a computer and nothing showed wrong. The noise continued to get louder and then there was a vibration from the front end. Upo…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V018000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18E053000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 18V332000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 18V281000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 17V097000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 15V114000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 15V461000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 16V043000 STRUCTURE 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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