Recall Register

Champion Challenger: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 34 recall campaigns for the Champion Challenger, model years 1997 to 2024. NHTSA has 2 complaints on file for this model line. 20 of the 25 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19971
  2. 19981
  3. 19992
  4. 20003
  5. 20013
  6. 20023
  7. 20032
  8. 20043
  9. 20058
  10. 20069
  11. 20079
  12. 200810
  13. 200911
  14. 20108
  15. 20114
  16. 20125
  17. 20137
  18. 20146
  19. 20154
  20. 20162
  21. 20172
  22. 20182
  23. 20191
  24. 20231
  25. 20241
Champion Challenger: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2024 Champion Challenger NHTSA page100%3,680
2023 Champion Challenger NHTSA page100%3,680
2019 Champion Challenger NHTSA page100%362
2018 Champion Challenger200%295
2017 Champion Challenger200%295
2016 Champion Challenger200%224
2015 Champion Challenger400%3,543
2014 Champion Challenger611250%5,545
2013 Champion Challenger700%5,479
2012 Champion Challenger511250%3,632
2011 Champion Challenger400%3,614
2010 Champion Challenger800%5,627
2009 Champion Challenger1100%5,893
2008 Champion Challenger1000%5,638
2007 Champion Challenger900%5,054
2006 Champion Challenger900%3,923
2005 Champion Challenger800%1,657
2004 Champion Challenger300%1,858
2003 Champion Challenger200%1,783
2002 Champion Challenger300%1,844
2001 Champion Challenger300%2,382
2000 Champion Challenger300%2,382
1999 Champion Challenger200%603
1998 Champion Challenger NHTSA page100%4
1997 Champion Challenger NHTSA page100%4

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

3 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Champion Challenger: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine333.31
Service Brakes333.31
Steering333.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Champion Challenger, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2010, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Champion Challenger, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 2 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Champion: all 23 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Champion Challenger: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/champion/challenger/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
CHAMPION BUS, INC.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Champion Challenger model years have the most recall campaigns?
2009 with 11, 2008 with 10, 2007 with 9. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Champion Challenger model year has the most complaints?
The 2012 model year, with 1 of the 2 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Champion Challenger name?
Engine: 1 component mention. Service Brakes: 1 component mention. Steering: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Champion Challenger?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.