Damon Challenger: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 18 recall campaigns for the Damon Challenger, model years 1991 to 2012. NHTSA has 33 complaints on file for this model line. 15 of the 19 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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 Damon Challenger NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 12,656 |
| 2011 Damon Challenger | 2 | 0 | 0% | 12,927 |
| 2010 Damon Challenger | 3 | 0 | 0% | 13,298 |
| 2009 Damon Challenger | 5 | 0 | 0% | 15,978 |
| 2008 Damon Challenger | 4 | 1 | 58% | 15,713 |
| 2007 Damon Challenger | 6 | 1 | 58% | 7,308 |
| 2006 Damon Challenger | 6 | 1 | 58% | 12,935 |
| 2005 Damon Challenger | 5 | 1 | 58% | 10,430 |
| 2004 Damon Challenger | 5 | 0 | 0% | 35,442 |
| 2003 Damon Challenger | 4 | 7 | 403% | 31,904 |
| 2002 Damon Challenger | 3 | 1 | 58% | 30,199 |
| 2001 Damon Challenger | 5 | 1 | 58% | 30,729 |
| 2000 Damon Challenger | 4 | 3 | 173% | 29,201 |
| 1999 Damon Challenger | 3 | 5 | 288% | 27,818 |
| 1998 Damon Challenger | 3 | 6 | 345% | 26,996 |
| 1997 Damon Challenger | 2 | 2 | 115% | 25,229 |
| 1996 Damon Challenger NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 58% | |
| 1994 Damon Challenger NHTSA page | 0 | 2 | 115% | |
| 1991 Damon Challenger NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 58% |
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
45 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Structure | 200 | 9 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 133.3 | 6 |
| Visibility | 88.9 | 4 |
| Seats | 66.7 | 3 |
| Equipment | 66.7 | 3 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 66.7 | 3 |
| Suspension | 66.7 | 3 |
| Unknown or Other | 66.7 | 3 |
| Fuel System, Gasoline | 44.4 | 2 |
| Power Train | 44.4 | 2 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Intruder15 campaigns
- Damon3 campaigns
- Daybreak15 campaigns
- Escaper12 campaigns
- Ultrasport8 campaigns
- Hornet3 campaigns
- Tuscany7 campaigns
- Outlaw6 campaigns
- Astoria8 campaigns
- Astoria Pacific4 campaigns
- Essence5 campaigns
- Avanti2 campaigns
- Astoria Waldorf2 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Damon Challenger: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/damon/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
- 29 Mar 2018
- Manufacturer in the recall file
- DAMON CORPORATION
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 Damon Challenger model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2007 with 6, 2006 with 6, 2009 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Damon Challenger model year has the most complaints?
- The 2003 model year, with 7 of the 33 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Damon Challenger name?
- Structure: 9 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 6 component mentions. Visibility: 4 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Damon Challenger?
- 1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.