Recall Register

2008 Dodge Caliber: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2008 Dodge Caliber. NHTSA has 360 complaints on file for this model year.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2008 Dodge Caliber. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 360 complaints for it.

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

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

Complaints by component

360 complaints, 570 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.

  • 2008 Dodge Caliber
  • All 2008 vehicles
2008 Dodge Caliber: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2008 CaliberAll 2008 vehiclesCaliber, all yearsMentions
Suspension198.231.7170.3113
Structure154.448.4114.888
Electrical System103.5140.6119.259
Engine75.4676043
Power Train66.773.575.738
Steering61.483.559.335
Unknown or Other49.141.851.428
Vehicle Speed Control47.439.664.427
Air Bags40.4156.255.823
Wheels28.110.918.516

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 27.

Complaints that report a crash
21
Complaints that report a fire
4
Injuries in the complaints
14
Deaths in the complaints
2
Date of the newest complaint
2 Aug 2023

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 2008 Dodge Caliber, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2016, with 60 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

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

  1. 20060
  2. 20074
  3. 20080
  4. 20091
  5. 20102
  6. 20112
  7. 20121

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2008 Dodge Caliber: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/dodge/caliber/2008/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
Chrysler (FCA US LLC)

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Dodge Caliber have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the Dodge Caliber, model years 2006 to 2012. None of them names the 2008 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2008 Dodge Caliber name most often?
Suspension: 113 of 570 component mentions, or 198.2 per 1,000. For all 2008 vehicles the figure is 31.7 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2008 Dodge Caliber open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.