Recall Register

Dodge Challenger: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 44 recall campaigns for the Dodge Challenger, model years 1970 to 2023. NHTSA has 1,091 complaints on file for this model line. 17 of the 22 model years have a page on this register.

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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. 19705
  2. 19713
  3. 19741
  4. 19781
  5. 19801
  6. 19810
  7. 20083
  8. 20097
  9. 20107
  10. 20116
  11. 20126
  12. 20135
  13. 20144
  14. 20155
  15. 20161
  16. 20173
  17. 20183
  18. 20193
  19. 20201
  20. 20212
  21. 20222
  22. 20232
Dodge Challenger: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2023 Dodge Challenger200%4,660
2022 Dodge Challenger200%96,552
2021 Dodge Challenger200%21,393
2020 Dodge Challenger NHTSA page100%21,258
2019 Dodge Challenger324%327,712
2018 Dodge Challenger31632%4,828,511
2017 Dodge Challenger3816%4,824,670
2016 Dodge Challenger13060%4,815,661
2015 Dodge Challenger566133%6,246,185
2014 Dodge Challenger489179%2,307,633
2013 Dodge Challenger5120242%2,622,745
2012 Dodge Challenger6214432%7,386,461
2011 Dodge Challenger6160323%7,386,461
2010 Dodge Challenger7263530%6,551,357
2009 Dodge Challenger7114230%5,146,165
2008 Dodge Challenger3816%4,743,366
1981 Dodge Challenger NHTSA page012%
1980 Dodge Challenger NHTSA page100%25,004
1978 Dodge Challenger NHTSA page100%15,000
1974 Dodge Challenger NHTSA page100%83
1971 Dodge Challenger300%6,214
1970 Dodge Challenger500%129,927

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

1,513 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.

Dodge Challenger: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System286.8434
Air Bags150227
Engine116.3176
Power Train74112
Steering61.593
Unknown or Other44.367
Service Brakes35.754
Engine and Engine Cooling30.446
Fuel/Propulsion System29.745
Vehicle Speed Control25.839

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Dodge Challenger, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2017, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Dodge Challenger, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2015, with 264 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Dodge: all 118 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Dodge Challenger: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/dodge/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
CHRYSLER 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 Dodge Challenger model years have the most recall campaigns?
2010 with 7, 2009 with 7, 2012 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Dodge Challenger model year has the most complaints?
The 2010 model year, with 263 of the 1,091 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Dodge Challenger name?
Electrical System: 286.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 150 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 116.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Dodge Challenger?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.