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Dodge Charger 2016

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.47 per 1,000

1.1 times this nameplate’s own median · from 45 complaints filed in the first three years, of 182 ever. 95% lower bound 0.34.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.33	32
2009	0.29	23
2010	0.56	38
2011	1.29	94
2012	1.94	148
2013	1.04	94
2014	0.96	92
2015	0.30	28
2016	0.47	45
2017	0.33	30
2018	0.59	50
2019	0.44	39
2020	0.15	13
2021	0.14	11
2023	0.18	14

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Structure 53 complaints

panels	26	47%
door panels	25	46%
door panel	16	29%
door frame	13	24%
chrysler jeep	12	22%
jeep ram	11	21%

When it breaks

33% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 45,000 miles, from 107 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

1 investigation covering this model year, 0 of which list a recall campaign.

Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10821809 · 10850255 · 10863381 · 10892437 · 10903887 · 10917746

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.