NHTSA Safety Recalls
2008 Dodge Charger Recalls
The 2008 Dodge Charger has 5 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on May 24, 2016.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2008 Dodge Charger. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 5
- Owner complaints
- 609
- Crashes reported
- 24
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
22 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2008 Dodge Charger, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
5 recalls on the 2008 Dodge Charger
Air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 16V352000
- Reported
- May 24, 2016
- Vehicles affected
- up to 4,648,270
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury and death
- NHTSA advisory
- do not drive until repaired
- Same campaign
- also 2006–2007, 2009–2012 Charger, 13 other models
Air bags: frontal: driver side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 15V313000
- Reported
- May 26, 2015
- Vehicles affected
- up to 4,077,169
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash, injury and death
- NHTSA advisory
- do not drive until repaired
- Same campaign
- also 2006–2007, 2009–2010 Charger, 12 other models
Electrical system: ignition
- Campaign
- 14V567000
- Reported
- September 17, 2014
- Vehicles affected
- up to 292,798
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 4 other models
Power train: automatic transmission: lever and linkage: column shift
- Campaign
- 08V583000
- Reported
- November 6, 2008
- Vehicles affected
- up to 20,283
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2006–2007, 2009 Charger, 1 other model
Power train: axle hubs
- Campaign
- 08V295000
- Reported
- July 2, 2008
- Vehicles affected
- up to 5,509
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2 other models
2008 Dodge Charger complaints by year
NHTSA has received 609 owner complaints about the 2008 Dodge Charger, the newest on May 10, 2026. Of these, 24 describe a crash (4%) and 22 a fire; owners reported 23 injuries.
In complaints about the 2008 Dodge Charger, the component group named most often is the electrical system (64%), followed by the air bags (20%) and the engine (15%).
1 of the 2008 Dodge Charger's 5 recalls also concerns the electrical system.
Where 2008 Dodge Charger owners gave the mileage (393 complaints), the median was 91,147 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Electrical System391
- Air Bags124
- Engine89
- Power Train33
- Steering30
- Unknown Or Other28
Complaints received, by year
| 2007 | 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | |
| 2009 | 12 | |
| 2010 | 13 | |
| 2011 | 16 | |
| 2012 | 9 | |
| 2013 | 37 | |
| 2014 | 46 | |
| 2015 | 287 | |
| 2016 | 81 | |
| 2017 | 35 | |
| 2018 | 18 | |
| 2019 | 20 | |
| 2020 | 12 | |
| 2021 | 3 | |
| 2022 | 6 | |
| 2023 | 3 | |
| 2025 | 3 | |
| 2026 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2008 Dodge Charger peaked in 2015, when NHTSA received 287. 8% arrived between 2007 and 2011, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2008 vehicles, the 2008 Dodge Charger drew 0.9× the complaints of the median Dodge Charger year in the same window: 11th highest of the 16 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 5/5
- Side: 4/5
- Rollover: 4/5
The 609 complaints about the 2008 Dodge Charger are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Dodge Charger by model year
Other 2008 Dodge models
Newest record on this page: May 10, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted