2008 Dodge Caliber — reported problems

CarFaultIQ holds 412 evidence records for the 2008 Dodge Caliber, drawn from official sources and owner complaints.

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 570 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

  • Suspension113 (19.8%)
  • Body & structure88 (15.4%)
  • Electrical system59 (10.4%)
  • Engine55 (9.6%)
  • Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)38 (6.7%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2009.
  • Steering35 (6.1%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2011.

Other / uncategorized: 28 classifications (4.9%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

  • Owner complaints (3,694 records, model years 2007–2012) are most frequently classified under: suspension, electrical system and body & structure.
  • Manufacturer communications (532 records, model years 2007–2012) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

  • 294reports included a mileage
  • 87,765average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

  1. 2007 946 records for 2007
  2. 2008 412 records for 2008
  3. 2009 269 records for 2009
  4. 2010 206 records for 2010
  5. 2011 256 records for 2011
  6. 2012 152 records for 2012

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

  • 21mention a crash
  • 4mention a fire
  • 14mention an injury
  • 2mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

  • Manufacturer communications NHTSA 51
  • Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 1
  • Owner complaints NHTSA 360

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Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.

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