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2006 DODGE CHARGER — Complaint #713766

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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE filed March 26, 2009

NHTSA complaint #713766 (ODI reference 10263192) concerns a 2006 DODGE CHARGER and was filed on March 26, 2009. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 27, 2008. The vehicle had 53,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same DODGE CHARGER cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:engine failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2006 DODGE CHARGER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2006 DODGE CHARGER
Component
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE
State
Illinois
Mileage
53,000 mi

Complaint Description

THE ENGINES' ROCKER ARMS & LIFTERS ARE TAPPING & CAUSING ENGINE TO STALL & CONSUME MORE GAS ALL BECAUSE THE CHRYSLER-DODGE DEALERSHIP HAVE BEEN REPLACING ONLY 5QTS OF OIL RATHER THAN THE 6QTS THE MANUAL INSTRUCTS. NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE BY THE DEALER TO CORRECT THIS MAINTENANCE ISSUE. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 713766
ODI Number 10263192
Date Filed March 26, 2009
Failure Date August 27, 2008
VIN 2B3KA43G56H

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.