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2008 Dodge Avenger electrical system problems

220 complaints about electrical system have been filed for the 2008 Dodge Avenger, which is 18% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the most reported problem area for this model year.

At a glance

Complaints
220 18% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
91,000 miles 187 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
3 and 13
Injuries and deaths
1 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When electrical system problems show up

Electrical system complaints by mileage, 2008 Dodge Avenger Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 91,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 12 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 15 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 22 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 25 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 29 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 24 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 24 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 21 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 7 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 5 complaints 200k+ miles: 3 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 91,000 miles
Based on 187 complaints that include mileage. 26% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles12
20k to 40k miles15
40k to 60k miles22
60k to 80k miles25
80k to 100k miles29
100k to 120k miles24
120k to 140k miles24
140k to 160k miles21
160k to 180k miles7
180k to 200k miles5
200k+ miles3

What the data shows

Of the 187 electrical system complaints that report mileage, the median is about 91,000 miles, and 26% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 3 crashes, 13 fires, 1 injury.

What owners wrote

Wednesday october 10th 2018 approximately 10:30 a.m. I was on my way to smoothie kind in cooper city located inside of a plaza. As I turned into the parking spot with my foot already on the brake to slow down into said parking spot the vehicle accelerated on its own. I pumped the brakes once nothing stopped the vehicle and it went over the medium between parking spots and hit a unoccupied vehicle on the left front. Then stopped just before hitting a tree.

Reported at 189,000 miles, October 2018 CrashFire

I was driving home and the car bucked like it was going to stall, just then I lost my dashboard lights, car kept running but sluggish. Got home to see if anyone else had this problem and found out that there was a recall for this issue, exactly what had happened to me was described on chrysler's recall page. So I called chrysler and they told me it wasn't my model, yet everything I read, even on your page, says 2008 dodge avenger and the problems I know have are described to a tee.

Reported at 171,215 miles, February 2014

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