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2008 Dodge Caliber body & structure problems

88 complaints about body & structure have been filed for the 2008 Dodge Caliber, which is 15% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the 2nd most reported problem area for this model year.

At a glance

Complaints
88 15% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
107,000 miles 73 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
3 and 0
Injuries and deaths
2 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When body & structure problems show up

Body & structure complaints by mileage, 2008 Dodge Caliber Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 107,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 2 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 1 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 7 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 7 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 13 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 17 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 7 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 7 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 7 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 5 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 107,000 miles
Based on 73 complaints that include mileage. 14% 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 miles2
20k to 40k miles1
40k to 60k miles7
60k to 80k miles7
80k to 100k miles13
100k to 120k miles17
120k to 140k miles7
140k to 160k miles7
160k to 180k miles7
180k to 200k miles5
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 73 body & structure complaints that report mileage, the median is about 107,000 miles, and 14% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 3 crashes, 2 injuries.

What owners wrote

Traveling on highway in winter road conditions. Driver lost control on black ice. Hit highway guardrail head on, then on the pax front side, then on driver front side. Major damage to front costing approx $6000.00 in damage. Air bag did not deploy even thought lights on dash were activated as deployed. With seat belt on passenger was thrown forward hitting steering wheel and knees to lower dashboard. Sever concussion as result, bruising and soreness.

Reported at 68,000 miles, January 2014 CrashInjury

Driving and steering got lose.pulled into work and was turning the wheel heard crunching nose.got out at looked steering gear box was moving on frame and all kinds of rust was falling off.I have taken my car to chrysler dealer ship and waiting on to see if the subframe being rusted out is covered in any way.this seems to be a consistent problem with this car. This car is driven about 24 miles a day and keeped in a garage and washed.this was a problem in 2007 model dodge calibers.

Reported at 87,000 miles, October 2016

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