Stalling while driving on the 2011 Dodge Challenger
Only 5 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When stalling while driving gets reported
There are 5 reports of stalling while driving on the 2011 Dodge Challenger, 5 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 63,000 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Putting it right typically runs $300–$2,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 4 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2010, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2011 at 65,000 miles.
By volume the 2010 carries the most reports, with 21; the 2011 has 5. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
On the date stated above, while operating my vehicle the engine, ABS, airbag, and other lights begin to flash and beep and the engine stalled and cut off in mid traffic. I attempted to jump my battery off, but to no avail. I purchased a new battery and after driving approx. 15 miles and cut the engine off and immediately attempted to restart but it failed and after attempting to turn on the head light, open the trunk and let the windows up, I concluded that the new battery was now dead. Dodge has not acknowledge any problems or recalls for the alternator and I am outside of the factory warranty. I am very suspect that dodge know there is a problem because the part is not available through the normal autopart stores and the price through dealerships and upwards of $500 for the part and $300 for labor for a partthat should not fail this soon. *tr
Wife was driving into town from her sisters house and noticed ABS, traction control light and other lights begin to come on while she was driving. She began to notice a burning smell at around 40 MPH just before getting into town. When she parked the car at walmart she noticed all the lights flashing like a casino and the car would not start. She called me to come get her while she was in the store so I went and got her keys, gave her my truck to drive back to her sisters, and went to her vehicle which started up when I attempted to turn it on. As I was driving the car home I noticed a winding noise coming from the engine but that was the only thing I experienced while I was driving it. The next day I had my father come by so we could take his truck with us in case it malfunctioned again. As my father was driving the car into town to an auto part store the casino light show started up and the vehicle completely died while driving at 40 MPH so he had to coast it dangerously into a gas station parking lot, thankfully this didn't happen on the interstate going 70 with 18 wheelers around. I called a tow truck and had it towed to dodge…
The car died while driving down a city street losing all power and functionality. I recieved a safety recall notification for the alternator at the beginning of the month, I am assuming that is the issue.
Also reported on the 2011 Dodge Challenger
Alternator or charging system failure
Other electrical problem
No-start or intermittent start failure
Other engine problem
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Airbag inflator rupture
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 5 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 5 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does stalling while driving happen on the 2011 Dodge Challenger?
Across 5 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 65,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is stalling while driving on the 2011 Dodge Challenger?
5 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed