No-start or intermittent start failure on the 2007 Dodge Charger
When no-start or intermittent start failure gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Dodge Charger report no-start or intermittent start failure at a median of 115,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 60,000 miles and a quarter after 180,000 miles, from 8 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 13th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 25,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 195,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 168,614 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
25% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25,808 miles | 58,931 miles | 116,000 miles | 181,936 miles | 194,422 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 $200–$1,800 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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 10 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2014, at a median of 45,000 miles, and latest on the 2010 at 125,000 miles.
By volume the 2008 carries the most reports, with 102; the 2007 has 10. 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.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 dodge charger. The contact stated that the vehicle would not start. The gaskets were replaced and new tires were installed on may 1, 2009. The alarm indicator was the only gauge he remembered illuminating on the instrument panel. The vehicle has not been taken to the dealer. The current and failure mileages were 34,725.
Tl* the contact owns a 2007 dodge charger. The contact stated that the vehicle failed to start while in park and the key could not be inserted into the ignition. The vehicle could be started however, when placed in neutral. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The dealer confirmed that the gear shifter assembly needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was contacted and confirmed that the VIN was not included in NHTSA campaign id number: 08v583000 (power train: automatic transmission: lever and linkage: column shift). The vehicle was repaired. The failure mileage was 67,000 and the current mileage was 67,775.
Within a year or so of first purchasing the car (2007) I noticed it would feel like someone hit me from behind as I got off the interstate and was waiting for a light. I have since learned this was the engine "bumping" to keep it from stalling. I would either give it gas or put it in neutral and it would be ok. Within the last year the car has actually stalled on me at the lights. I noticed this mostly after driving on the interstate at 70-75 MPH for my 20 min drive to work and as I slowing down to get off the exit it seems to "bump" and now "stall". I have had the car stall three times in a row on a single instance recently with the third time it finally caught and did not stall, but I feared it would not start at all. I have had an instance recently of the car stalling while at low speeds (10-20 MPH) as I'm slowing down. All other times were at an actual stop. Recently the car stalled and it took 2 times to get it to restart and when it restarted it would not immediately go into gear, even though the car was in "drive". My husband was driving for this time and although I am primary driver, he has experienced the "bumps" over the…
Also reported on the 2007 Dodge Charger
Other powertrain problem
Shifter, linkage or stuck-in-park failure
Other engine problem
Radiator or coolant leak
Airbag inflator rupture
Other electrical problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 10 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 no-start or intermittent start failure happen on the 2007 Dodge Charger?
Across 8 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 115,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 60,000 miles and a quarter after 180,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is no-start or intermittent start failure on the 2007 Dodge Charger?
10 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 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