Tire pressure monitor failure on the 2009 Dodge Charger
When tire pressure monitor failure gets reported
Owners of the 2009 Dodge Charger report tire pressure monitor failure at a median of 60,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 50,000 miles and a quarter after 70,000 miles, from 8 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 6th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 35,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 85,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 53,652 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
Reports bunched into a band this tight usually mean the component has a life of its own: it goes at roughly the same mileage regardless of who owns it.
13% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32,948 miles | 51,337 miles | 60,123 miles | 71,000 miles | 86,600 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 $80–$600 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 3 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2006, at a median of 1,300 miles, and latest on the 2007 at 140,000 miles.
By volume the 2009 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
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.
I own a 2009 dodge charger with tire pressure monitor valve stems and by putting chrome valve caps on them it caused the 2 back ones to adhere to the stems causing them to break. I was never told when I bought the car brand new I couldn't change valve caps by the dealer, in dodges manual,or in their warranty, only after the fact was I told by a dodge dealer that I wasn't suppose to dress up my car with chrome valve caps cause they cause problems with the valves rotting to the caps. Dodge wont fix it claiming its an aftermarket part,theirs nothing wrong with the aftermarket part only with their part,the front are fine with no adhesion what so ever. Dodge knows about this problem just check the internet with dodge customers complaining the same way. If I was told this or read it in their manual I would never put something in my car that would cost me 300 dollars in damages. All the new chargers have rubber valve stems nor TPMS stems cause dodge knew there was a problem. The have concealed this problem from their customers and now refuse to warranty it,their section in their owners manual about the TPMS valves states nothing about…
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 dodge charger. The contact stated that the tire pressure sensor repeatedly illuminated on the instrument panel. The vehicle was taken to two different independent repair shops and the contact was informed that the light would stop illuminating if she continued to drive the vehicle. The contact also stated that the vehicle was being examined for routine maintenance when she was informed that the tie rods needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The failures continued. The manufacturer was notified and offered no assistance. The failure mileage was 66,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 dodge charger. The contact stated that the tire pressure sensor repeatedly illuminated on the instrument panel. The vehicle was taken to two different independent repair shops and the contact was informed that the light would stop illuminating if she continued to drive the vehicle. The contact also stated that the vehicle was being examined for routine maintenance when she was informed that the tie rods needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The failures continued. The manufacturer was notified and offered no assistance. The failure mileage was 66,000.
Also reported on the 2009 Dodge Charger
Other electrical problem
Airbag inflator rupture
Other engine problem
Other wheel or tire problem
No-start or intermittent start failure
Other steering problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 9 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 tire pressure monitor failure happen on the 2009 Dodge Charger?
Across 8 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 60,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 50,000 miles and a quarter after 70,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is tire pressure monitor failure on the 2009 Dodge Charger?
9 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