Vehicle
Dodge Charger
The rear-driven saloon, and the most-modified mainstream car in the American catalogue after the Wrangler. Its Pentastar V6 and Hemi V8 are well documented, but a stored knock, fuel-trim or misfire code is worth reading alongside what has been changed — the corpus describes a standard vehicle, and a supercharged or retuned one is a different machine.
Generations
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LX 2005–2010
The first modern generation; 2.7 and 3.5 V6, 5.7 Hemi.
- Body styles
- Sedan
- Platform
- Chrysler LX
- Engines
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- 2.7 V6 — petrol
- 3.5 V6 — petrol
- 5.7 V8 — HEMI · petrol
- 6.1 Hemi V8 — SRT8 · petrol
- Transmissions
- 4-speed 42RLE automatic · 5-speed W5A580 automatic
- Drivetrain
- Rear-wheel drive · Four-wheel drive
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LD 2011–present
Pentastar V6 and the ZF eight-speed at volume; a very long production run.
- Body styles
- Sedan
- Platform
- Chrysler LD
- Engines
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- 3.6 V6 — PENTASTAR · petrol
- 5.7 V8 — HEMI · petrol
- 6.4 V8 — HEMI · petrol · SRT 392
- 6.2 supercharged V8 Hellcat — HEMI · petrol
- Transmissions
- 5-speed W5A580 automatic · 8-speed 845RE automatic · 8-speed 850RE automatic · 8-speed 8HP70 automatic · 8-speed 8HP90 automatic
- Drivetrain
- Rear-wheel drive · Four-wheel drive
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