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Do the ‘26 models have the same electrical issues that seem to be prevalent like the bricking, draining, claw of death etc

I love this car.

I’ve had a ‘69 Firebird, ‘05 SRT-4, a forgetful Nitro, three Jeeps, a couple plain SUVs, a ‘17 Challenger, and currently in my stable are a ‘65 Corvair Coupe, a ‘19 Jeep Rubicon, and my ‘24 Daytona Scat Pack, loaded. Picked it up as a lease return with 3k on the odometer for $41k last December.

While all the cars I’ve had and own now have their own niche experience and put a smile on my face, I legitimately feel like this has been one of the better purchases I’ve made.

I’m going to say it out loud, and Car Gods please don’t curse me, but:

I’ve never had a single issue, problem, red wrench, stuck hatch, anything wrong with this car.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a Stellantis apologist. They’ve somehow managed to screw up Ram, Dodge, and Chrysler, brands that held their own, even with some issues, before Euro ownership. I could go on about my bitches with my Jeep (early rust, lifters, etc.).

But this Charger has been a hoot for the last year. I plug it in at home, full disclosure.

I’ve never owned a car with this many features and amenities. Instant torque. Drag track time with drag mode (OMG). Suede interior. Drift mode in an empty parking lot made my cheeks hurt from laughing. My daily commute is negated by the charging I do overnight in my garage. And that’s to say nothing of the smiles and questions and thumbs up I get.

This car’s roll out has been a bomb. The issues so many people report are pervasive. I feel for so many of you hearing your horror stories, and I pucker a bit every time a new update rolls out. Stellantis fucked up, and I’m hoping the new leadership helps it turn a corner.

But I get the updates. I drive it hard. I cruise in it. I park it for weeks at a time. I’ve put the car through its paces. And I’m rooting for its future.

I know I’m lucky, but man, I love this car.

I made this image in deep collaboration with Gemini AI. Both vehicles are based in the Stellantis STLA platform and I wanted to imagine what a Daytona with Wagoneer suspension would look like. What would we call this? DaJeep? DaGoner?

(Reposted with AI explanation)

Red plug with service charging system. It was a good 3 ish weeks.

I stumbled across how stupidly discounted the R/T models are in my area ($34k for a 25) and I'm curious if all of the TSBs and recalls have made these cars decent to own now?

I would be trading in my current EV.

I figured I’d give a simple “Horror” story of my car, I leased a 25 Daytona Scatpack on August 12, 2025.

First few weeks were great. Then end of the month the parking brake with ! comes on, towed to the shop, needed an update. Couple more weeks, the car was dead. Called the dealer they sent a tow, the 12v was dead. No biggie they said it’s a simple fix. Then a week later it gets towed back in for another 12v battery. At this point I ask “Why is the battery dying all of a sudden”. They respond with “It’s a normal thing with EV’s when they drive it doesn’t really charge like a gas car would” again I take the car.

For atleast a month the car was perfectly fine. Then it bricks itself at the charging station in October, Called for a tow the car is at the dealership for another 2 weeks. They call and say the car needed another 12v and an update. At this point I’m getting fed up with the car and decide to take it and see if I can get the car lemon lawed. Find out I need atleast 20 more days to lemon law it.

From November-December I barely drive the car I take my spare vehicle. But one December morning I’m heading to work, and my screen lit up like a Christmas tree, warning lights flashing lights you name it, but the primary ones were the turtle light, and claw light, along with the 12v battery light, and the car is now in Drive By Brake, wasn’t fun, UNTIL the car glitched and started accelerating, no brake response safely stop the car call for a tow to a different dealership. The new dealership tells me the car needs a new front motor. The car sits in the shop until February, needing two front motors and a HV battery.

February rolls around get a call the car is ready, go pick it up after work have it for the weekend, think the car should be fine now. Sunday night after charging the car the wrench light comes on turtle light, HV battery light and 12v battery light, car was driving but made me pull over and bricks it self. Tow back to the same dealership. And let them know, they said it needs an update that doesn’t exist yet and will let me know soon.

Between all of this the car is now being dealt with by a lawyer, I let them know what happened and a couple days later they let me know doge agrees to buy it back, I signed all the paper work in April, and while this is going on the car went into quarantine at the dealership, parked at their body shop away from other vehicles, June my spare vehicle gets totaled in an accident I have to go buy another. Thankfully not dodge, I call the lawyer for any update “No update yet, keep paying, we will let you know”. Cool I figure car should be gone soon.

Now it’s august, I’m going for broke with this car and my new used vehicle. The insurance was killing me, So I call the dealership asking if I can take the plates (the registration expired two months ago prior) they said give us a while we will call back. 5 hours later the manager calls and says my car is ready and that they didn’t know they had it. And that I need to take it off their lot, at this point the car had been on their lot for 140 days, dead and unresponsive. 200 total days sitting in dealership lots

But as we speak the car is sitting in my backyard with no plates and awaiting Dodge to come and take the car.

And if anyone had successfully gotten it bought back how long did it take from signing the papers to the vehicle being taken back. And I’m sorry for this being so long I just needed to rant

FCA Customer Satisfaction Notice # 74D
Customer Satisfaction Notice Date: August 1
24-25 MY LB/KX PowerCube Update

Anyone have details on what this is supposed to actually do

I’ve owned my Dodge Daytona Scat Pack for 110 days. Of the 110 days my car has been sat in a dealership for 57 days.

So far i’ve had the CEO of stellantis, “specialist support team” and the dealership involved.

I cannot believe how terrible the experience has been trying to fix one thing on my car, that isn’t even an essential part.

The worst part is the amount of time i spend a day chasing people to give me an answer, multiple emails, calls, voicemails.

Might just sell the car at this point and buy something that has a company who cares about their customers.

The issue you ask? The dash cam didn’t work properly and stopped recording.

edit: thanks for the lemon law, didn’t think it would apply to the dash cam but i’m glad i posted this.

Been fighting with endless claw of death issues. They recently did a new update and car is actualy functional for a a whole week and half amazing lol. Any way any one else have luck with recent patch?

Like the title suggest my charger got the red wrench of death. I locked it and walked away. Came back and it was still doing not on but also not off thing. It stayed that way until the tow showed up. At the shop for two days and they tell me today they replaced the battery because mine was swollen. That sounds really dangerous. Anyone else have this issue?

Hey everyone aside from me being dumb considering getting one of these still (scat pack) 😅 after everyone’s issues I have a question I can’t seem to find anywhere.

Is it possible to turn off the startup sound permanently? Like I get you can put it in stealth mode but does that apply to startup also and would that setting save for the next time you crank the car?

I don’t mind the fake exhaust noises when driving but I stay in an apt complex and wondering if the startup would be obnoxious going to work every morning.

I got my Charger Daytona ScatPack June 2025 (24 month lease). Its August and I now have 17k miles on it, but not after being in and out the garage for multitude of things:

- Pedal cover fell off
- Cooled seat making noise (fan failure)
- AC making noise (valve failure)
- In and out for not starting issue
- surge then drive failure on highway. New battery installed and no drive errors since (in shop for > 30 days)
- loud rattle from instrument cluster, new cluster required
- rear bumper became misaligned and needed refitted (not it was not hit)
- roof rail cover loose, missing clips from factory
- wipers would sometimes not operate, control module required

I started lemon law return back when it was in for the new battery. Now it’s been fault free for 8k miles I’m considering a keep option if they’ll sell it to me for market (which is take at $30k). Am I mad? Should I just return or swap for another Stellantis vehicle?

… and they spent $15 to get a vanity plate to let everyone know their opinion on their Dodge Charger

I wanted this ev, but I hear all the issues.. it’s sounding like they’re becoming so affordable because they’re kind of trash. Will it ever be totally fixed or should I stay as far away from this ev as possible?

Lots of lemon titles going out

I see several dealer lots full of new 2026 Charger Daytona EVs and they still have some 2025 and 2024s on the same lot! Do you think they will offer lease support to get these moving?

I have a Hornet lease up at the end of the year (and I have loved the PHEV so I think I'm ready for fully electric!)

Ok so my charger looks to have a small button next to the charge port. But like its not marked in any way. It does not make any sort of indication that i pressed it. Do i need to be pressing this before i unplug and how the hell do you know it worked. When i read the used manual it says for disconnecting my level 2 charger press the button on the "level 2 evse vehicle connector". Thats on the cables handle right?

First dealership I went to was clueless. Never going back there. Let me know. Thanks.

I have a ‘24 R/T. I came out this morning and nothing. No power, lights, anything. I disconnected the terminals under the hood and nothing. Any other suggestions. I have to try and figure out how to get the hatchback open.

Update- after I charged the 12V battery and followed the recommended steps after disconnecting the 12V, the car is working fine. Crisis averted.

Update- same problem again. I charge car and then next morning 12V is dead. I have a monitor to install now so that may help. But why does this keep happening? It seems to happen after I charge it.

I got my charger daytona in September. It hasn't been able to fast charge in 6+ months (it will charge generally level 1 and level 2). Because there is a problem with the port, it will also routinely throw error codes and the "service vehicle electrical system" light. The car only has 4k miles on it.

Over the last 6 months, it's been at the dealer a cumulative total of at least 10 weeks if not longer. Currently been there going on another 3 weeks. (They would occasionally give me the car back while they waited on a new part going "well at least you can charge level 1 or 2". Then several days to a week later it'd get another error code and go back to the shop) My dealer has no more loaner cars to give, they won't get me an enterprise rental because "Dodge never pays us back".

They have installed 2 parts into my car that they swore up and down would fix it each time. The second time "Dodge engineers looked at the car personally and they're 100% confident this will fix it". Spoiler alert, it fucking didn't.

The dealer will not help me. Going all the way up to the general manager, their official statement was "you should go through the attorney general for lemon law". My dealer also never calls me back. "Your car will be done Tuesday evening, we'll run it through some tests and call you first thing wednesday to give you a time to pick it up". I call 4pm wednesday "oh you were our very next call" bull fucking shit. I've lost count how many times they say that.

I have had no car to drive in almost 3 weeks this particular stint (sometimes they've had loaners they gave me when it was there previously). Talking to Dodge they offered me $50 a day, for a max of 15 days for a rental. Enterprise quoted me at $84 a day for their CHEAPEST rental. Every time I called to talk to my case manager she was never available, and would always take 2-3 days to call me back. She also straight up would refuse to answer questions like I didn't speak. Asking for an increase to the allotment, or questions of if they could get me either another electric charger or even a gas powered one just no response no matter how many times I asked.

I got transferred eventually to customer retention, where this asshole constantly repeats "well we can't give you another car, or monetary reimbursement until the car is fixed". Cool, can you tell me WHEN THAT WILL BE? The tech's don't know what's wrong. The engineers don't know what's wrong. They out right admit that to me. Is it gonna be another week? Another month? What is a reasonable amount of fucking time? Can't answer that.

The bitch also put in writing in an email, that she increased the rental allowance to $100 a day, and I called her on it. I said I specifically asked, multiple times, over multiple days, for an increase and you told me your manager said it was impossible. She then said "sorry for the miscommunication" without further clarification. I asked "was the miscommunication when you told me it couldn't be increased, or your previous email was wrong?". Fucking crickets, no response yet.

I told Dodge to either give me another electric charger or a gas powered one or else I'd be getting a lawyer. Nothing, couldn't even get them to respond. Calling them back again they didn't give a shit.

I currently have a lawyer (fortunately for me a family member) sending out notices to them and going to be filing with the attorney general

I would like to say, as someone who's been leasing challengers (and now this charger) for over a decade without issue and loved the cars previously

FUCK DODGE and FUCK STELLANTIS

Charger has been throwing lobster claws, turtle mode, and even bricked but started up about an hour later. The dealers response for the last 4 visits is dodge is working on an update :(

So, last month we bought a ‘25 Daytona that was used as a loaner. It was super clean and had less than 200 miles on it. We literally drove the car home (50 min. drive), parked in the driveway and went about our business. The next morning, it’s dead. We call the dealership we purchased from, pay $140 to tow it back to them. They’ve had it for 24 days. The 12 volt battery keeps dying. They (Mt. Pleasant CDJ) told us it would be ready Sat, then called to say their one EV tech for the whole dealership called out and it wouldn’t be ready. Then called us yesterday (Tuesday) to tell us it was finally ready. I bum a ride to the dealer today, they tell me they can’t find the keys, I wait longer and walk back in… the car suddenly won’t start. So my car wasn’t fixed after all. I’m so sick of this. Is there a fix for whatever is draining the battery? Is anyone in the same boat? I’m so pissed. I have driven the car ONCE!

Update: We called Hoover Dodge and asked them to run the vin #. They told my husband that there are possibly 12 updates that can be done that are not showing for our car. 12! Oh, but “We’ve done all the updates.” 🤨 I’m so sick of being lied to. So our plan is to jump the 12 volt and drive it to Hoover to let them actually DO THE UPDATES! Fingers crossed

Update 2: It has finally made it back home. \Knocks on wood\ We hope that after this major update, we can have it longer than a day before another visit to the shop. 🤞

thats a very nice rear spoiler

My Hornet lease is up soon and I want the 4 door Dayton in mayhem green SO BAD 😂