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You know what they say: the first year of
production of a new model comes with a tone of incommodities that plague its arrival to the market. Take the Cybertruck, for instance, with all the recalls and the time owners spent in service shops trying to fix pillar trims that came off, tonneau covers that did not close properly, load beds that leaked, and so on.
It seems that the all-new Dodge Charger Daytona is not going to be spared all the trouble that the first-production year models come with. The EVs have started arriving in dealerships. TK of TK's Garage quotes insiders when saying that they are bricking. The car rebuild expert claims he got information from dealers that told him the
Charger Daytona is becoming an unmitigated disaster.
He was informed by four dealership employees from four different areas of the country that they had received the
Charger Daytonas, and that they were dead the following day. He also got photos of the models on the lift. Some of the brand-new models supposedly require a battery replacement. The operation will be carried out under warranty.
TK was told that three other cars from three other dealerships had the exact same problems. "
5 miles. After placing [them] into ship mode, they're having issues, perform 4 critical flashes," read one of the messages that TK received.
The dealers can't sell or deliver the cars if they can't get them to move, so for the moment. They are currently just showroom exhibits. A customer with whom TK has been keeping in touch couldn't wait to get delivery of his brand-new Dodge Charger Daytona. He was supposed to go pick up his EV when the dealer called him and told him he wouldn't be getting his car that day.
Earlier this month, another YouTuber expressed skepticism at the model's reliability and compassion for the customers and called the deliveries "a fiasco." He photographed "thousands" of them sitting in a parking lot, waiting to get updates that are supposed to make them functional.
Furthermore, one of the cars used for the media event, which took place at the Radford Racing School last month, reportedly sustained an electronic malfunction during the test drive. However, such things do happen during media events, especially when automakers sometimes use pre-production models.
At first, Dodge reportedly thought that it was a software-related issue, which delayed the arrival of the EVs in dealerships. TK anticipates that Dodge is going to get a metaphorical "black eye." For the moment, the automaker is advertising the Charger Daytona as the world's most powerful muscle car.
