Dodge Recalls All Demon 170 Muscle Cars

If you or someone you know owns a Dodge Challenger Demon 170, listen up. Each and everyone last one has been recalled recently for a problem you probably haven’t heard about. But you’d know if it strikes your muscle car because it results in a sudden loss of power, misfiring, etc.

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That’s disappointing for anyone who paid a premium to get the Demon 170 since it’s first and foremost a powerhouse. In the past, Dodge has instructed dealer service departments to re-gap all the spark plugs on any vehicle that’s experiencing these problems, as revealed by YouTuber Butter Da Insider.

After almost a year of telling service departments to re-gap spark plugs, now Dodge is issuing a recall for the Demon 170. It’s directing dealers to just replace all the spark plugs in every last one of the high-powered muscle cars.

As part of the free recall work, Dodge is providing dealers with repair kits that contain the new spark plugs gapped at the correct spec. In the recall, the automaker says the factory plugs might have bee gapped too high, causing misfires.

In some cases, the Demon 170’s check engine light has illuminated thanks to this spark plug issue. That’s usually a stressful thing to see, especially on a high-performance cars.

Also, in some limited instances some spark plugs were seized inside Demo 170 engines. If a dealership charged a customer to free those plugs, Dodge is willing to refund that money to the owner, says Butter Da Insider. That’s a nice gesture since some automakers won’t go back and refund work performed thanks to something that was later recalled, even though they should.

It’s crazy to think Dodge has to replace all 16 spark plugs in every single Demon 170 ever made, which is over 3,000 cars. But that’s better than the company just acting like everything is fine and letting owners deal with misfires and figuring out the fix themselves.

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