Recall · 20V279000
Mitsubishi Motors North America recalled 4 models over structure
141,200
Vehicles covered
4
Models
17
Model years
May 18, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:FRAME AND MEMBERS
- The defect
- Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) is recalling certain 2008-2010 Lancer, 2009-2010 Lancer Sportback, 2008-2013 Outlander, and 2011-2016 Outlander Sport vehicles originally sold in, or ever registered in, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The front lower control arms may detach due to the front cross member corroding from salt water exposure such as from road salt use.
- What it can cause
- A detached front control arm can result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- MMNA will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the front cross members. Depending on the level of existing corrosion, either a sealing/anti-corrosion agent will be applied or the front cross member will be replaced with a new one. These repairs will be performed free of charge. The recall began August 7, 2020. Owners may contact MMNA customer service at 1-888-648-7820. MMNA's number for this recall is SR-20-003.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 141,200 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 94% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2008 to 2016, so the oldest vehicles on it were 12 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mitsubishi vehicles have been recalled over the structure 2 times before this, most recently in December 2016 as 16V867000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 15 of the 17 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 845 complaints with NHTSA, 602 of them before this campaign was filed. 43 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2007, 12 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 21V144000 (suspension), 20V741000 (parking brake).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. with NHTSA on May 18, 2020 as campaign 20V279000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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