Recall · 20V280000
Mitsubishi Motors North America recalled 2 models over seat belts
3,241
Vehicles covered
2
Models
3
Model years
May 18, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:REAR/OTHER
- The defect
- Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Outlander and 2019 Outlander PHEV vehicles. The seat belt for the right side second-row seat may have been assembled incorrectly.
- What it can cause
- An incorrectly assembled seat belt may not properly restrain the occupant, increasing the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- MMNA will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the right side second-row seat belt and replace it as necessary, free of charge. This recall began June 17, 2020. Owners may contact MMNA customer service at 1-888-648-7820. MMNA's number for this recall is SR-20-002.
- 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 3,241 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 71% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mitsubishi vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 2 times before this, most recently in November 2014 as 14V744000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 60 complaints with NHTSA, 8 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2018, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 26V252000 (structure), 25V507000 (structure), 20V403000 (seat belts).
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 20V280000. 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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