Recall · 20V403000
Mitsubishi Motors North America recalled 2 models over seat belts
177,000
Vehicles covered
2
Models
8
Model years
July 13, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS: REAR/OTHER:BUCKLE ASSEMBLY
- The defect
- Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) is recalling certain 2014-2019 Outlander and 2018-2019 Outlander PHEV vehicles. The second-row center seat belt buckle may interfere with the right-side seat belt buckle when the seat backs are folded down. The interference may cause the right-side seat belt buckle cover to come off, making the buckle latch inoperable and unable to restrain an occupant.
- What it can cause
- An unrestrained occupant has an increased risk of injury in the event of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- MMNA will notify owners, and dealers will modify the second-row center seat belt buckle cover, install a new warning label to the second-row seat support base, and provide a new warning label insert for the owner's manual, free of charge. The recall began September 1, 2020. Owners may contact MMNA customer service at 1-888-648-7820. Mitsubishi's number for this recall is SR-20-004.
- 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 177,000 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 2014 to 2019, so the oldest vehicles on it were 6 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mitsubishi vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 3 times before this, most recently in May 2020 as 20V280000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 7 of the 8 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 390 complaints with NHTSA, 211 of them before this campaign was filed. 17 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 June 2013, 7 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 26V252000 (structure), 25V507000 (structure), 20V741000 (parking brake), 20V280000 (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 July 13, 2020 as campaign 20V403000. 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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