Recall · 20V741000
Mitsubishi Motors North America recalled 2 models over parking brake
21,758
Vehicles covered
2
Models
2
Model years
November 30, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
PARKING BRAKE
- The defect
- Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) is recalling certain 2016 Outlander and Outlander Sport vehicles. The rust prevention coating on the rear brake operating shafts could have been peeled off during the assembly process. As a result, water entering the rear brake caliper boot may cause the parking brake operating shafts to corrode and possibly bind.
- What it can cause
- If the parking brake operating shafts bind, the parking brakes may not engage or disengage fully. If the parking brakes do not engage properly, the vehicle could rollaway, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- MMNA will notify owners, and dealers will replace the rear brake caliper assemblies, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed May 4, 2021. Owners may contact MMNA customer service at 1-888-648-7820. MMNA's number for this recall is SR-20-005.
- 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 21,758 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 84% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2016, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mitsubishi vehicles have been recalled over the parking brake 3 times before this, most recently in January 2018 as 18V070000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 169 complaints with NHTSA, 88 of them before this campaign was filed. 6 of those name the parking brake, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2016, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 26V252000 (structure), 25V507000 (structure), 20V403000 (seat belts), 20V279000 (structure).
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 November 30, 2020 as campaign 20V741000. 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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