Recall · 26V252000
Mitsubishi Motors North America recalled 2 models over structure
108,046
Vehicles covered
2
Models
12
Model years
April 20, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY:HATCHBACK/LIFTGATE:SUPPORT DEVICE/STRUT
- The defect
- Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) is recalling certain 2018-2022 Outlander PHEV and 2014-2020 Outlander vehicles. The liftgate gas spring cylinders may corrode and lose pressure, which can result in a gas spring cylinder rupture or the liftgate falling unexpectedly.
- What it can cause
- A gas spring cylinder rupture or a liftgate falling unexpectedly can increase the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- MMNA will replace the left and right liftgate gas springs, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 17, 2026. Owners may contact MMNA customer service at 1-888-648-7820. MMNA's number for this recall is SR-26-001. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov June 3, 2026. This recall expands previous NHTSA recall number 25V507.
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 108,046 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 92% 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 2022, 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 5 times before this, most recently in August 2025 as 25V507000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 8 of the 12 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 421 complaints with NHTSA, 413 of them before this campaign was filed. 33 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 June 2013, 12 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 25V507000 (structure), 20V741000 (parking brake), 20V403000 (seat belts), 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 April 20, 2026 as campaign 26V252000. 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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