Model years to avoid

Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder

What it says about you

Opinion

The convertible one. Slower, heavier, and you did not care.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

8 model years on record, 155 complaints filed. That is too few to measure against. Every finding on this site compares a year with the same model's other years, and that needs about 40 complaints in a year and 4 years to compare it with. This nameplate has 1. So nothing is claimed either way — the recalls and ratings below are the record, and they are the whole record.

The years to look at closely: 2006 (eclipse contact). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

Every year

  1. 2012 0 recalls 8 complaints
  2. 2011 nothing on record 0 complaints
  3. 2010 0 recalls 1 complaints
  4. 2009 1 recall 7 complaints
  5. 2008 1 recall 16 complaints
  6. 2007 4 recalls 22 complaints
  7. 2006 eclipse contact 99 complaints
  8. 2005 2 recalls 2 complaints

What does a Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.