Model years Mitsubishi Eclipse
2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse
Complaints about this year name stop far more often than the model's other years — 24% of them, about 61× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 99 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 8 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- clutch — 18.2% of this year's complaints, against 5.6% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: clutch, old, than 000, manual.
- mechanic — 19.2% of this year's complaints, against 7.1% across the model's other years (2.7×).
- previous — 6.1% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (30.3×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- brake pedal — 23% of complaints, 58× usual
- mechanic — 19% of complaints, 48× usual
- depressed — 16% of complaints, 40× usual
What owners wrote
WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 30 MPH, THE CONTACT DEPRESSED THE BRAKE PEDAL AND THE VEHICLE HESITATED TO STOP WITHOUT WARNING. THE FAILURE RECURRED ON ONE OTHER OCCASION. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHERE THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REP…
WHILE DRIVING 50 MPH, THE BRAKE PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED AND FAILED TO RESPOND. THE CONTACT HAD TO APPLY EXCESSIVE FORCE TO THE BRAKE PEDAL IN ORDER TO GET THE VEHICLE TO STOP. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC. THE MECHANIC DIAGNOSED THAT THE MASTER…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 05V247000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 05V299000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 15V337000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 08V454000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
How this was worked out
Every year of the Mitsubishi Eclipse was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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