Model years Mitsubishi Eclipse
2007 Mitsubishi Eclipse
Complaints about this year name hydraulic however far more often than the model's other years — 28% of them, about 70× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 107 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 8 |
| Involving a crash | 15 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- within — 12.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the model's other years (4.3×). Owners wrote it as: within, took vehicle, sounds, slowly.
- crash — 13.1% of this year's complaints, against 4.8% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: crash, tread, purchased car, mitsubishi company.
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
- amount time — 27% of complaints, 68× usual
- time recall — 27% of complaints, 68× usual
- brake pedal — 24% of complaints, 61× usual
What owners wrote
THE BRAKE PEDAL FELT ABNORMAL WHEN DEPRESSED. THE CONTACT RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 15V337000 (SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC ) HOWEVER, THE PART TO DO THE REPAIR WAS UNAVAILABLE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE [VIN] EXCEEDED A REASONABLE AMOUNT…
WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 5 MPH, THE BRAKE PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED AND FAILED TO RESPOND WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A DEALER WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE ABS SYSTEM NEEDED TO BE FLUSHED AND THE BRAKE FLUID NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V337000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 08V454000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
- 06V334000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 06V414000 POWER TRAIN
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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