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2015 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport

Complaints about this year name transmission far more often than the model's other years — 45% of them, about 4× the usual rate of 12%.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• transmission — 44.8% of this year's complaints, against 13.8% across the model's other years (3.3×).
• hesitation — 11.6% of this year's complaints, against 0.7% across the model's other years (17×). Owners wrote it as: hesitation, experiencing.
• acceleration — 15.9% of this year's complaints, against 4.5% across the model's other years (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: acceleration, during acceleration, changes, something wrong.

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

• accelerate — 17% of complaints, 13× usual
• power train — 11% of complaints, 27× usual
• hesitation — 9% of complaints, 23× usual

What owners wrote

while driving approximately 60 MPH, the gear independently shifted causing the engine to rev up and then immediately shifted back into the intended gear and stabilized. The vehicle failed to accelerate without a slight hesitation at a rate slower than intended…

WHILE DRIVING VARIOUS SPEEDS AND DEPRESSING THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL, THE VEHICLE HESITATED TO ACCELERATE. THE FAILURE OCCURRED INTERMITTENTLY AND WITHOUT WARNING. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FAILURE WAS THE SAME AS NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 16V563000 (POWER TRAIN).…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 21V144000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
• 20V279000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
• 17V609000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 18V103000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
• 16V792000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
• 16V548000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
• 18V070000 PARKING BRAKE Fixed free of charge.
• 14V744000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport 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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