Model years Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
2019 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
This year drew an ordinary 47 complaints for a Mitsubishi Outlander Sport — the model's median is 26. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.5% of them mention activated, against 1% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 47 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 26 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- activated — 8.5% of this year's complaints, against 1% across the model's other years (8.9×). Owners wrote it as: activated, stop car, register, brake activated.
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.
What owners wrote
BRAKE ACTIVATED AND AT A COMPLETE STOP, THEN THE CAR STARTED MOVING FROM A COMPLETE STOP WHILE FOOT IS ALL THE WAY ON THE BRAKE. CAR DID NOT REGISTER SPEED AT THIS TIME.
THE EPB (EMERGENCY PARKING BREAK) WAS SOME HOW ACTIVATED, NOT SURE IF BY ACCIDENT OR WIRING ISSUE AND NOW WILL NOT DISENGAGE. I CANNOT DRIVE MY VEHICLE AND HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET IT INTO THE DEALER FOR 3 WEEKS.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V563000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
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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