Model years Mitsubishi Outlander
2013 Mitsubishi Outlander
This year drew an ordinary 68 complaints for a Mitsubishi Outlander — the model's median is 46. What they were about is the unusual part: 30.9% of them mention home, against 8.7% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Mitsubishi Outlander ran from 2007 to 2013, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 68 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 46 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- home — 30.9% of this year's complaints, against 8.7% across the other years of this generation (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: home, twice, saying, because car.
- required — 29.4% of this year's complaints, against 8.6% across the other years of this generation (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: required, message, service required, warning message.
- airbag — 11.8% of this year's complaints, against 1.6% across the other years of this generation (7.4×). Owners wrote it as: airbag, airbags deployed, neck.
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
CAR WOULD RANDOMLY SHUDDER AND RPMS FLUCTUATE WHILE IDLING. THEN WOULD JUST DIE WHEN ATTEMPTING TO GO FROM IDLE. EVENTUALLY ASC SERVICE REQUIRED WARNING CAME ON WITH SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT. TRANSMISSION TUNNLER WAS REPLACED. CAR RAN FINE FOR A FEW WEEKS AND PROB…
DRIVING DOWN THE INTERSTATE ITS ABOUT 85 DEGREES OUT AND IM GOING 70 MPH. THE TRANSMISSION OVER HEAT LIGHT COME ON AND IT SAYS TO SLOW DOWN. I DIDN'T HAVE A CHOICE BECAUSE THE CAR STARTED SLOWING DOWN ON ITS OWN. ABOUT 5 MILES A PULL OVER AT A EXIT. I LET IT S…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V461000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 16V791000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 16V458000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 14V366000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 20V279000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Mitsubishi Outlander 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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