Model years Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder
2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder
Complaints about this year name eclipse contact far more often than the model's other years — 37% of them, about 93× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 99 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 7 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Recalls | 0 |
Also unusual this year
- car — 33% of complaints, 83× usual
- stop — 24% of complaints, 61× usual
- brake pedal — 23% of complaints, 58× usual
What owners wrote
WHEN THE BRAKE PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED, THE VEHICLE HESITATED TO STOP. THE BRAKE PEDAL ABNORMALLY TRAVELED TO THE FLOORBOARD AND MADE AN ABNORMAL NOISE WHEN RELEASED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE [VIN] WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE APPRO…
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…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder 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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