Model years Mitsubishi Eclipse
2008 Mitsubishi Eclipse
Complaints about this year name brake pedal far more often than the model's other years — 32% of them, about 81× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 71 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 8 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- recalled — 14.1% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the model's other years (4.6×). Owners wrote it as: recalled, peddle, brakes brake, hurt.
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, 67× usual
- stop — 24% of complaints, 60× usual
- hydraulic however — 23% of complaints, 56× usual
What owners wrote
WHILE DRIVING 15 MPH, THE VEHICLE REQUIRED A LONGER STOPPING DISTANCE WHEN THE BRAKE PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED. THE CONTACT RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 15V337000 (SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC); HOWEVER, THE PART FOR THE RECALL WAS NOT AVAILABLE. THE…
WHILE DRIVING 60 MPH AND DEPRESSING THE BRAKE PEDAL, THE BRAKE PEDAL TRAVELED TO THE FLOORBOARD AND HAD TO BE DEPRESSED SEVERAL TIMES TO STOP THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE ABS HYDRAULIC UNIT NEEDED TO BE REPLA…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V337000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
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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