Model years Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
Complaints about this year name wipers far more often than the model's other years — 10% of them, about 26× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 67 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 26 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 26 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- wipers — 29.9% of this year's complaints, against 11.1% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: wipers, visibility, windshield, wiper.
- rusted — 20.9% of this year's complaints, against 8% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: rusted, rust, handle, metal.
- our — 14.9% of this year's complaints, against 4.5% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: our, solution, wont, folded.
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
- rusted — 9% of complaints, 22× usual
- rust — 9% of complaints, 22× usual
- our — 9% of complaints, 22× usual
What owners wrote
The mouth part where u put the fuel nozzle into ur vehicle is rusting very bad and I try to clean it out often but I'm still concerned that there are rusted pieces of metal still getting down into my actual gas tank. What can be done about this? I wouldn't thi…
The vehicle was taken to the local dealer to be repaired under NHTSA Campaign Number: 21V144000 (Suspension, Structure); and it was determined the undercarriage was extremely rusted. The vehicle was not repaired due to the rust. The manufacturer was contacted,…
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.
- 18V103000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 16V792000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 18V070000 PARKING BRAKE Fixed free of charge.
- 14V031000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V744000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 13V116000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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