Model years Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
2016 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
Complaints about this year name outlander contact far more often than the model's other years — 19% of them, about 18× the usual rate of 1.1%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 163 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 26 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 8 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- transmission — 36.8% of this year's complaints, against 13.8% across the model's other years (2.7×).
- gear — 13.5% of this year's complaints, against 4.2% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: gear, transmission failed, off gas, take off.
- drove — 11.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: drove, september, shudder, shake.
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
- transmission — 37% of complaints, 3× usual
- vin — 20% of complaints, 3× usual
- gear — 9% of complaints, 21× usual
What owners wrote
My wife and I were at the beach when the truck started jerking really bad. I knew from the motion that transmission was locking up. We stayed 2 nights until we tried to make it home and it would slip in and out of gear. Transmission Maintenance light came on a…
I WAS DRIVING ON THE FREEWAY, AND SUDDENLY MY CAR BEGAN TO JERK, AS IF IT WAS HICCUPING, AND REFUSED TO ACCELERATE FOR A NUMBER SECONDS. IT LABORED TO MAKE IT HOME. IT WAS DANGEROUS BECAUSE IT WOULD ACCELERATE AND THEN JERK CAUSING TRAFFICS TO ABRUPTLY HALT WI…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V741000 PARKING BRAKE Fixed free of charge.
- 20V279000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 17V609000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 17V233000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 18V103000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 16V867000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 18V070000 PARKING BRAKE Fixed free of charge.
- 16V563000 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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