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MITSUBISHI LANCER

2003 MITSUBISHI LANCER

1 safety recall campaign, 1 defect investigation (1 open), 242 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.

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The record

Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations11 open
Owner complaints242
Complaints citing a crash17
Complaints citing a fire2

Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.

Recall campaigns 1 of 1

16V4580002016-06-23

SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:LOWER ARM

A detached front control arm can result in the loss of control of the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.

What owners report most

  • 28VISIBILITY
  • 28VISIBILITY:DEFROSTER/DEFOGGER/HVAC SYSTEM
  • 19POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
  • 17POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY
  • 16UNKNOWN OR OTHER
  • 12VISIBILITY:DEFROSTER/DEFOGGER/HVAC SYSTEM:WINDSHIELD:ELECTRICAL HEATING ELEMENT
  • 10EQUIPMENT
  • 9SUSPENSION

This page is about a model, not a car

Two 2003 MITSUBISHI LANCERs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.

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