STRUCTURE:BODY:HATCHBACK/LIFTGATE:SUPPORT DEVICE/STRUT
A gas spring cylinder rupture or a liftgate falling unexpectedly can increase the risk of injury.
4 safety recall campaigns, 58 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
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.
A gas spring cylinder rupture or a liftgate falling unexpectedly can increase the risk of injury.
A gas spring cylinder rupture or a liftgate falling unexpectedly can increase the risk of injury.
An unrestrained occupant has an increased risk of injury in the event of a crash.
If the parking brake actuator shaft binds, the parking brake may not engage or disengage fully. If the parking brake does not engage properly, the vehicle may move unexpectedly if it is parked on a slope, increasing the risk of a crash.
Two 2014 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDERs 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.