2015 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER SPORT Recalls — Canada & USA

The 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport has 9 recalls, the most serious involving defective electrical relays that can cause the engine to stall or overheat, a front control arm that can detach and cause loss of vehicle control, and a CVT transmission hose that can come loose and leak fluid until the vehicle becomes inoperable. On the chassis and structural side, the rear brake calipers can take on water and corrode the parking brake actuator shafts, leaving the parking brake unable to fully engage or release. The liftgate strut outer tube can also corrode and suddenly lose its gas charge, causing the hatch to drop without warning. The front passenger seatbelt lap anchor fastener may have been under-torqued and can loosen over time, leaving the occupant with inadequate restraint in a crash. Two separate recalls address the windshield wipers: water intrusion can corrode the wiper linkage ball joint until the linkage separates and the wipers stop moving, and the same water intrusion can reach the wiper motor and cause it to fail entirely. On the transmission software side, certain CVT-equipped models can hesitate noticeably when the driver accelerates, which reduces the driver's ability to respond to traffic conditions.