Mitsubishi’s modern U.S. lineup is compact but its complaint file is real: continuously variable transmissions that shudder and whine in the Outlander and Eclipse Cross, infotainment freezes, and electrical faults — plus recall campaigns shared with alliance partner Nissan on the current Outlander platform, covering items from software faults to suspension components. The full record is on our Mitsubishi problems and recalls hub.
The brand’s headline is its warranty: five years or 60,000 miles bumper-to-bumper and ten years or 100,000 miles on the powertrain — among the longest in the industry. For lemon law purposes that is leverage. A CVT that has been serviced, reflashed, and serviced again inside a ten-year powertrain warranty is a repeat-repair case with an unusually long paper trail available to build it.
If your Mitsubishi hesitates from a stop or drones under load and the dealer calls it “normal CVT operation,” have that finding written on the order. A stack of normal-operation findings for a worsening symptom reads very differently once the transmission finally fails.
If your Mitsubishi has been in the shop repeatedly for the same warranty problem, or has spent weeks out of service, you may have a lemon law claim. Get a free case review — it costs nothing unless we recover for you.