Recall Register

Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 15 recall campaigns for the Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder, model years 1995 to 2009. NHTSA has 177 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 14 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19950
  2. 19960
  3. 19971
  4. 19981
  5. 19991
  6. 20001
  7. 20018
  8. 20022
  9. 20033
  10. 20044
  11. 20052
  12. 20074
  13. 20081
  14. 20091
Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2009 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder NHTSA page118%74,836
2008 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder NHTSA page1216%74,836
2007 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder4540%124,112
2005 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder218%543,874
2004 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder4432%561,795
2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder317134%560,961
2002 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder221166%543,874
2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder873577%1,066,181
2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder NHTSA page1324%100,432
1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder NHTSA page11187%567,432
1998 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder NHTSA page114111%567,432
1997 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder NHTSA page118142%567,432
1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder NHTSA page0540%
1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder NHTSA page0216%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

204 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Wheels235.348
Structure147.130
Power Train117.624
Engine and Engine Cooling73.515
Air Bags63.713
Visibility63.713
Tires53.911
Suspension39.28
Equipment29.46
Electrical System29.46

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2000, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 34 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mitsubishi: all 25 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mitsubishi/eclipse-spyder/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
MITSUBISHI AMERICA

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder model years have the most recall campaigns?
2001 with 8, 2007 with 4, 2004 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder model year has the most complaints?
The 2001 model year, with 73 of the 177 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder name?
Wheels: 235.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 147.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 117.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.