Recall Register

Mitsubishi Mirage: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Mitsubishi Mirage, model years 1986 to 2024. NHTSA has 702 complaints on file for this model line. 14 of the 27 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. 19861
  2. 19871
  3. 19881
  4. 19891
  5. 19901
  6. 19911
  7. 19921
  8. 19932
  9. 19940
  10. 19950
  11. 19960
  12. 19971
  13. 19982
  14. 19993
  15. 20002
  16. 20012
  17. 20021
  18. 20143
  19. 20152
  20. 20161
  21. 20172
  22. 20181
  23. 20190
  24. 20200
  25. 20210
  26. 20220
  27. 20240
Mitsubishi Mirage: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2024 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page0312%
2022 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page028%
2021 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page028%
2020 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page014%
2019 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page0519%
2018 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page11038%83,555
2017 Mitsubishi Mirage21558%84,142
2016 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page114%83,555
2015 Mitsubishi Mirage239150%139,454
2014 Mitsubishi Mirage344169%153,012
2002 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page1519%100,432
2001 Mitsubishi Mirage231119%119,062
2000 Mitsubishi Mirage235135%119,062
1999 Mitsubishi Mirage357219%329,062
1998 Mitsubishi Mirage243165%210,031
1997 Mitsubishi Mirage174285%210,000
1996 Mitsubishi Mirage028108%
1995 Mitsubishi Mirage070269%
1994 Mitsubishi Mirage060231%
1993 Mitsubishi Mirage273281%54,353
1992 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page11558%38,948
1991 Mitsubishi Mirage138146%658,000
1990 Mitsubishi Mirage133127%658,000
1989 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page1623%658,000
1988 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page1831%658,000
1987 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page1312%658,000
1986 Mitsubishi Mirage NHTSA page114%658,000

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

942 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 Mirage: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags181.5171
Seat Belts149.7141
Engine and Engine Cooling95.590
Service Brakes, Hydraulic82.878
Power Train71.167
Electrical System66.963
Structure39.337
Vehicle Speed Control39.337
Suspension38.236
Unknown or Other30.829

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mitsubishi Mirage, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1997, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mitsubishi Mirage, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2000, with 77 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mitsubishi: all 25 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mitsubishi Mirage: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mitsubishi/mirage/. 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
30 Sep 2026
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 Mirage model years have the most recall campaigns?
2014 with 3, 1999 with 3, 2017 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mitsubishi Mirage model year has the most complaints?
The 1997 model year, with 74 of the 702 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mitsubishi Mirage name?
Air Bags: 181.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Seat Belts: 149.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 95.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mitsubishi Mirage?
7 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.