2017 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER SPORT — Complaint #1459243
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:REAR/OTHER filed April 4, 2018
NHTSA complaint #1459243 (ODI reference 11083282) concerns a 2017 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER SPORT and was filed on April 4, 2018. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 22, 2018. The vehicle had 1,100 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Nebraska based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:rear/other, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER SPORT cohort independently describe similar seat belts:rear/other failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2017 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER SPORT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2017 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER SPORT. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE SEAT BELTS ON THE REAR SEATS FAILED TO LATCH FOR PASSENGERS WHO WEIGHED OVER 125 POUNDS. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO WANTAGH MITSUBISHI (3460 SUNRISE HWY, WANTAGH, NY 11793, 516-785-4300) WHERE THE TECHNICIAN STATED THAT THERE WAS NO RECALL. THE TECHNICIAN RECOMMENDED SEAT BELT EXTENSIONS AT A COST TO THE CONTACT. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE AND STATED THAT THERE WAS NO RECALL. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 1,100.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1459243 |
| ODI Number | 11083282 |
| Date Filed | April 4, 2018 |
| Failure Date | March 22, 2018 |
| VIN | JA4AP3AU5HZ |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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