2018 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER SPORT — Complaint #2064265
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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION filed February 10, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2064265 (ODI reference 11641815) concerns a 2018 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER SPORT and was filed on February 10, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 31, 2025. The vehicle had 90,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Massachusetts based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags:sensor:occupant classification, 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 air bags:sensor:occupant classification 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 2018 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER SPORT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport. The contact stated that upon starting the vehicle, the air bag light warning light was illuminated. The contact stated that the vehicle was taken to a local dealer to be diagnosed. The contact was informed that the air bag sensor was faulty and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 90,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2064265 |
| ODI Number | 11641815 |
| Date Filed | February 10, 2025 |
| Failure Date | January 31, 2025 |
| VIN | JA4AR3AU4JZ |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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