2020 MITSUBISHI MIRAGE — Complaint #2091179
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC:CALIPER filed May 12, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2091179 (ODI reference 11660400) concerns a 2020 MITSUBISHI MIRAGE and was filed on May 12, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 15, 2024. The vehicle had 49,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Delaware based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:disc:caliper, 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 MIRAGE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:disc:caliper 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 2020 MITSUBISHI MIRAGE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2020 Mitsubishi Mirage. The contact stated that while driving on several occasions at various speeds, there was an abnormal burning odor coming from the brakes with an abnormal grinding sound coming from the brakes. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic and was diagnosed, and it was determined that the calipers had seized. The contact stated that the brake pads and rotors needed to be replaced. The contact stated that the brake pads and rotors had been replaced 5-6 times in a year; however, the failure reoccurred. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 49,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2091179 |
| ODI Number | 11660400 |
| Date Filed | May 12, 2025 |
| Failure Date | February 15, 2024 |
| VIN | ML32A3HJ6LH |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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