2001 MITSUBISHI SPYDER — Complaint #492416
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NHTSA Complaint about WHEELS:MULTI PIECE filed August 24, 2004
NHTSA complaint #492416 (ODI reference 10088474) concerns a 2001 MITSUBISHI SPYDER and was filed on August 24, 2004. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 15, 2003. The report was geocoded to South Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as wheels:multi piece, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 SPYDER cohort independently describe similar wheels:multi piece 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 2001 MITSUBISHI SPYDER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
17" RIMS ON MY 2001 MITSUBISHI SPYDER ARE BENT FOR NO APPARENT REASON. THIS HAS BEEN THE CASE FOR OVER 18 MONTHS. I ASKED THE MITSUBISHI DEALERS IN MY AREA AND THEY SAID I MUST HAVE HIT SOMETHING TO CREATE THE PROBLEM. I DID NOT. I RESEARCHED THE DEFECT TO SEE IF IT WAS A COMMON OCCURENCE AND FOUND SCORES OF REPORTS ON THE INTERNET. *AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 492416 |
| ODI Number | 10088474 |
| Date Filed | August 24, 2004 |
| Failure Date | January 15, 2003 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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