2004 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE — Complaint #543058
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:CONTROLS:HAND CONTROL/VALVE filed July 7, 2005
NHTSA complaint #543058 (ODI reference 10127847) concerns a 2004 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE and was filed on July 7, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 5, 2005. The vehicle had 7,600 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Colorado based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:controls:hand control/valve, 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: yes, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. A complaint that flags a crash, fire, or fatality is escalated on NHTSA's internal review queue and factors more heavily into any Preliminary Evaluation decision on this make and model. 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 ECLIPSE cohort independently describe similar service brakes, air:controls:hand control/valve 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 2004 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
CAR WAS PARKED WITH EBRAKE PULLED UPWARDS TO HOLD CAR IN PLACE. THE 04 ECLIPSE GT ROLLED BACKWARDS OUT OF THE PARKING SPOT AND JUMPED THE CURB HITTING ANOTHER VEHICLE. 04 ECLIPSE TAKEN TO MITSUBISHI ON 7/7/05 AND THEY ADJUSTED THE EBREAK SAYING TI WAS LOOSE.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 543058 |
| ODI Number | 10127847 |
| Date Filed | July 7, 2005 |
| Failure Date | July 5, 2005 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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