2000 MITSUBISHI GALANT — Complaint #578776
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM:WHEEL CYLINDERS filed April 10, 2006
NHTSA complaint #578776 (ODI reference 10155006) concerns a 2000 MITSUBISHI GALANT and was filed on April 10, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 10, 2006. The vehicle had 48,768 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 service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum:wheel cylinders, 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 GALANT cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum:wheel cylinders 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 2000 MITSUBISHI GALANT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
HAD WHEEL CYLINDERS REPLACED -- LEFT REAR IN 2004 AND RIGHT REAR IN DEC 2005. WENT FOR OIL CHANGE TODAY AND ASKED THE MECHANIC TO PULL OF REAR WHEELS BECAUSE THE BRAKES DIDN'T FEEL RIGHT TO ME. RIGHT REAR WAS SOAKED IN BRAKE FLUID AND LEFT REAR HAD JUST STARTED TO LEAK. RIGHT REAR HAD ALSO STARTED TO SEIZE UP DUE TO BRAKE FLUID COATING THE SHOES. WHEEL CYLINDERS SHOULDN'T FAIL AFTER ONLY 4 MONTHS -- AND EVEN 2 YEARS SEEMS LIKE IT IS A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. HAVE HAD OTHER CARS AND NEVER HAD THIS ISSUE. ALSO, FRONT ROTORS SEEM TO WARP OUT REALLY FAST -- AS IN ONCE A YEAR. I DRIVE CAR NORMAL AND AM NOT HARSH ON THE BRAKES. *NM
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 578776 |
| ODI Number | 10155006 |
| Date Filed | April 10, 2006 |
| Failure Date | April 10, 2006 |
Similar SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM:WHEEL CYLINDERS Complaints for 2000 MITSUBISHI GALANT
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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