Total Complaints
3 filings
MITSUBISHI EXPO LRV · model year
3 NHTSA complaints. A VIN lookup is required to determine whether a specific vehicle has an unrepaired recall.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The 1992MITSUBISHIEXPO LRV carries 3 consumer safety complaints in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 0 fires, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
The most frequently selected component label in reports for the 1992 EXPO LRV is seat belts with 3 filings. Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 14 investigation files overlapping the 1992 EXPO LRV. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should read the complaint-by-year trend as report volume, not a causal diagnosis. Use the related-complaint feed and the official recall lookup when researching a specific vehicle.
Total Complaints
3 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| SEAT BELTS | 3 |
THE SEAT BELT ON DRIVER SIDE STOPPED OPERATING. MECHANISM IS STUCK AND DOES NOT MOVE THE SEAT BELT CLIP ON THE RAIL ASSEMBLY. HAD PARKED THE VEHICLE, OPENED MY DOOR BUT THE SEAT BELT STOPPED 1/3 ON THE WAY. IT KEPT TRYING TO FUNCTION PROPERLY BUT IT GAVE OUT. WHEN I WENT BACK TO THE VEHICLE, I OPENED THE DOOR AND THE WIRE CAME OUT OF THE RAIL ASSEMBLY. CALLED MULTIPLE DEALERSHIPS BUT WAS TOLD PART IS OBSOLETE. HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND THE CORRECT PART TO MAKE THE VEHICLE SAFE TO DRIVE. IT'S THE ONLY VEHICLE ACCESSIBLE FOR USAGE. PLEASE HELP.
Mileage: 227,900
DRIVER'S SEAT BELT RAIL ASSEMBLY BROKE. I TOOK IT TO SEVERAL MECHANICS. GLENDALE, CA DEALER SAID THE PARTS ARE OBSOLETE. C & C COLLISION IN PASADENA ON 8/23/2012 WAS ABLE TO MAKE IT SAFE BY DISENGAGING THE CABLE/MOTOR MECHANISM. THANK YOU, NHTSA, FOR CONTACTING MITSUBISHI ON MY BEHALF, TO GET IT REPAIRED PROPERLY. PLEASE SEE EMAILS BELOW: EMAILS: SENT: 8/29/2012 SUBJ: RE: DESPERATE WOMAN FROM: [XXX] SENT: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2012 11:44 AM TO: [XXX] SUBJECT: RE: DESPERATE WOMAN HI [XXX], ....I DO KNOW THE PRESIDENT OF THE AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY COUNSEL, WHICH IS AN INDUSTRY GROUP THAT INCLUDES ALL THE BIG AUTOMOTIVE RESTRAINT MANUFACTURERS. I'LL FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO HIM AND COPY [XXX].... FROM [XXX].... I AM A SEATBELT EXPERT IN CA, A FORMER NHTSA CONTRACT INVESTIGATOR AND FORMER NTSB INVESTIGATOR.... SHE'S .... OLD, VERY DISABLED, CANCER STRICKEN WOMAN.... SHE HAS A 1992 MITSUBISHI XLR VAN. THE MOTOR ASSEMBLY WHICH DRIVES THE PASSIVE SHOULDER HARNESS ALONG
Mileage: 394,750
THE DRIVER SIDE AUTOMATIC (SHOULDER) SEAT BELT IS STUCK IN THE UP POSITION AND HENCE CAN'T BE USED. THE SANE PROBLEM WAS THERE THREE YEARS BEFORE AND THE DEALER SAID ITS IN RECALL AND FIXED IT. BUT THIS TIME HE SAID THERE IS NO RECALL AND IT COSTS $700 TO FIX IT. THIS POSES A SERIOUS SAFETY THREAT TO THE DRIVER AND MAKES THE VEHICLE INOPERABLE. *AK
Data vintage: August 2026. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. This year-specific record is rendered from NHTSA ODI, recall, and NCAP rows for the 1992 MITSUBISHI EXPO LRV; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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