Total Complaints
2 filings
MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI · model year
2 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 1999MITSUBISHIMITSUBISHI carries 2 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 1999 MITSUBISHI is suspension with 1 filings, followed by unknown or other (1). Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 13 investigation files overlapping the 1999 MITSUBISHI. 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
2 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| SUSPENSION | 1 |
| UNKNOWN OR OTHER | 1 |
APPROXIMATELY FIVE MONTHS AGO THE CLEAR PAINT COAT BEGAN TO TURN WHITE ON MY BLACK 1999 MITSUBISHI GALANT. IT BEGAN ON THE ROOF OF MY CAR AS A SMALL SPOT...BUT THEN IT SPREAD. I TOOK MY CAR TO DARCARS MITSUBISHI (WHERE I PURCHASED MY CAR BRAND NEW BACK IN 1999) TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE PAINT. THE GUY "TOLD" ME THAT I HAD MY CAR PAINTED BEFORE. I CLARIFIED THAT I NEVER HAD MY CAR PAINTED BEFORE & ASKED TO SPEAK TO HIS MANAGER. I EVEN PRINTED OUT INTERNET COMPLAINTS FROM OTHERS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE CLEAR COATS COMING OFF THEIR MITSUBISHI'S. HIS MANAGER ALSO "TOLD" ME THAT I HAD MY CAR PAINTED. I CLARIFIED THAT I DID NOT APPRECIATE THEM TRYING TO IMPLY THAT I WAS LYING. I MADE IT VERY CLEAR THAT I NEVER HAD MY CAR PAINTED BEFORE. DURING THIS TIME OF FRUSTRATION A MITSUBISHI SALES REP ACTUALLY HAD THE NERVE TO TRY TO PERSUADE ME INTO LOOKING AT NEWER GALANT'S!!! I CALLED MITSUBISHI HEADQUARTERS AND THEY TOLD ME I NO LONGER HAD A WARRANTY ON THE PAINT. I COME FROM A LARGE FAMILY...AND WE'VE A
THE SUV-NATIVA DOES NOT DRIVE IN A STRAIGHT LINE, IT TENDS TO DEVIATE TO THE RIGHT. THIS IS NOTICED PARTICULARLY WHEN APPLYING THE BRAKES. THE CAR HAS BEEN TAKEN TO THE DEALER FOR CORRECTION IN TWO OCCATIONS (12-22-1999, 11,998 M.; 3-23-2000, 16,175 M.) AND CONTINUES TO RECURR FOR A THIRD TIME NOW (5-6-2000, 18,583 M.). I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY OTHER OWNERS THAT THEY ARE EXPERIENCING THE SAME RECURRENT PROBLEM. I'M AFFRAID THIS DEFECT MIGHT TURN IN MAJOR DIFICULTY IN CONTROLLING THE CAR IN STRENOUS SITUATIONS. ALSO AFTER THE 36,000 MILES WARRANTY I WILL CONTINUE WITH THE PROBLEM (MOST PROBABLY WORSENED) AND THEN AT MY COST. *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 1999 MITSUBISHI MITSUBISHI; 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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