2001 Mitsubishi Rvr

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the air bags › frontal. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Air Bags › Frontal1
101

What owners reported

Newest filings
Air Bags › FrontalCrash1 injured
Filed Sep 12, 200571,000 milesVA

I HAD A 2001 MITSUBISHI DIAMANTE LS. MY CAR WAS TOTALED IN AN ACCIDENT. MY CAR HIT AN EMBANKMENT AND A TREE DUE TO ANOTHER DRIVER. THE IMPACT OF THE HIT WAS VERY POWERFUL. IT PUSHED THE TRANSMISSION OUT OF PLACE. I COULDN'T RETRIEVE MY KEYS FROM THE IGNITION SWITCH, NOR PUT THE CAR IN PARK BECAUSE OF THE TRANSMISSION. THE POLICE OFFICER AND I WAS TOTALLY SHOCKED THAT NEITHER ONE OF THE AIR BAGS DEPLOYED. THIS WAS A VERY EMOTIONAL AND BAD EXPERIENCE. MY SON COULD HAVE LOST HIS LIFE BECAUSE OF NON-FUNCTIONAL AIR BAGS AND ALSO HIS FRIEND'S LIFE. AIR BAGS ARE FOR SAFETY. WHAT'S THE POINT OF HAVING THEM IN YOUR VEHICLE IF THEY'RE NOT GOING TO WORK? IF MY SON AND HIS FRIEND WASN'T WEARING THEIR SEAT BELTS THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN KILLED. DOES IT ACTUALLY HAVE TO BE A DEATH BEFORE ANYONE WILL LISTEN TO YOUR COMPLAINT OR EVEN BE CONCERNED ABOUT IT? I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED. I CALLED THE DEALERSHIP FIRST, THEY REFERRED ME TO THE MITSUBISHI MANUFACTURER. I INFORMED MY INSURANCE COMPANY ABOUT THE AIR BAGS NOT DEPLOYING AND THEY WERE SHOCKED. THEY COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT NEITHER ONE OF THE AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. I SPOKE WITH THE MANUFACTURERS REPRESENTATIVELY AND ALL THEY SAID WAS, I'LL SEND YOU A BOOK ON AIR BAGS. THEY SAID ITS NORMAL FOR AIR BAGS NOT TO DEPLOY SOMETIMES. MY SON RECEIVED A LOT OF MINOR INJURIES SUCH AS: BRUISES, A DEEP CUT ON THE INSIDE OF HIS LIP, A LARGE KNOT ON HIS LEFT ELBOW, LARGE KNOT ON HIS LEFT LEG JUST BELOW HIS KNEE, A KNOT ON HIS FOREHEAD AND A VERY STIFF BODY FOR

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
2001 — this page1000Routine
19991000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.