1993 Mitsubishi Stealth

Routine

Owners filed 4 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the visibility › sun/moon roof assembly. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Visibility › Sun/Moon Roof Assembly1
000
Seat Belts › Front › Retractor1
000
Seat Belts1
000
Electrical System1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Electrical System
Filed Dec 12, 2007117,120 milesAZ

IF YOU CONDUCT A SEARCH ON 3SI FOR ECU AND TRY TO WEED OUT WHO HAS REPLACED THEIRS AND FIXED THEIR PROBLEMS BY REPLACING THEIRS I'M SURE THE NUMBER GOES WAY OVER 9 WE HAVE WASTED COUNTLESS HOURS DAYS AND WEEKS WORTH OF TIME AND MONEY HUNCHING OVER OUR CARS TRYING TO TROUBLESHOOT ISSUES WITH MECHANICAL KNOWLEDGE NEVER REACHING THE FIX ALL THE WHILE BECAUSE A BROKEN ECU HAS US LOOKING EVERYWHERE ELSE BUT ITSELF ALL BECAUSE MITSUBISHI DECIDED TO USE SUBSTANDARD CAPACITORS AND POSSIBLY RESISTORS IN THE ECU WHICH EVENTUALLY EITHER JUST WENT BAD AND STAYED INTACT OR LEAKED ALL OVER THE BOARD NOT TO MENTION THAT THIS CAPACITOR DAMAGE USUALLY CAUSES OTHER ECU ISSUES FROM THE LEAKAGE AND PROLONGED USE IN A BROKEN STATE YOU CAN PROBABLY ADD ME AS A #10 TO THE FIXED LIST TOO BECAUSE IM 90% SURE AT THE MOMENT THAT IVE DIAGNOSED WITH THE HELP OF A FRIEND THAT MY ECU IS BUSTED AS WELL AND IVY BEEN FACING SPUTTERING ISSUES FOR ABOUT 3 YRS NOW WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE REPLACING CAPACITORS OR RESISTORS ON ECUS NOR SHOULD THE ECU BE JUST AS COMMON A PART TO HAVE TO ENTERTAIN REPLACING LIKE WE DO AN ALTERNATOR OR SPARK PLUGS AS SUCH IS THE CASE AT LEAST IT SEEMS WITH OUR CARS SPECIFICALLY FOR THE YEARS 1991 1995 ONE SUCH CASE IS PUSHING THE ACCELERATOR WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO MERGE INTO TRAFFIC ONLY TO FIND A STUTTER SPUTTER HESITATION THAT COULD COST YOU A FEW SECONDS LONG ENOUGH TO GET HIT AND COST YOU YOUR LIFE ANOTHER CASE IS WHERE YOU'LL BE STOPPED AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT AND THE CAR STALLS FROM

Seat Belts
Filed Oct 24, 2007159,000 milesIL

MY SEATBELT RESTRAINTS NO LONGER RETRACT ON THEIR OWN ACCORD AND MUST BE FED BACK INTO THE HOUSING. I FEAR THAT IF I WERE TO EVER GET INVOLVED INTO AN ACCIDENT AND THE RESTRAINTS WEREN'T PROPERLY RETRACTED IT COULD SERIOUSLY OR FATALLY HARM ME OR MY PASSENGER(S). THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. -RICHARD WILSON *TR

Seat Belts › Front › Retractor
Filed May 11, 200660,000 milesCA

DRIVERS SIDE SEAT BELT DOES NOT RETRACT PROPERLY. IT WILL STICK IN THE EXTENDED POSITION AND NOT SNUG AGAINST THE SHOULDER. *NM

Visibility › Sun/Moon Roof Assembly
Filed May 24, 1996NY

SUNROOF SHATTERED UPON CLOSING.*SD

4 of 4 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1993
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
19951000Routine
19943000Routine
1993 — this page4000Routine

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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.