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2003 Mitsubishi Galant air conditioning & heating problems

21 complaints about air conditioning & heating have been filed for the 2003 Mitsubishi Galant, which is 13% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the 2nd most reported problem area for this model year.

At a glance

Complaints
21 13% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
62,000 miles 11 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
0 and 0
Injuries and deaths
0 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When air conditioning & heating problems show up

Air conditioning & heating complaints by mileage, 2003 Mitsubishi Galant Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 62,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 0 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 1 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 3 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 2 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 4 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 1 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 0 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 0 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 0 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 62,000 miles
Based on 11 complaints that include mileage. 36% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles0
20k to 40k miles1
40k to 60k miles3
60k to 80k miles2
80k to 100k miles4
100k to 120k miles1
120k to 140k miles0
140k to 160k miles0
160k to 180k miles0
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 11 air conditioning & heating complaints that report mileage, the median is about 62,000 miles, and 36% were reported before 60,000 miles.

None of the air conditioning & heating complaints mention a crash, fire, injury or death.

What owners wrote

Consumer complained about a heat problem. With the heat. While driving, the heat blew out from the vents in the top of the dashboard, but when directing it to the floor, it did not come out of the lower portion of the vehicle. Consumer was told that this was normal. Consumer added that with the control knob on off position, air or heat camed out from the vent.

Reported at 28,000 miles, February 2004

I have a 2003 mitsubishi galant with problems with the heater control motor, from what I understand there have been an exuberant amount of these having this issue and it should be recalled by mitsubishi seeing they charged 22,000 for this car and it is now only worth 3000.

Reported at 85,000 miles, November 2007

Other problems reported for the 2003 Mitsubishi Galant

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