1993 Mitsubishi Mirage problems
NHTSA has received 91 complaints about the 1993 Mitsubishi Mirage, and 64% of them involve seat belts. Next are engine (9%) and seats (4%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 91 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Seat belts 64% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 2 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 1 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 2 complaints mention a crash; 1 injury reported. Its complaints are less severe on average than those of 91% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1993 ranks 8th most-complained-about out of 13 model years of the Mitsubishi Mirage with enough data (34 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 2 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
During a vehicle accident at 55 MPH at which the vehicle rolled over, the driver's side automatic shoulder belt disconnected at the door.
While stopped at a stop sign vehicle was rear ended which caused driver's seat to release from the upright position, cause unknown. Please give any further details.
Auto-transmission performs erraticalally, changing gears roughly; gears may also drop into neutral then into reverse without known cause. Tt
My 16 year old daughter was driving her car late on friday night and it stalled out in a rural area. We had it towed to our mechanical and thinking it was the fuel pump. He informed me that the cam shaft had split. He said that this is very unusual. Upon further research I have learned that mitsubishi has been aware of the fact that with the mirage there can be a problem with stalling due to an engine shaft defect.
I have had left front driver side seatbelt retractor fail 3 times once in 1998,2000 &2003. The car has the automatic seatbelts so when you close the door the seatbelt is suppose to retract back behind the seat or along the door jam in each of my incidences I closed the door and the seat belt retractor cable comes out of the rail that runs along the top of the door jam and gets stuck half way to or not at all. It is a recall I believe and I had it replaced for the recall 2 times and now im going to a 3rd time.