1994 Mitsubishi Mirage problems
NHTSA has received 69 complaints about the 1994 Mitsubishi Mirage, and 43% of them involve air bags. Next are engine (12%) and seat belts (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 69 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 44% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 26 and 3
- Injuries and deaths
- 28 and 5
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: 26 complaints mention a crash; 3 complaints mention a fire; 28 injuries reported; 5 deaths reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 99% 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 1994 ranks 9th most-complained-about out of 13 model years of the Mitsubishi Mirage with enough data (34 complaints in that window).
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.
My husband and I were driving home one night from a friends birthday. At approx. 1:20am I was driving north in newark pompton turnpike located in wayne, nj 07470. My husband lifted the emergency brake (the reason is unknown) and the car instantly started spinning on a straight road. Within second the brakes released and sent the front of the vehicle airborne head on into a utility pole resulting in the instant death of my husband because the passenger side airbag did not deploy and my husbands cause of death was…
Driver lost control after the emergency brake was enabled, car freewheeled and crashed head on into utility pole. Drive crushed up dashboard with severe life threatening injuries in critical condition. Passenger side airbag did not deploy and seatbelt did not retract in result my husband was killed immediately.
(1)the ignition switch malfunctioned (2)a spring from the switch froze the steering so that only 5 degree of steering in either direction was possible almost leading to a crash (3)the ignition switch has to be replaced and a new tumbler is needed.
20 amp fuse blows without warning while driving and cuts off engine causing the car to die on the road every time. This happened four (4) times in the past three (3) months and has been reported to NHTSA twice already - see list of complaints for mitusbishi mirage 1994, also see vehicle owner questionnaire (voq) form attached to each of the previous reports posted on the NHTSA website. The first six (6) incident reports on the same 20 amp fuse problem have been reported to NHTSA - see complaint page.