1997 Mitsubishi Mirage problems
NHTSA has received 105 complaints about the 1997 Mitsubishi Mirage, and 17% of them involve engine. Next are air bags (14%) and transmission (14%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 105 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Engine 17% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 18 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 13 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: 18 complaints mention a crash; 1 complaint mentions a fire; 13 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 85% 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 1997 ranks 1st most-complained-about out of 13 model years of the Mitsubishi Mirage with enough data (76 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
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 impact the driver's and passenger's side air bags deployed, causing consumer to sustain burns to the skin. Please describe details.
Consumer was slowing down to make a left turn when she was hit on the driver's side at approx 40-45MPH. The air bags did deploy, but the driver side exploded.
When the vehicle was involved in a front end crash the air bag deployed, but the seat belt did not restrain the occupant, causing the driver to hit head on windshield, air bag deployment resulted in scrapes and bruising. Reported by debbie barker at state farm insurance company.
Tl* - the contact stated that when making a turn ithe safety seat will flip over. She has to hold the safety seat while turning the vehicle in order to reach the seat. While driving the contact must position the seat as far back as possible so that she may prevent the seat from flipping over. Since the child weas only 1 month old the child could not be placed in the front seat. Eddie bauer comfort #22630lkm. Updated
Tl* the contact owns a 1997 mitsubishi mirage. The clips that secures the floor-mats to the floorboard has fractured. This condition causes the floor-mat to shift under the accelerator pedal. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, but a technician stated that there was not a remedy for the failure. The current mileage was 30,831 the failure mileage was 50,000. Updated 01/20/10 updated 01/22/10.