Owner-reported complaints naming the transmission system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the automatic or manual transmission, including shifting behaviour, shudder, slipping and transmission control modules. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 17 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
1990 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE WITH AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS. CONSUMER STATES THAT IT HAS BROKEN TWICE IN HIS VEHICLE. HE STATES THAT IF THIS BREAKS IT COULD CAUSE A SERIOUS ACCIDENT BECAUSE THE VEHICLE JUST STOPS AND SHUTS OFF. *KB
CONSUMER NOTICED LARGE AMOUNT OF FLUID UNDER VEHICLE. DEALER REPAIRED TRANSFER CASE TWICE, BUT VEHICLE WAS STILL LEAKING. DEALRR REFUSED TO REPAIR . PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION.*AK
TRANSFER CASE LOCKUPS DUE TO LEAKAGE OF LUBRICANTS ON THIS VEHICLE IS WELL DOCUMENTED. DEALER WAS NOTIFIED OF GEAR NOISE AT 69000 MILES BUT OWNER WAS TOLD TRANSFER CASE WAS OK. AT THAT TIME THERE WAS INSPECTION ON RECALL # C9803TXX. TRANSFER CASE NOW VERY NOISEY AND VIBRATES.*AK
ALUMINUM SPORT RIMS WERE REPLACED DUE TO SEVERE CORROSION AND PITTING. *SLC
AFTER MAKING A COMPLAINT OF NOISE IN MY DRIVETRAIN AND THEN HAVING THE TRANSMISSION AND TRASFER CASE SERVICED AT A MITSUBISHI DEALER WHO LATER TOLD ME THAT THIER MECHANICS WERE NOT FACTORY CERTIFIED AND WAS TOLD AFTER MY CAR DEVELOPED A PROBLEM THAT I WOULD HAVE TO HAVE MY CAR TOWED ONE HUNDRED MILES TO GREENWOOD INDIANA WERE THEY HAD A FACTORY CERTIFIED MECHANIC TO INSPECT MY CAR MY TRASFER CASE ON MY CAR FAILED TWICE ON FIRST FAILURE THE CASE WAS REPLACED ON THE SECOND FAIURE THE TRANSFER CASE LOCKED UP ON THE HIGHWAY ABOUT 150 MILES FROM WERE I HAD IT SERVICED AT THE MITSUBISHI DEALERSHIP IN CLARKSVILLE TENNESSE.AT THIS POINT IN TIME WHEN THE WHEELS LOCKED UP THE GEARSHIFT LEVER ON MY CAR JERKED VIOLENTLY AND THE TRANSMISSIION EXPLODEED.THROUGHING ME INTO A DITCH ALONG THE SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY AND SLAMMING MY CHEST INTO THE STEERING WHEEL.I WAS MILDLY BRUISED ON MY UPPER BODY.WHEN I CALLED THE DEALER THEY GOT IN TOUCH WITH THE MITSUBISHI COMPANY.MISUBITSHI TOLD ME ON THE PHONE THAT THEIR ENGINEER SAID THAT THIS COULD NOT HAPPEN.AND WOULD NOT HELP ME FIND A WAY TO RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM.MY CAR HAS BEEN BROKEN SINCE I TOOK IT FOR SERVICE FORTHE ORIGINAL COMPLAINT.I BELIEVE SINCE THE TRANSFER CASE IS DIRECTLY COUPLED TO THE TRANSMISSION WHEN IT LOCKED UP IT ALSO LOCKED UP THE TRANSMISSION CAUSING IT TO EXPLODE.MITSUBITSHI CLAIMED THIS WAS NOT POSSIBLE.I HAVE THE ORIGINAL PARTS AT MY HOUSE WHICH CAN BE INSPECTED TO CONFIRM MY BELIEFS AND WOULD BE HAPPY TO TURN THEM OVER TO WHOMEVER IS NESSECARY TO RESOLVE THIS CONFLICT BEFORE THIS HAPPENS TO SOME ONE ELSE I BELIEVE FROM THE VIOLENCE OF THE FAILURE THAT THIS PROBLEM COULD BE POSSIBLY LIFE THREATING TO ANY DRIVER OF SUCH A VEHICLE AND THAT THIS PROBLEM SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED.I HAVE JUST RECENTLY FOUND YOUR ADDRESS TO REPORT THIS OR I WOULD HAVE DONE SO ALONG TIMME AGO.*AK
AFTER RETURNING THE VEHICLE TO A DEALER BECASUE OF A RECALL FOR A LEAKING TRANSFER CASE, I WAS TOLD THAT THE RACK AND PINION ASSEMBLY WAS LEAKING. THEY SAID THIS COULD RESULT IN A LOSS OF STEERING, WHICH IS JUST AS SERIOUS AS THE TRANSFER CASE PROBLEM. IS THIS A WIDESPREAD DEFECT? SHOULD THIS BE FIXED UNDER A RECALL? THE COST TO REPAIR IT WAS ESTIMATED AT ABOUT $1400 *AK
CONSUMER DENIED RECALL REPAIR BY DEALERSHIP AND CHARGED FOR REPAIR. MJS (98V-069)
VEHCILE WAS INVOLVED RECALL 98V069001, IN WHICH THE REMEDY DID NOT CORRECT THE PROBLEM. WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY THE TRANSFER CASE LOCKED UP, CAUSING THE WHEELS TO LOCK UP. PLEASE GIVE ANY FURTHER DETAILS. *AK
VEHICLE IS EXPERIENCING THE SAME PROBLEM THAT THE 1990-1998 MITSUBISHI GALANT RECALL ON TRANSFER CASE; DEALER NOTIFIED AND WILL NOT HONOR RECALL WITHOUT COST TO THE CONSUMER. *AK
EA98-002; DRIVING AT APRROXIMATELY 50-55 MPH CONSUMER WENT TO ACCELERATE , ENGINE DID NOT SPEED UP, KEPT APPLYING ACCELERATOR, BUT DID NOT SPEED UP, ALMOST RESULTING IN AN ACCIDENT , DEALER REPLACED TRANSMISSION. *AK
TRANSFER CASE LEAK.
TRANSFER CASE YOKE LEAKED FLUID THROUGH BRASS PLUG. BECAUSE OF THE LEAKAGE THROUGH THE BRASS PLUG THE TRANSFER CASE BECAME DEFECTIVE AND MIGHT LOCK UP, RESULTING IN UNCONTROLLABLE 4-WHEEL SKID.
TRANSFER CASE YOKE LEAKING.
TRANSFER CASE IS PRONE TO LEAK AND SUDDEN SEIZURE.
CONTINUOUS LEAKING ORIGINATING FROM THE TRANSFER CASE, COULD LEAD TO DRIVESHAFT LOCKUP. *AK
POOR PERFORMANCE OF THE TRANSMISSION HAD TO REPLACE THE TRANSMISSION 4 TIMES. TT
DRIVESHAFT BROKE, CAUSING REAR WHEELS TO LOCK UP, RESULTING IN LOSS OF CONTROL. *AK
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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