EngineFuel systemPowertrain (other)
Filed Feb 9, 2026
Car jerks like it’s losing power when pulling off, not sure if it’s transmission issue or engine issue
- NHTSA ID
- 11716839
- Incident
- Jan 1, 2026
2015 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport Fuel system Problems
Owner-reported complaints naming the fuel system system, filed with NHTSA
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Fuel system reportsComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
14
Latest Feb 9, 2026
Share of all reportsThis category as a share of every owner report on file for this model year. One report can name more than one component, so the categories overlap.
8%
of 182 total
Crash or fire reportedReports in this category whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. The reporter's own answer on the NHTSA form, not a verified finding.
0
Injuries or deaths reportedTotals the submitters entered on their own reports in this category. Not verified by NHTSA and not a casualty statistic.
0
What this page shows
Reports naming fuel storage or delivery — tanks, pumps, lines, injectors and fuel leaks. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 14 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.
Owner reports naming fuel system
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
EngineFuel systemPowertrain (other)
Filed Apr 2, 2024
The car started using more fuel, hesitatingly, slipping gears wouldn’t go in gear, died while driving.
- NHTSA ID
- 11580590
- Incident
- Dec 6, 2023
EngineFuel systemPowertrain (other)
Filed Nov 15, 2022
Won't shift gears, hesitates while driving, won't drive after stopping. Check engine light and transmission service warning light is on.
- NHTSA ID
- 11493717
- Incident
- Nov 10, 2022
Fuel systemPowertrain (other)
Filed Nov 1, 2021
No lights on. The vehicle is hesitage when driving.
- NHTSA ID
- 11438828
- Incident
- Oct 1, 2016
ElectricalFuel systemPowertrain (other)
Filed Jun 4, 2021
My transmission doesn't go into gear right away and doesn't drive right in automatic. If I switch it to manual and only go up to 5th gear it shifts fine. There was a transmission recall for same year make and model as mine. Those recalls happened around 80,000 miles. I have 84,000. I was previously told I needed either a fuel tank or fuel injectors, never got it diagnosed. My gas gauge reads full all the time even when I dont have gas.
- NHTSA ID
- 11419604
- Incident
- Apr 29, 2021
Fuel systemSuspension
Filed Jul 7, 2020
SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT, SLOW EMISSIONS LEAK. IT WAS AT THE GAS CAP. RUST AROUND FILLER TUBE. NEEDED TO REMOVE RUST SO GAS CAP MAKES GOOD DEAL. SLOW ACCELERATE WITH TRANSMISSION AND NOISE FROM LOWER CONTROL ARM
- NHTSA ID
- 11337940
- Incident
- Jul 7, 2020
- Mileage
- 62,000 mi
EngineFuel systemPowertrain (other)
Filed May 24, 2020
2015 MITSUBISHI STARTED SPUTTERRING WHILE WAITING FOR RED LIGHT AND HESITATES WHEN ACCELERATING. CHECK ENGINE CAME ON. LOOKS LIKE THERE ARE OTHER SIMILAR COMPLAINTS, BUT WHEN I LOOKED UP THE RECALL MY VEHICLE IS NOT INCLUDED. *TR
- NHTSA ID
- 11325744
- Incident
- May 24, 2020
- Mileage
- 20 mi
Fuel system
Filed Dec 7, 2018
TRAVELING ON FREEWAY BEGAN EXPERIENCING HESITATION IN ENGINE. THOUGHT POSSIBLE POOR GAS. ADDED 91 OCTANE. GOT BACK ON ROAD HESITATION GOT WORSE. ENGINE LIGHT SAYING TRANSMISSION SERVICE REQUIRED. 20 MILES FROM NEAREST TOWN TRANSMISSION STOPS AND I AM STRANDED ON SIDE OF INTERSTATE 10
- NHTSA ID
- 11156710
- Incident
- Dec 5, 2018
- Mileage
- 73,000 mi
ElectricalFuel systemSteering
Filed May 22, 2016
IT HESITATES ON TAKE OFF , DRIVERS WINDOW IS STUTTERING. HAD ELECTRICAL SYSTEM FLASH ON AND OFF , TIME OF DAY CHANGES TO DAYLIGHT SAVING BY ITSELF , PULLS TO THE RIGHT UPON BRAKING. ACCELERATION IS AWFUL . JERKS WHILE CHANGING GEARS. MOST OF THIS IS AT STOPPING,OR TAKING OFF FROM STOP . CITY DRIVING . ON COLD MORNINGS IT ALSO RIDES HARD ON WHEELS AND HIGHWAY IS HESITANT. TRY'S TO STALL. AT 70 MILES A HOUR. DOES NOT HEAT CAR ADEQUATELY. THIS AT 20 DEGREES.
- NHTSA ID
- 10870205
- Incident
- Jan 15, 2015
- Mileage
- 10,500 mi
Driver assistanceFuel systemPowertrain (other)
Filed Mar 24, 2016
WHEN TRYING TO PULL AWAY FROM STOP VEHICLE JUST STOPS ENGINE STILL RUNNING IT JUST WONT GO. VEHICLE WAS TAKEN IN FOR THE COMPUTER FLASH SEEMED TO HELP BUT THEN STARTED DOING IT AGAIN. THIS IS DANGEROUS CAN EASILY BE REARENDED. IT HAS HAPPENED WHEN TURNING OR STRAIGHT BUT ALWAYS AFTER STOPPING THEN PULLING AWAY FROM STOP. BOUGHT VEHICLE WITH JUST OVER 2000 MILES WE SUSPECT THE PRIOR OWNER HAD SAME PROBLEM.
- NHTSA ID
- 10851363
- Incident
- Mar 23, 2016
- Mileage
- 3,200 mi
EngineFuel systemPowertrain (other)
Filed Feb 11, 2016
VEHICLE WOULD NOT RESPOND AFTER STOPPING IT WOULD START TO GO THEN HESITATE AND STOP. WE COULD HAVE BEEN HIT BY ONCOMING TRAFFIC IT DID GO AFTER CONTINUALLY PRESSING DEPRESSING ACCELERATOR. VEHICLE HAS DONE THIS 4 TIMES YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN IT MIGHT HAPPEN. IT HAS ONLY HAPPENED AFTER STOPPING THEN ATTEMPTING TO GO AGAIN ENGINE IS RUNNING FINE PRIOR TO AND AFTER IT GOES AGAIN. VEHICLE HAS ONLY 3000 MILES ON IT.
- NHTSA ID
- 10825531
- Incident
- Feb 10, 2016
- Mileage
- 3,000 mi
Fuel systemPowertrain (other)
Filed Dec 26, 2015
SEVERAL INSTANCES WHERE ACCELERATION FAILED MOMENTARILY WERE FOLLOWED BY A RECALL. SEVERAL WEEKS AFTER THE ISSUE WAS 'CORRECTED", ACCELERATION FAILED TO GENERATE A SPEED PAST 30 MPH FOR A FEW MOMENTS, THEN 25 MPH, AND I BARELY MANAGED TO GET BACK AT HOME AT NO MORE THAN 20 MPH. EVERY TIME I STEPPED ON THE GAS, IT CAUSED ACCELERATION TO DECREASE UNTIL I STOPPED AND COASTED AT 20.
- NHTSA ID
- 10816284
- Incident
- Dec 26, 2015
- Mileage
- 5,300 mi
Fuel systemPowertrain (other)
Filed Nov 28, 2015
I FILED A COMPLAINT BEFORE AND NOT SURE HOW LONG THEY STAY ON THIS WEBSITE BUT I NO LONGER HAVE MY VEHICLE IT WAS "REPO" ON 11.11.15 AND WAS GOING TO AUCTION ON 11.26.15 - WHO EVER BOUGHT THIS VEHICLE NEEDS TO KNOW IT IS A LEMON. I HAVE ALL THE PAPERWORK TO PROVE IT. PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN DRIVING THIS VEHICLE.
- NHTSA ID
- 10807273
- Incident
- Feb 19, 2015
- Mileage
- 100 mi
Fuel system
Filed Jul 21, 2015
THE CAR STUTTERS AND JERKS TO ACCELERATE WHEN GAS IS PRESSED FROM A STOPPED POSITION AT TRAFFIC LIGHT. THIS HAS HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES, CALLED THE DEALER AND THEY HAVEN'T HEARD OF THE ISSUE. HAVE NOT HAD TIME TO STOP IN. SEEMS LIKE THIS IS AN ONGOING PROBLEM, IN FACT, I BELIEVE ONE REVIEW FROM MOTOR TREND WITNESSED A SIMILAR ISSUE "ADDITIONALLY, THE CVT WOULD STUTTER OR HESITATE WHEN GENTLY MODULATING THE GAS PEDAL WHEN HEAVY FREEWAY TRAFFIC REQUIRED CONSTANT ADJUSTMENT, A CHARACTERISTIC NOT NOTED DURING OUR TENURE IN THE 2011 MODEL ON THE SAME ROAD TRIP OR AT ANY OTHER TIMES." HTTP://WWW.MOTORTREND.COM/CARS/2015/MITSUBISHI/OUTLANDER_SPORT/ I'M GOING TO CALL THE OTHER DEALER NEAR ME AND ASK.
- NHTSA ID
- 10735394
- Incident
- Jul 17, 2015
- Mileage
- 550 mi
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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- NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation — owner-reported complaints and the components recorded on them
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