Another 160k Mitsubishi Outlander Sports Recalled In America

Considering how relatively few vehicles Mitsubishi sells each year in the United States, it sure has been recalling a lot of them lately. And a lot of those, in turn, have come down to the Outlander Sport.

Earlier this month, the Japanese automaker announced the recall of 140,000 Lancers, Outlanders, and Outlander Sports for detaching drive belts. Then it recalled another 170,000 Outlanders and Outlander Sports for problems with their parking brakes (along with 56k Lacers for detaching sunroofs).

Now it’s recalling yet another nearly 160,000 vehicles in the US – all of them Outlander Sports from the 2011-16 model years.

The problem here comes down to water leaking in between the hood and windshield, causing the wiper link to corrode and separate. Since that could reduce visibility when driving and increase the risk of a crash, Mitsu’s calling those crossovers into dealers across America to have their wiper-link rods and motor crank arms replaced. No word on patching up the leak itself, but the process to replace the corroding components is set to kick off in April.

The 158,651 vehicles being recalled dwarfs the 103,686 total vehicles that Mitsubishi sold in America last year – which itself marked a ten-year high for the automaker. The Outlander Sport remains one of the company’s top sellers in one of its largest markets, accounting for 33,160 units, or nearly a third of its overall sales in the US throughout 2017. At 35,310 units, only the larger Outlander outsold the smaller Sport model in question, each nearly matching the sales of the Mirage and Lancer combined.