1996 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE Complaints

CONSUMER RECEIVED RECALL 00V421001 ON FRONT END FOR LOWER BALL JOINTS . SINCE LAST MONTH FRONT PASSENGER SIDE TIRE HAS WORN DOWN TO STEEL BELT. WIRES WERE COMING OUT OF TIRES. CONTACT DEALER, AND DEALER STATED THEY DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH TIRE PROBLEM.*AK MICHELIN DOT 4M39DV6X3700 195/70R14 91T M+S. *NLM

CONSUMER WAS TRAVELING 25MPH, GOING AROUND A CURB, AND THERE WAS A BRIEF NOISE. HE FELT VIBRATION FROM UNDERNEATH OF VEHICLE BECAUSE BALL JOINT BROKE, AND VEHICLE SLID INTO A LIGHT POLE. PASSENGER'S WHEEL WAS LAYING UNDERNEATH VEHICLE. DEALERSHIP WAS AWARE OF PROBLEM.*AK *SLC

WHILE DRIVING 40 MPH IN A "MISTY" LIGHT RAIN VEHICLE HIT AN EMBANKMENT HEAD-ON WHICH CAUSED VEHICLE TO ROLL OVER THREE TIMES. CONSUMER RECEIVED NO INJURIES, BUT WAS EXAMINED FOR TRAUMA. BOTH FRONTAL AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY DURING THIS INCIDENT. VEHICLE WAS AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION, AND HAS NOT BEEN EXAMINED BY ANYONE. *AK *JB

MY ECLIPSE HAS BEEN IN AND OUT OF THE MITSUBISHI DEALER SEVEN TIMES IN A PERIOD OF THREE YEARS GOING INTO THE FOURTH YEAR FOR THE SAME PROBLEM OVER AND OVER AGAIN BEING THAT I WOULD BE DRIVING AND THE CAR WOULD SHUT COMPLETLY DOWN BEING ABLE NOT TO START BACK UP AGAIN AND WHILE GOING OVER BUMPS ON ROADS THE CAR WOULD BUCK AND LEAD TO ALSO SHUTTING OFF, THE DEALERS RESPONSE WAS THAT THEY COULD NOT FIGURE OUT WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS UNTIL LAST YEAR BEFORE THAT TIME THEY WOULD ASUME WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS AND FIX SOMETHING AND THEN CHARGING ME FOR FIXING SOMETHING THAT DID NOT EVEN FIX THE PROBLEM. FINALLY IN 2000 THEY REPLACED THE CRANK SENSOR AND FOR AWHILE THE CAR DID NOT DIE FOR AWHILE UNTIL A FEW MONTHS AGO WHEN I TOOK MY CAR TO A GARAGE WHERE MY CAR DIED WHILE DRIVING IN TRAFFIC AND THEY THEN ALSO REPLACED THE CRANK SENSOR AND SUGGESTED THAT I CHECK INTO MY HEAD GASKET BECAUSE HE HAD SEEN MANY OF THE ECLIPSES HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM BEING THAT THE HEAD GASKET WAS CRACKED.*AK

THE LOWER LATERAL ARM BALL JOINT WERE DEFECTIVE CAUSING PREMATURE AND EXCESSIVE WEAR TO THE TIRES, THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE ALSO NOTICED EXTREME VIBRATION COMING FROM THE FRONT END OF THE VEHICLE WHEN BRAKING, ALSO AS A RESULT OF THE DEFECTIVE BALL JOINT ALL FOUR STRUTS HAD TO BE REPLACED BECAUSE THEY WERE LEAKING. NLM

CONSUMER RECEIVED RECALL NOTICE NHTSA 00V421001/MANUD TO PERFORM REPAIRS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE SIDE THAT WAS DEFECTIVE WAS N0T THE SIDE STATED IN THE RECALL. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER DETAILS. *AK

I HAD PARKED THIS AUTO AND WENT INSIDE TO SLEEP- WAS AWAKEN BY HORN GOING OFF IN AUTO- WENT OUT TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON AND WHEN I OPEN THE DOOR ALL I SAW WAS A BLAST OF SMOKE THAT HIT ME IN THE FACE. FIRE CHIEF SAID IT WAS A ELECTRICAL FIRE THAT STARTED BEHIND THE DASH WHERE THE INSTRUMENTS ARE. THE INSURANCE TOTAL THIS CAR OUT EVERYTHING WAS MELTED IN THE AUTO- I BOUGHT THIS AUTO 15 DAYS AGO USED

OIL LEAKS, ANTENNA PROBLEMS, FUEL PROBLEM, MEANING THE CAR DOES NOT RUN CORRECTLY. NOW THE CAR DOES NOT WORK AT ALL

PRIOR TO EXPIRATION OF WARRANTY, DRIVER SIDE AIRBAG WAS DETERMINED BY DEALERSHIP THAT AIRBAG WAS DEFECTIVE BECAUSE HORN WOULD NOT WORK. IN JANUARY 2001 I HAD THE CAR IN FOR A HEAD GASKET AND SKED FOR THE HORN TO BE CHECKED AGAIN AND IT WAS DETERMINED ONCE AGAIN THAT THE AIRBAG WAS DEFECTIVE. I SAW IN THE PAPER THAT MITSUBISHI WAS RECALLING CALLS DUE TO FAULTY AIRBAGS (2/01). I REFUSE TO PAY $600 FOR SOMETHING THAT IS DEFECTIVE A 2ND TIME AND I FEEL UNSAFE DRIVING THE CAR.

WHEN STARTING CAR WITH FOOT ON BRAKE, TIRES WERE SKIDDING, AND CAR TOOK OFF INTO A POLE. *AK