2015 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport

TRANSMISSION STARTED SLIPPING ON MY WIFE'S BRAND NEW 2015 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER SPORT. CAR HAS LESS THAN 10K MILES ON IT. TOOK IT TO DEALERSHIP AND THEY ORDERED A BRAND NEW TRANSMISSION TO INSTALL. VERY STRANGE THAT THE TRANSMISSION WOULD GO OUT THIS SOON. DEALERSHIP CLAIMED THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS PROBLEM BEFORE ON THE NEW OUTLANDERS.

MY FATHER PURCHASED HIS 2015 OUTLANDER SPORT IN APRIL 2015 WITH A TOTAL OF 3 MILES ON IT. STARTING APPROX THE END OF JULY/BEGINNING OF AUGUST, THE VEHICLE WOULD "STUTTER" AND SHAKE UPON ACCELERATION. HE PROMPTLY TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP OF PURCHASE WHERE THEY TOLD HIM IT WAS A LOOSE TRANSMISSION CABLE AND FIXED IT. APPROX 1 WEEK AFTER BEING FIXED, IT BEGAN TO STUTTER AND SHAKE AGAIN, BUT THIS TIME SOUNDED LIKE LOUD BANGS AND LIKE THE CV JOINT WAS COMING APART. HE TOOK IT TO A DIFFERENT DEALERSHIP AND WAS TOLD THAT THE PREVIOUS TRANSMISSION CABLE FIX WAS UNSUCCESSFUL AND THAT IT WAS FIXED "CORRECTLY THIS TIME". OVER THE LAST WEEK, THE CAR IS ACTING UP AGAIN - AND IS GETTING WORSE OVER TIME. HE HAS TAKEN IT BACK TO THE DEALERSHIP AND THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING. THEY LET IT SIT FOR SEVERAL DAYS WITHOUT LOOKING AT IT AND DAD FINALLY PICKED IT UP WITHOUT ANYTHING BEING DONE TO IT. HE WAS EVEN IN CONTACT WITH THE MITSUBISHI MANUFACTURER. THE VEHICLE IS NOW SHUDDERING ON AN ALMOST CONSTANT BASIS WITH NO EXPLANATION OR HELP FROM THE DEALER/MANUFACTURER AND HE HAS ALMOST BEEN IN SEVERAL ACCIDENTS DUE TO THIS.

I BOUGHT A BRAND NEW 2015 OUTLANDER SPORT SE ON THIS PAST FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015. ON THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY I NOTICED IT WAS JERKING BUT AT THAT TIME I DIDN'T PINPOINT WHEN IT WAS HAPPENING. THE VEHICLE HAD LESS THEN 100 MILES ON IT. TODAY, AUGUST 19, 2015 I FIGURED OUT IT IS HAPPENING ANY TIME I AM TRAVELING AT 15-20 MPH. I ALERTED MY SALESMEN AND TOLD HIM I THOUGHT SOMETHING WAS WRONG. HE TOLD ME HE WAS TOLD THAT IT HAPPENS AT SLOW SPEEDS BECAUSE THE CVT CAN'T DECIDE WHICH GEAR TO BE IN. HE SAID IF I SPEED UP IT WILL STOP. WELL,THE ROAD OUTSIDE OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD IS A SCHOOL ZONE. I CAN'T JUST SPEED UP! SO, IF HE IS RIGHT, EVERY MORNING I CAN LOOK FORWARD TO JERKING A STUDDERING MY WAY DOWN THE STREET. IT'S AWFUL! IT'S LIKE YOU'RE DRIVING A 5 SPEED AND FORGET TO HIT THE CLUTCH AND CHANGE GEARS. THAT JERKING AND STUDDERING. HOW ON EARTH CAN THESE CARS BE ALLOWED ON THE ROAD LIKE THIS? I AM CONFIDENT THIS LITTLE BY PRODUCT OF THE CVT WILL SOON BE CAUSING ACCIDENTS.

I JUST BOUGHT MY FIRST BRAND NEW CAR JUNE 6, 2015. I HAVE ONLY MADE 1 CAR PAYMENT AND ON 7/23/15 I GO TO GET IN MY CAR AND IT WILL NOT START HAD SEVERAL MESSAGES ON THE DASH SO LOOKED IN THE MANUAL AND IT SAID CALL DEALERSHIP AND I DID. AFTER CALLING THEM 5 TIMES IN A ROW THE OWNER ANSWERED AND I EXPLAINED WHAT THE CAR WAS READING AND THAT IT WOULDN'T START SO HE SAID HIM AND A MECHANIC WOULD BE THERE IN A MINUTE. I ONLY WORK 5 MINS.AWAY. THEY ARRIVED AND SAID THEY HAD NEVER SEEN THAT DISPLAYED BEFORE. MECHANIC TOOK A LOOK AT IT AND PLAYED WITH THE WIRING FOR ABOUT 20 MINS AND IT STARTED THEY SAID IF IT DOES IT AGAIN BRING IT IN AND THEY WOULD TAKE CARE OF IT. BUT THE NEXT MORNING I DROVE TO THE DEALERSHIP AND TOLD THEM TO CHECK IT OUT AND GO AHEAD AND DO MY 1000 MILES SERVICE CHECK SINCE I WAS AT 982 MILES. NO PROBLEM WE WILL HAVE IT READY LATER TODAY, NEVER HEARD FROM THEM SO THE FOLLOWING MONDAY MY HUSBAND CALLED AND THEY TOLD HIM IT WAS THE TRANSMISSION AND THEY WERE TRYING TO GET ME A NEW ONE PUT IN BUT WAITING ON APPROVAL, THEY GOT THE APPROVAL AND PUT IN A BRAND NEW TRANSMISSION SO THEY SAID. AUG. 5, 2015 STILL HADN'T HEARD ANYTHING SO MY HUSBAND CALLED AGAIN AND IT WAS READY SO HE WENT AND PICKED UP MY CAR. IT HAD 1100 MILES ON IT AND 1/2 TANK OF GAS SO THEY HAD PUT 117 MILES ON MY CAR. 8/6/15 IT STARTED DRIVING KIND OF ROUGH, NOT WANTING TO EXHILARATE AND MAKING A SQUEALING NOISE FROM TIME TO TIME. SO ON 8/11/15 I HAD TO TAKE MY CAR BACK UP TO THE DEALERSHIP FOR THEM TO CHECK IT OUT. THEY WERE GOING TO KEEP IT OVER NIGHT AND CALL US IN THE MORNING. THEY HAD NO LOANER CARS TO GIVE US THIS TIME SO WE HAD TO GO TO ENTERPRISE AND PAY $50.00 DEPOSIT AND MAKE SURE THE CAR IS FULL WHEN WE RETURN IT.

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.

TO MAKE A VERY LONG STORY SHORT I WAS AT A STOP LIGHT AND PRESSED THE GAS TO GO AND MY CAR WENT FORWARD THEN IT JUST STOPPED IT SEEMED LIKE IT WASN'T GETTING ENOUGH GAS - I PRESSED THE GAS PEDDLE FRANTICALLY BECAUSE I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF AN INTERSECTION AND ALMOST GOT HIT. IT HAPPENED AGAIN IN MARCH - I FINALLY GOT THE DEALERSHIP TO TAKE MY CAR FOR A FEW DAYS THEY PUT A RECORDING DEVICE IN IT AND DROVE IT - THEY KEPT IT FOR OVER 30 DAYS AND IT FINALLY DID THE SAME THING TO THE MECHANIC THAT WAS DRIVING IT - THEY TOOK THE RECORDING INFORMATION AND SENT IT TO THE ENGINEERS AT THE MANUFACTURE AND TOLD ME THAT IT WAS THE INHIBITOR SWITCH - THEY REPLACED IT ON 4.21.15 AND ON 4.26.15 MY CAR DID THE SAME THING AGAIN - THIS TIME THE CAR THAT ALMOST HIT ME PULLED OVER I EXPLAINED TO HIM WHAT WAS HAPPENING WITH MY CAR - I GOT HIS NAME AND # JUST IN CASE. I FILED A COMPLAINT WITH THE BBB AND WITH THE ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE - THEY CALLED ME AND GAVE ME THE PHONE NUMBER TO A LEMON LAW LAWYER WHO NOW IS HANDLING MY CASE. MY BRAND NEW CAR STILL ISN'T FIXED - I HAVE HEARD THAT THERE IS ANOTHER 2015 OUTLANDER SPORT IN FLORIDA DOING THE SAME THING. I HAVE LOOKED ON THE MANUFACTURE'S WEBSITE TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCING THE SAME ISSUE OR IF THERE WERE ANY RECALLS ON MY NEW CAR AND FOUND NOTHING. I'M SO GLAD I CAME TO THIS WEBSITE AND FOUND OUT THAT THERE ARE MORE THAN JUST 2 NEW 2015 OUTLANDER SPORTS HAVING THE SAME ISSUE. I TALKED TO AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE WHO HAS BEEN A MECHANIC FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND HE TOLD ME THAT IT MIGHT BE THE MAP SENSOR- MANIFOLD ABSOLUTE PRESSER OR THE KNOCK SENSOR.

TWO TIMES I HAVE EXPERIENCED ENGINE HESITATION IN THE 2015 OUTLANDER SPORT. FIRST TIME WAS STARTING FROM A STOP LIGHT, THE MOTOR WOULD NOT MOVE THE CAR THEN IT JERKED INTO GEAR, THE SECOND TIME IT HAPPENED I WAS MAKING A SLOW TURN TO THE RIGHT WHEN THE MOTOR DID THE SAME THING. I HAVE READ OTHERS ON THIS SITE WITH THE SAME ISSUES. I PLAN ON TAKING IT IN TO GET IT CHECKED BUT I AM NOW CONCERNED SINCE OTHERS ARE HAVING THIS SAME ISSUE. IT RIDES GREAT ON ALL OTHER OCCASIONS SO I AM NOT SURE WHY IT DID IT..I THOUGHT MAYBE BAD GAS BUT IT IS NOT. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2015 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER SPORT. THE CONTACT STATED THE VEHICLE FAILED TO ACCELERATE FROM AN IDLE POSITION. WHEN THE VEHICLE RESUMED NORMAL OPERATION, IT HESITATED AND JERKED FORWARD. THE CONTACT WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER ON TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS. THE DEALER WAS UNABLE TO DUPLICATE THE FAILURE. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 162.