Nearly 160,000 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport recalled
After a number of errors with the drive belt and handbrake, the Japanese car company had to recall nearly 160,000 Mitsubishi Outlander Sports due to a defect in the windshield wiper link.
It's unclear how many Mitsubishi vehicles are sold each year in the US, but it's likely that the company recalls more than that.
In early February, the Japanese automaker recalled 140,000 Lancer, Outlander and Outlander Sport vehicles due to a slippage of the drive belt.
Then it had to recall another 170,000 Outlanders and Outlander Sports for handbrake-related problems (along with 56,000 Lacers for sunroof problems).
Now, the "unlucky" car company has announced a recall of nearly 160,000 cars in the US - all Outlander Sport models from 2011 - 2016. The defect of these cars is due to water leakage between the hood and windshield, which causes the wiper connecting rod to corrode and eventually separate.
Because this can reduce the driver's visibility and cause unfortunate accidents, Mitsubishi is forced to recall the defective cars and replace the wiper linkages, and this recall will begin in April. However, the car company did not mention the issue of repairing the parts that cause water leakage.
The 158,651 recalled vehicles are larger than the 103,686 Mitsubishi vehicles sold in the U.S. last year. The Outlander Sport remains one of the company's best-selling models; about 33,160 of them are more than a third of all Mitsubishi vehicles sold in the U.S.
