Mitsubishi ASX, Lancer/Lancer Sportback

The risk

Unwanted soot / carbon deposits on the piston rings might cause the piston rings to get stuck in the piston groove. As a result, this can cause increased blow-by gas to directly enter the crank case which in turn may cause the piston to overheat and melt. As a consequence, the engine may stall.

Product: Passenger Car; Model Year: 2011-2012 (5);Production period: Until 9 February 2012.

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · official text, unchanged

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other Category of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users Date of entry into force: Unknown

Models on CarsLore

The alert names these models; open one for its complaints, recalls in other countries and inspection results.

• Mitsubishi ASX
• Mitsubishi Lancer
• Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback

Other injuries alerts in 2014

179 of the 198 motor vehicle alerts published in 2014 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2014

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2014

Other recalls for the same models

The same models in recall campaigns from NHTSA, Transport Canada, the EU Safety Gate and the Dutch RDW.

All recalls for this model: Mitsubishi ASX

More Mitsubishi alerts

84 EU Safety Gate alerts for Mitsubishi since 2006; the most were issued in 2018 (15).

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