Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC | |||
| 05/12/2011 | 45000 | ||
| Lamp sockets for both left and right side brake lights burnt out at 5 years, 2 months with less than 50,000 miles. if one side went out i'd call it a manufacturer defect. both sides,...seems more like an engineering problem. only the contact for the brake side of the 2057 lamp was melted and recessed. the tail lamp side of the socket is still clean. put in a gm replacement socket which looks better made than the oem. just glad the wife did not get rear-ended. hung onto the old sockets just in case someone might be interested in looking at them. lots of tailgaters in my state, so brake lights are important here. | |||
| 08/15/2007 | 2 | ||
| At about 6000 miles my brakes began to squeak. the dealer replaced the rear pads. the brakes still squeaked. the dealer replaced the front pads, saying they had found a service bulletin which addressed the problem. for a short time the brakes were ok, but now (at 11000 miles) are squeaking again. i am trying to determine if there are others with the same problem or if there is in fact a recall/bulletin before i go back to the dealer and/or mitsubishi motors. *jb | |||
| 11/01/2006 | 16945 | 5 | 09/26/2006 |
| Problems with the brakes on 2006 mitsubishi galant. the brakes were squeaking so i took it into the shop. they said they replaced the brakes pads this was at 16945 miles, again at 22380 miles, replace back brakes at 23403 now the brakes are gone again at 28552. they told me that it was just brake dust and no problem with the brakes but in less then 3 weeks the brakes are down metal to metal. *jb | |||
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC - ANTILOCK | |||
| 11/21/2007 | 8800 | 1 | 03/24/2006 |
| I have a 2006 mitsubishi galant and have had it in the shop repeatedly for the front suspension, brakes, electrical problems and now i'm having transmission problems and lots of engine noise. my front suspension has a squawking sound everytime you go over a speed bump, the whole front end has been rebuilt but it is still doing the same thing. this started at about 8,800 miles and there is now 23,000 and the dealership is telling me there is nothing wrong my brakes have been squeaking since about 8,800 miles also and they have replaced my front pads since there was a tech bulletin placed and yet this has still not fixed the squeaking. my engine idle fluctuates while sitting in drive and my engine has a loud start up sound almost like there is an exhaust leak but there is not. my transmission when first shifted into reverse stutters as i pull out of my driveway and when in drive you can feel the transmission stutter as long as the car is cold. my car also pulls to left within 4 seconds after not holding the steering wheel extremely tight and this started after they replaced the rack-in-pinion. i have a metal rattling sound coming from the front driver's side of the vehicle but when it is taken into the dealership they state that they could not produce the concern. yet they have heard it before and had to replace all the springs and pins in the brakes. my tires have worn down dramatically on the outsides even though the correct amount of tire pressure is in the tires. there has not been a time when i have ever been less than 3 lbs under pressure. *tr | |||