Mitsubishi Lancer. Published by Transport Canada as 2018166 on 6 April 2018. System: Airbag.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the passenger frontal airbag inflator could produce excessive internal pressure during airbag deployment. Increased pressure may cause the inflator to rupture, which could allow fragments to be propelled toward vehicle occupants, increasing the risk of injury. This could also damage the airbag …
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Mitsubishi LANCER in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Mitsubishi LANCER is named on 7 American notices, 14 British, 12 European and 19 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
The European register
The Israeli register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2018166
- Recall date
- 6 April 2018
- Make
- Mitsubishi
- Models
- Lancer
- Model years
- 2004 to 2006
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Airbag
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 3,172
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the passenger frontal airbag inflator could produce excessive internal pressure during airbag deployment. Increased pressure may cause the inflator to rupture, which could allow fragments to be propelled toward vehicle occupants, increasing the risk of injury. This could also damage the airbag module, which could prevent proper deployment. Failure of the passenger airbag to fully deploy during a crash (where deployment is warranted) could increase the risk of personal injury to the seat occupant. Correction: Dealers will replace the passenger side frontal airbag inflator with a new, non-ammonium-nitrate-based inflator. Note: This campaign supersedes recall 2015-236 and involves vehicles that previously received an inflator under that recall.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2018166.
Mitsubishi elsewhere in this register
Mitsubishi is named on 99 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2018083 · 12 February 2018 · RVR · Visual System
- 2018052 · 26 January 2018 · Outlander, Lancer Sportback, Lancer · Electrical
- 2018053 · 26 January 2018 · RVR, Outlander · Brakes
- 2018054 · 26 January 2018 · Outlander, Lancer, Lancer Evolution · Accessories
- 2018507 · 14 September 2018 · Outlander, Eclipse Cross, RVR · Other
- 2018508 · 14 September 2018 · Outlander, RVR, Outlander PHEV · Other
- 2018588 · 26 October 2018 · Lancer Evolution, Lancer Sportback, Lancer · Visual System
- 2018589 · 26 October 2018 · Outlander · Electrical
The same system: Airbag
734 notices in this register name Airbag. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2018173 · 11 April 2018 · Elantra, Elantra Touring · Airbag
- 2018192 · 18 April 2018 · Passat · Airbag
- 2018111 · 6 March 2018 · Passat, CC, Eos · Airbag
- 2018245 · 9 May 2018 · Cascadia · Airbag
- 2018261 · 15 May 2018 · Sonata · Airbag
- 2018279 · 25 May 2018 · Terrain · Airbag
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Mitsubishi: 99 in the register, and 704 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2018.
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