Mitsubishi Outlander, model years 2007 to 2009. Filed by Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 12 September 2014. 37,145 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (Mitsubishi) is recalling certain model year 2007-2009 Outlander vehicles manufactured December 15, 2006, to October 31, 2007, and April 16, 2008, to August 22, 2009. In the affected vehicles, the brake light switch may malfunction causing the brake lights to not illuminate during …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Mitsubishi's own number for this recall: SR-14-010. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V564 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 14V564 cover?
- Mitsubishi Outlander, model years 2007-2009.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (Mitsubishi) is recalling certain model year 2007-2009 Outlander vehicles manufactured December 15, 2006, to October 31, 2007, and April 16, 2008, to August 22, 2009.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Brake lights that are inoperative would not warn other drivers that the vehicle is stopping, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Mitsubishi will notify owners, and dealers will replace the brake light switch with a new one, free of charge. The recall began in mid-October 2014. Owners may contact Mitsubishi customer service at 1-888-648-7820. Mitsubishi's number for this recall is SR-14-010.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Mitsubishi calls this recall SR-14-010, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Brake lights that are inoperative would not warn other drivers that the vehicle is stopping, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
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| Campaign | 14V564 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Brake Lights:Switch |
| Reported to NHTSA | 12 September 2014 |
| Model years | 2007-2009 |
| Vehicles named | MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Brake lights that are inoperative would not warn other drivers that the vehicle is stopping, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Mitsubishi will notify owners, and dealers will replace the brake light switch with a new one, free of charge. The recall began in mid-October 2014. Owners may contact Mitsubishi customer service at 1-888-648-7820. Mitsubishi's number for this recall is SR-14-010. Note: This recall is an expansion of recall 08V-680 and does not include any vehicles that were previously recalled.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2014398, recorded 15 September 2014 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on SR14010, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 14V564, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v564/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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- 25V507: 2018-2022 Outlander PHEV and 2014-2020 Outlander
- 25V369: 2022-2024 Outlander and 2023-2025 Outlander PHEV
- 24V887: 2016-2020 FEC52, FEC72, and FEC92
- 23V345: 2022-2023 Outlander and 2023 Outlander PHEV
- 22V563: 2019-2022 Outlander Sport
- 22V470: 2022 Outlander
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The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 14V564 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8c246176 - Consequence
43ac148f - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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