Mitsubishi Outlander, Mitsubishi Outlander Phev, model years 2014 to 2022. Filed by Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 20 April 2026. 108,046 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) is recalling certain 2018-2022 Outlander PHEV and 2014-2020 Outlander vehicles. The liftgate gas spring cylinders may corrode and lose pressure, which can result in a gas spring cylinder rupture or the liftgate falling unexpectedly.
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-26-001. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V252 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 26V252 cover?
- Mitsubishi Outlander, Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, model years 2014-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) is recalling certain 2018-2022 Outlander PHEV and 2014-2020 Outlander vehicles. The liftgate gas spring cylinders may corrode and lose pressure, which can result in a gas spring cylinder rupture or the liftgate falling unexpectedly.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A gas spring cylinder rupture or a liftgate falling unexpectedly can increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. MMNA will replace the left and right liftgate gas springs, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 17, 2026. Owners may contact MMNA customer service at 1-888-648-7820. MMNA's number for this recall is SR-26-001.
- 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-26-001, 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: “A gas spring cylinder rupture or a liftgate falling unexpectedly can increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V252 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Structure:Body:Hatchback/Liftgate:Support Device/Strut |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 April 2026 |
| Model years | 2014-2022 |
| Vehicles named | MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER, MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER PHEV |
What the notice says today
The defect
Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) is recalling certain 2018-2022 Outlander PHEV and 2014-2020 Outlander vehicles. The liftgate gas spring cylinders may corrode and lose pressure, which can result in a gas spring cylinder rupture or the liftgate falling unexpectedly.
The consequence
A gas spring cylinder rupture or a liftgate falling unexpectedly can increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
MMNA will replace the left and right liftgate gas springs, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 17, 2026. Owners may contact MMNA customer service at 1-888-648-7820. MMNA's number for this recall is SR-26-001. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov June 3, 2026. This recall expands previous NHTSA recall number 25V507.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 692a7094edf22695b7d45a7a7ec8b190…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
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 26V252, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v252/
The copy quoted above hashes to 692a7094edf22695b7d45a7a7ec8b190…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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.
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 26V252 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
35d7b2c0 - Consequence
16ae56cf - 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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