Consumer Complaint Detail

MITSUBISHI / 3000GT / 1993

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Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 0000082039 Incident Date: Jan, 01 1970
Consumer's City: WETHERSFIELD Consumer's State: CT
Vehicle Transmission Type: MAN Manufacturers Name: Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc.
Model Name: 3000GT Model Year: 1993
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Power train:manual transmission
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: JA3BN74K3PY Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: Apr, 06 1999 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Apr, 30 1998
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 0 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: The original transmission failed while the original owner had the car, it was replaced under warranty at 61,268 miles. since then i bought the car used at about 72k miles, and again the transmition is failing. it seems to be a very common problem for the syncros on the transmition to go bad , causing grinding when shifting into second gear. mitsubishi (or anyone else) offers no replacement parts for this transmition. they consider it one part, the whole getrag transmission is a $5000 replacement part. i called mitsubishi and they said the 61,268 mile replacement was warrantied for only 12 months or 12k miles. i feel it is very wrong that they put a transmition in the car that only last about 15,000 miles. there should be a recall on all mitsubishi manual transmitions due to excessive failure rates. *ak