Bought the car new in April 2016. It had about 7 miles on it.

No issues until about a week before it did not want to go into drive from the parked position. Then the following Friday 9/20/2024 it started "bumping" like I ran over something in the road. The next day the "bumping" got worse and It did not want to accelerate and the RPMs were jumping from 2 to 4 when going down the road and up slight hills. It was hesitating. Took it to the dealer immediately on 9/23/24 to have it checked. High Point Mitsubishi (soon to be Carolina Mitsubishi) stated I needed a new transmission. At 118k miles for a car that is appalling! For a total of $7100 to replace with a new one. I am researching this as it is totally unacceptable on a SUV of this age and mileage. There is no towing package on the car either.

Jatco USA, Inc CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) failures.

This has a design flaw that will cost the consumer for proper maintenance all the way to an expensive replacement cost. Jatco recommends changing the transmission filter and fluid every 30,000 miles at the consumer expense of $200 to $300. The design of this transmission is a metal belt rolling across 2 opposing size pulleys. The wear on the pulleys and the belt will lead to the transmission slipping due to the belt wearing down and causing metal shavings to clog the filter and eventually become magnetized to the magnet at the bottom of the transmission pan. Vehicle owners with this type of transmission have reported slippage, failure and replacement of the transmission as early as 20,000 miles.

When this transmission belt will break and fail, the vehicle will come to a dead stop and have steering problems with front wheel drive vehicles. The vehicle will subject to a rear end collision, which will cause severe injury or death.

I have contacted Mitsubishi Motors North America, and the Walker Automotive Group of Alexandria, LA to take responsibility for repairing this defect. Both have responded by saying they are not responsible and that I am responsible for the $9,400 to replace the transmission because this vehicle has 103,000 miles on it.

I have contacted several transmission shops about this transmission and all have stated that this transmission has only lasted on some vehicles for 3 to 5 years, is more expensive to rebuild than it is to replace, and is the most problematic transmission in the auto industry. Non of the technicians had anything good to say about this type of transmission.

The transmission manufacturer, Jatco USA, Inc, the company that makes the transmission has a number of manufacturers who are being sued, are having to extend the transmission warranties, and are involved in joint replacement expenses with manufacturers of vehicles with their transmission in them. Nissan, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Ford, Chrysler, Mercedes, Toyota, and Honda have this transmission built for them by Jatco. Nissan has the most recalls and complaints against them.