Mitsubishi recalls nearly 200,000 vehicles due to rearview camera issue

Mitsubishi Motors North America is recalling astir 200,000 Outlander and Outlander plug-in hybrid electrical SUVs because of faulty package that could make their rearview cameras malfunction. 

The automaker said successful a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) callback study that nan infotainment strategy wrong complete 198,900 Outlanders from exemplary years 2022-2024 and Outlander PHEV SUVs from exemplary years 2023-2025 could “freeze aliases show a achromatic screen.”

That could origin nan rearview camera image to “be lost” while backing up, which could heighten nan consequence of a clang and make nan perchance affected SUVs retired of compliance pinch a national regularisation astir rear visibility, according to nan NHTSA callback report.

Mitsubishi linked nan problem to “improper package programming” successful nan infotainment system.

The recalled Outlander SUVs were produced betwixt early February 2021 and precocious December 2024, while nan perchance affected Outlander PHEVs were manufactured betwixt precocious September 2022 and April 2025, nan callback study indicated.

The callback “replaces and expands” a anterior callback Mitsubishi issued successful May 2023, according to nan NHTSA.

The rumor astatine nan halfway of nan callback hasn’t led to immoderate known injuries aliases deaths, nan callback study said.

Owners of nan recalled Outlander and Outlander PHEV vehicles will get a missive successful nan message astir nan callback toward nan extremity of June.

They will person instructions to return their vehicle to a dealership, wherever it will reprogram nan in-vehicle infotainment strategy pinch “countermeasure software,” according to nan callback report. The work will not costs customers anything.

“Vehicles antecedently repaired nether callback 23V345 will request to person nan caller remedy completed,” nan NHTSA noted.

“Affected customers will beryllium notified opening later this month, and we would promote anyone receiving a notification to interaction their section Mitsubishi Motors trader partner – it does not request to beryllium nan dealership from wherever nan conveyance was purchased, immoderate Mitsubishi Motors dealership tin assistance – arsenic soon arsenic imaginable upon receipt of nan notification to make an assignment for nan package update to beryllium applied to their vehicle,” a Mitsubishi spokesperson told FOX Business.

In caller months, different automakers person recalled vehicles to reside rearview camera-related problems.

Volvo put immoderate 413,000 vehicles successful nan U.S. nether callback for a problem that could origin nan backup camera image not to show successful early May.

More than 27,800 Polestar 2 electrical vehicles from exemplary years 2021-2025 besides faced a callback past period for “visualization issues” pinch a rearview camera display.

In April, Porsche Cars North America recalled complete 8,500 of its 2024-2025 Macan electrical crossovers, citing issues that could impact backup cameras.

Mitsubishi has a webpage wherever owners tin participate a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) to spot if a conveyance is taxable to a recall.