1998 Mitsubishi Montero defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1998 Mitsubishi Montero. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• REAR FOLDING SEAT DISENGAGEMENT
  Preliminary Evaluation PE98042 · opened Jul 31, 1998 · closed Sep 3, 1998 · led to recall 98V205000

  A police report received by odi alleged that disengagement of the right rear folding seat during a single vehicle rollover incident permitted its occupant to be ejected