Have a 2.4 SE 4WD here, after 8 months of ownership and about 12k miles, I'll leave a few thoughts here:

The Good

• The 4wd system seems to handle pretty well, I enjoy the 4wd lock where it powers primarily the rear wheels. It goes over pretty rough roads with decent handling characteristics.
• The climate control ... works, the cabin air filter was easy enough to change.
• I enjoy the 7500 mile maintenance cycle.
• Tested the front bumper the hard way, it's sturdy as heck.
• Drives pretty well, there's fairly good headroom front and back.
• 168 hp does actually seem to be like enough power, even when loaded. Note the comment about no-towing, however, in the lower section.

The Neutral...ish Or Minor Problems

• The interior shows some fit and finish problems. Never before in another car have I seen so much loose fabric, uncovered corners. I didn't buy a car to be pretty and I don't have any serious complaints about the interior assembly, so there's that.
• The climate control is mostly all over the place. I shouldn't have to constantly adjust the temperature, but occasionally I have to set a different temperature to get the same air temperature in the cabin.
• Paint on the bumper is so weak - it scratches more easily than one might imagine. Although I may have been spoiled by extremely thick BMW paint jobs in the past.
• The fabric used in the trunk area really, really attracts and holds onto my dog's hair. Forever.
• Really strange accessory (hooks, tiedown locations) in the trunk area. Also the pre-moulded guides for the cover are just odd and intrusive into the cargo area.

The Ugly as Heck and Really Stupid

• The bluetooth is poorly implemented. Every other week it'll randomly cut out mid-song, which will cause the whole unit to stop functioning and forget that it even has bluetooth. Furthermore, there is no way to soft-reset the head unit, I have to pull off on the side of the road, turn the car off, then turn the car back on in order to resume listening to music.
• The "AUX" setting on the radio fooled me when I bought the car. There is no AUX jack. In fact, there is nothing AUX about the audio. There's nothing to plug in - it will play no sound. Seriously, why.
• Assembly issue: whenever I step on the brakes while the vehicle is parked, for example, to start the car, there is an audible click somewhere in the center console - I'm afraid to figure out what it is. Someone took a nap on the assembly line the day my car got put together.
• The design of the air-box (housing for the air filter) is the most maddening design I've ever seen in an airbox. There is no space for the airbox to actually come apart. Gosh knows how many Outlander Sports are running around out there right now with improperly installed air filters that leak on the bottom side that does not come apart. Trying to squeeze aftermarket filters with rubber gaskets requires some disassembly of the vehicle in order to get the halves of the airbox apart.
• No towing - why did I even bother getting a crossover? Same engine and JATCO transmission as the Outlander that can tow. Makes you wonder what's up with that.
• OEM tires sssuuuccckkkkk. They started turning brown a month out of the dealership. I'm not particularly fond of the rubber compound either. Get a real tire to put on this car seriously.

Overall, 2.5 out of 5 stars. Nice try, but there are a lot of stupid-obvious areas for improvement. This was the cheapest 4wd crossover I found on the market and it shows. I will say that it is not horrible, and depending on what a person is looking for I might even recommend it to some. There's a lot that Mitsubishi got wrong here and some horrifically bad engineering, but overall the vehicle seems mediocre and will work if you're looking for no-frills 4wd in something slightly bigger than a car. For most, I would recommend test driving the normal Outlander as well as that extra space you get in the Outlander would have proved invaluable with my dog - although the handling characteristics for daily driving on the shorter sport are a little bit better.

 

hi, sorry for the question in this thread. Do you have this touchscreen model? https://ymimg1.b8cdn.com/system/uplo...jpg?1486965624

I need to know the exact number model of this thing, can you check in the info please? I need to resolve a problem with my local dealer, I think they want to screw me.

 

Yes, that looks like my unit.

 

can you check the version in the info please?

 

Our 2017 Outlander is a wonderful car, we upgraded from a 2000 Mitsu Monterro Sport to get all the bells and whistles plus the nav screen. Today my wife wanted to vacuum the car out and came to me with a request, "How do I listen to the radio with the engine off?" A search of the car's Owner's Manual had nothing on this so I went online and got many suggestions, none of which worked. One suggestion was to leave the vehicle in neutral and turn the engine off with the radio on, this worked for some but not others and not for me. More online searches produced no solution. Frustrated, I went back to the car while my wife was vacuuming, got in the driver's seat, started the vehicle in Park with the emergency brake on, tuned the radio to her station, put the vehicle in Drive and turned the engine off, the radio continued to play! She vacuumed a good 30 minutes and came in and said it played the whole time until she put the car back in Park and shut the engine off.
Hope this helps someone out there, Mitsu missed this little trick in their manual and also in their online forums that I searched. Good luck with your model.