All generations and engines together · 12,061 MOT tests in the 2025 data · typical mileage at age 7: 55k
Computed from DVSA MOT results, all of Great Britain, 2025. Nothing here is opinion.
Share of tests where each item was recorded. The dark tick is the class average across all tracked models; bars are scaled within each group.
The rows that judge the model rather than its keeper. 7,551 tests in this band.
Tyres, pads and stone chips say more about how the car was driven and maintained than about how it was built.
Owner folklore from forums and the motoring press. Most of it never shows up in an MOT, which is why this section exists at all.
Early cars built between late October 2017 and April 2018 had a software fault in the hydraulic control unit that could stop ABS, electronic stability control, brake auto-hold and automatic emergency braking from working correctly when needed. Mitsubishi issued a free dealer recall to reflash the ECU, and a related recall covered the collision-avoidance system applying the brakes for longer than it should. This lines up with the brakes signature the MOT data flags for this model, though the recall is long closed out on any car that has had it done, so it is the pre-recall cars and any that slipped through that are worth checking.
The CVT automatic on the 1.5 turbo petrol has a persistent reputation for a noisy, rubber-band whine under acceleration, plus reports of jerky or delayed shifts and hesitation pulling away, sometimes mistaken for a turbo fault. Owners on the model forums describe symptoms starting anywhere from 30,000 miles and getting worse by 60,000-100,000 miles, with a full CVT replacement running well into four figures if it comes to that. Mitsubishi has not acknowledged a specific fault, and Honest John's own review flags the CVT's unpleasant whine as a known weak point of the car.
Owners and reviewers regularly criticise the rear end for creaks, clunks and knocks, and for getting unsettled over potholes, cambers and speed bumps, most often traced to sway bar mounts or bushes wearing or deforming. Honest John's review calls out the poor rear suspension directly and notes body lean in corners. It is debated how much of this is a genuine wear fault versus the car's soft, budget-tuned rear axle simply feeling that way from new, so buyers disagree on whether it counts as a fault at all.
The touchscreen and touchpad-controlled infotainment system is widely criticised as fiddly and outdated, and a number of owners report it freezing or rebooting itself while driving, along with sound system faults on early cars. Nothing about this puts the car at risk, but it is a common enough gripe that a dead or slow-to-respond screen at a test drive is not a one-off. Consumer Reports groups this with heater performance and other software gremlins on the earliest 2018-2019 cars specifically.
Some owners report the accelerator pedal is difficult to modulate smoothly in slow traffic, giving a jerky, on-off feel at low speed rather than a fault that worsens with age. Honest John's owner-review coverage flags this as a recurring complaint, but it reads more like a characteristic of the drive-by-wire mapping than a wearing part, and not everyone experiences it the same way. Worth judging for yourself on a test drive in stop-start traffic rather than assuming it needs fixing.
The 1.5 T-MIVEC turbo petrol has scattered reports of uneven or hunting idle speed and, in a smaller number of cases, a stretched timing chain giving a rattle on start-up, generally showing up well past 80,000-100,000 miles on cars that have missed oil changes. It is not a widely documented mass-failure pattern, but combined with the turbo's integrated exhaust manifold making any repair expensive, a healthy idle and a full service history are worth checking closely on this engine.
Built from the two sections above.
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