— Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) today submitted its weekly report to the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on the current status of recalls and other improvement measures stemming from past "repair directives," or so-called shiji-kaishu. Today's report is the seventh weekly report submitted by the company.
- Post-market measures for 92 cases related to past repair directives
MMC today submitted recalls for the five additional cases requiring post-market measures reported last week. This finalizes submissions for all 35 cases (33 recalls, 2 improvement measures) requiring post-market measures out of the 92 cases related to past repair directives that came to light as a result of the company's investigations stretching back to December 1993.
MMC has confirmed that vehicles falling under the remaining 47 cases related to merchantability are not affected in terms of safety and the company will decide on what action to take by the end of August.
|
Date submitted |
June 4 |
June 18 |
June 30 |
July 2 |
July 7 |
July 29 |
Recalls
(33) |
No. of submissions
(accumulated) |
1 |
10
(11) |
8
(19) |
1
(20) |
8
(28) |
5
(33) |
No. of models
(accumulated) |
2 |
10
(11) |
10
(15) |
1
(15) |
14
(25) |
11
(26) |
No. of units
(accumulated) |
115 |
50,837
(50,952) |
12,501
(63,453) |
48,718
(112,171) |
53,926
(166,097) |
30,181
(196,278) |
Improvement
measures
(2) |
No. of submissions
(accumulated) |
|
1 |
|
|
1
(2) |
|
No. of models
(accumulated) |
|
1 |
|
|
8
(9) |
|
No. of units
(accumulated) |
|
12 |
|
|
43,504
(43,516) |
|
N.B. No. of units for Japan only
As of July 27, measures had been implemented for 14 percent of registered vehicles for the 30 cases submitted by July 7 (compared to 10.5 percent as of the last report on July 20).
- Current status of expanded investigation
MMC is currently carrying out its investigations as outlined below based on all possible information it can gather.
MMC is investigating approximately 55,000 product information reports it has from April 2001 to find information on defects and decide whether post-market measures need to be taken. The investigations include:
- A reinvestigation into the appropriateness of measures already taken.
- A reinvestigation of cases that were put before the company's meetings on countermeasures for quality issues but were deemed to not require post-market measures.
- A reinvestigation of cases where more than two defects had occurred but the case was not included in meetings on countermeasures for quality issues and post-market measures not carried out.
- A double check to confirm that no important information has been overlooked in the product information reports.
The company is also looking into some 79,000 product information reports issued before March 2001 that it has collected from dealers. MMC has confirmed that no accidents resulting in death have occurred. For cases where two or more incidents of the same defect have occurred, the company in looking into the cause of the defect and considering what action to take.
In addition to technical memos filed at dealers, MMC is checking all related documents it has such as work requisition forms to see if there is any information that may point to the need for recalls or improvement measures.
A detailed analysis of the criteria used to determine the need for post-market measures is now being conducted to ensure there were no mistakes in the checking process. The company plans to file a report with the Business Ethics Committee and make the information public.
