by Mr Moe on Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:28 pm
Must be bad luck this last week... Went to Local dealer on the Wednesday, since out of the blue i got a SRS airbag light come on in the dash, Apparently there is a fault with some of the vehicles wiring loom for my Triton range that they are aware of. Warranty states to clear the code the first time and then if it happens again, they have to pull pretty much all the interior out of the ute and replace the loom... happy to say the light hasn't come back on again yet...
Then Thursday when i get back from the city from having my ultimate suspension lift installed... yays... i have the recall letter waiting for me about the lower control arms...
So Friday its back to the dealer... and now booked in for the check on Tuesday... followed by tire upgrades on the Wednesday... my Triton seems to be getting a lot of attention lately... haha
What the local dealer told me about the recall...
- It only affects about 1 in every 80 model triton/challenger in the list.
- check only takes half an hour to do.
- Mitsubishi have sent a "special" tool to do the task/check to each dealer, this tool simply measures the thickness of the weld and the distance of it. If it passes... yay.... if it doesn't... new control arms are sent and installed.
- The fault itself, although important, not as drastic as being made out to be, and the car is safe to use for normal driving conditions... they just have to make it out as "worst case scenario" for legal reasons bla bla bla.
- The stupid news... Mistubishi only sent 1 set of control arms to the dealer...i'm out in a country town... can bet your rear that there are lots of utes/4wd's sold out this way, big chance a lot are recent mitsubishi's too... having the letter only for one day out my way... 3 Tritons had been booked in within the day from when i popped in... I'm hoping i aint affected and one of the lucky 1 in 80...