2016 Mitsubishi Outlander · symptom sheet
Transmission shudders, slips or shifts hard
- 32owner reports
- 86,000median miles
- $7,400median quote
- 0involved a crash
Newest report Sep 15, 2026 · checked Oct 2, 2026
64 of the 145 complaints on this car are about the transmission and drivetrain. 32 of those describe transmission shudder, which makes it the most reported problem on the 2016 Outlander.
Tick what matches of 32 reports
Transmission shudder on other Outlander years
No other Outlander model year has enough reports of transmission shudder for a sheet of its own. See every Outlander year.
What this problem usually is
This is the biggest drivetrain group on the site: a transmission that shudders, slips, hesitates or bangs into gear. It's the everyday version of transmission trouble, where the car still drives but doesn't drive right, and it has three narrower sheets of its own for jerking, hesitation and slipping.
What got replaced
Owners who name the part that was replaced mention the transmission (4 reports).
Recalls and investigations
One recall on the transmission and drivetrain covers the 2016 model year. A recall on the same system isn't always the same failure, so read the defect text.
The affected vehicles are equipped with a constant velocity transmission (CVT) that, in certain driving conditions, may cause a delay in the vehicle accelerating.
All 8 recalls on the 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander, with the owner complaints on each recalled system
What owners paid
5 of the 32 reports quote a price. Each dot is one quote. The middle half runs $300 to $8,000.
When it happens
The middle half of failures fell between 74,000 and 98,000 miles, from the 19 reports that gave a mileage.
Is this a known problem?
The manufacturer has sent NHTSA 4 service bulletins or notices for the 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander that deal with this problem. Newest first.
Federal rules make a manufacturer send NHTSA a copy of any notice about a defect that goes to more than one dealer or owner. Most of these are service bulletins, the repair instructions manufacturers send to dealers. NHTSA generally leaves safety recall bulletins out of this file, and recalls are listed separately.
Service Manual Revision - This Technical Service Bulletin instructs dealers to diagnose and test drive vehicles exhibiting a shudder or surge condition possibly caused by poor reaction of the hydraulic pressure circuit.
This Technical Service Bulletin was sent to dealers directing them to diagnose and test drive customer vehicles with F1CJC/W1CJC (CVT-8) transmissions that may exhibit a shudder or surge condition possibly caused by a poor reaction of the hydraulic pressure ...
Certain vehicles with F1CJC/W1CJC (CVT-8) transmissions may exhibit a shudder or surge condition possibly caused by poor reaction of the hydraulic pressure circuit.
This is a Technical Service Bulletin, sent to dealers, to provide instructions for diagnosing and test driving vehicles with shudder/surge condition and/or DTC.
What owners wrote
“Delay in the accelerating pedal and hesitation, transmission will chande gear abnormal.Ac went out at same time.”
Filed Jun 16, 2024
“I am having a problem with accelerating while driving. Car starts to jerk or stutter while driving.”
Filed Aug 17, 2023
“The transmission is not working properly. It has a hesitation and causes car to lunge forward.”
Filed Apr 13, 2023
“car go's fast and take off at a hi speed' transmission slips out of gear; and stops' and can't get to go' stop at light car rolls a head' jumps to go and stops and go's slow' and jump's to go”
Filed Sep 18, 2022
Should you keep driving it?
This page can't tell you that. 0 of 32 reports involved a crash. Owners who file are the ones who had a bad experience, and nobody checks their reports. If the problem affects steering, braking, power or a fire risk, treat it as a safety fault and have it inspected before a long or high-speed drive.
File your own report with NHTSA. Complaint counts are how a problem gets an investigation. How reports land on this sheet.
Guide Paid for this repair before a recall covered it? How recall reimbursement works