Recall · 21V162000
Mazda North American Operations recalled the MAZDA B-Series Truck over air bags
5,847
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
March 10, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2007-2009 B-Series pickup trucks. The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures, and high temperature cycling.
- What it can cause
- An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
- What the dealer does
- Mazda will notify owners, and dealers will replace the driver-side air bag inflator with an alternate one, free of charge. Owners were notified of the safety risk with an interim letter mailed April 26, 2021. A second letter was sent December 2021. Owners may contact Mazda customer service at 1-800-222-5500 option 4. Mazda's number for this recall is 4821C.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| MazdaB-Series Truck | 2007 to 2009 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 5,847 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 76% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2007 to 2009, so the oldest vehicles on it were 14 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mazda vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 28 times before this, most recently in October 2019 as 19V782000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 48 complaints with NHTSA, 43 of them before this campaign was filed. 45 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in April 2007, 13 years before this filing.
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Mazda North American Operations with NHTSA on March 10, 2021 as campaign 21V162000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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