Recall · 21V494000
Mazda North American Operations recalled the MAZDA MAZDA3 over air bags
260,915
Vehicles covered
1
Model
4
Model years
July 1, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
- The defect
- Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2004-2007 Mazda3 vehicles. During air bag deployment, the plastic emblem on the steering wheel air bag module cover may shatter, and project plastic fragments into the vehicle.
- What it can cause
- Plastic fragments can hit occupants during air bag deployment, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the air bag module cover, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed between August 28, 2021 and October 28, 2021. Owners may contact Mazda customer service at 1-800-222-5500 Option 4. Mazda's number for this recall is 4921G.
- 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.nhtsa.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 |
|---|---|---|
| MazdaMAZDA3 | 2004 to 2007 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 260,915 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 96% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2004 to 2007, so the oldest vehicles on it were 17 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mazda vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 29 times before this, most recently in March 2021 as 21V162000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 630 complaints with NHTSA, 603 of them before this campaign was filed. 112 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 2004, 17 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 July 1, 2021 as campaign 21V494000. 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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