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Recall · 23V553000

Mazda North American Operations recalled the MAZDA CX-90 over forward collision avoidance

17,600

Vehicles covered

1

Model

1

Model years

August 4, 2023

Filed with NHTSA

FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS:EXTERNAL/PEDESTRIAN ALERT

The defect
Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2024 CX-90 vehicles. Software in the Approaching Vehicle Audible System (AVAS) Information Sound Box (ISB) amplifier may be missing, which can cause inaccurate, external pedestrian warning sounds. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 141, "Minimum Sound Requirements for Hybrid Electric Vehicles."
What it can cause
Inaccurate external warning sounds may confuse pedestrians about the direction of an approaching vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
What the dealer does
Dealers will update the AVAS ISB amplifier software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 18, 2023. Owners may contact Mazda customer service at 1-800-222-5500 Option 6. Mazda's number for this recall is 6123H.
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 .

VehicleModel yearsSafety record
MazdaCX-9020242024

How this campaign compares

At 17,600 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 83% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2024, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2023, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.

Mazda vehicles have been recalled over the forward collision avoidance once before this, most recently in December 2019 as 19V907000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.

This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 332 complaints with NHTSA, 1 of them before this campaign was filed. 36 of those name the forward collision avoidance, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.

The vehicles on this campaign carry 10 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V568000 (electrical system), 24V817000 (electrical system), 24V816000 (electrical system), 24V815000 (power train).

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 August 4, 2023 as campaign 23V553000. 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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