Recall · 23V837000
Mazda North American Operations recalled the MAZDA B-Series Truck over air bags
12,741
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
December 12, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2004-2006 B-Series vehicles that received replacement front passenger air bag inflators under a previous recall. The replacement front passenger air bag inflators may have been installed incorrectly.
- What it can cause
- An incorrectly installed inflator may not properly inflate the passenger air bag, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and reinstall the front passenger air bag inflator, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 1, 2024. Owners may contact Mazda customer service at 1-800-222-5500 Option 6. Mazda's number for this recall is 6423L.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| MazdaB-Series Truck | 2004 to 2006 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 12,741 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 81% 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 2006, so the oldest vehicles on it were 19 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mazda vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 30 times before this, most recently in July 2021 as 21V494000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 51 complaints with NHTSA, 48 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 2005, 18 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 December 12, 2023 as campaign 23V837000. 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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