USA RECALL - Mazda expands it's recall notice over the Takata air-bags to now cover over 370,000 units

Mazda Safety Recall 9015L expands the affected vehicle population for Takata passenger air bag inflator to all 2003-2008 MY Mazda6 and all 2006-2007 MY Mazdaspeed6 vehicles nationwide. In addition, this recall also includes the following models:

• All Mazda6 and RX-8 vehicles not repaired under recalls 6913D and 7714
• Mazda6 VINs not repaired under recall 8114L

Approximately 374,500 vehicles are affected in Safety Recall 9015L.

There have been no reports of accidents on the vehicles subject to this recall.

Below is a summary of Mazda models with a passenger- and/or driver-side front Takata air bag inflator currently being recalled.

Total Number of Driver’s frontal air bag inflator - 442,266

Total Number of Passenger’s frontal air bag inflator - 416,475

2003-2008 MY Mazda6

2006-2007 MY Mazdaspeed6

2004-2008 MY RX-8 (All Driver-side / Certain Passenger-side)

2004 MY MPV (Certain Vins only. Click here to see if your vehicle is included)

2004-2006 MY B-Series

Mazda North American Operations is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and oversees the sales, marketing, parts and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States and Mexico through more than 700 dealers. Operations in Mexico are managed by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City.

Mazda to take action over airbag deployment issues.

Mazda North American Operations has notified NHTSA that it plans to voluntarily implement a Special Service Program in limited regions of the United States as a result of several field reports regarding airbag deployments for a variety of vehicle brands equipped with air bag inflators supplied by Takata Corporation and TK Holdings, Inc. On certain vehicles, the air bag may not deploy properly in the event of an accident.

Approximately 34,600 vehicles that were originally sold or are currently registered in Florida, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico are affected.

There is insufficient information at this time to determine the cause of these incidents or if they are related to a safety defect, but Mazda is working with the supplier and NHTSA to investigate these incidents as quickly as possible. 

Mazda has determined that the subject vehicles of the SSP are certain model years of the Mazda6, Mazdaspeed6, RX-8, and MPV, which are equipped with similar types of airbag inflators. 

Specifically the vehicles are identified as:

            2003-2007 MY Mazda6 built from October 4, 2002, through July 31, 2007

            2004-2008 MY RX-8 built from April 23, 2003, through July 26, 2007

            2006-2007 MY Mazdaspeed6 built from August 25, 2005, through June 28, 2007

            2004 MY MPV built from August 21, 2003, through July 28, 2004

Mazda has received one report of a driver injury during airbag deployment.

Owners of record will be notified of this issue and instructed to take their vehicles to a Mazda dealer to replace the air bag inflator with a new one. The work will be performed by Mazda authorized dealers, free of charge to the vehicle owners.

The expected dates for mailing owner notification letters and providing notification to dealers are currently undecided.  It will depend on the availability of replacement parts from the supplier.