Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | |||
| 11/11/2010 | 5000 | ||
| Many times but sporatically over the last two years my mazda 3, when coming to a stop and foot firmly on the brake will have a sudden surge in rpm between 1200-2500 rpm and try to accelerate. seems to happen most often first thing in the morning more often. because i am contantly ready there has been no crash, though the time rpms reached 2500 i had difficulty stopping the car, on a freeway on ramp where sudden deceleration was needed. i have found that one pump of the break alleviates the problem if there is room to do so. | |||
| 06/17/2010 | 600 | ||
| Tl*the contact owns a 2010 mazda3. the contact stated that while the vehicle was idle, it would lunge forward and the rpms would increase. the failure occurred intermittently. the contact was forced to push the shut off button to stop the vehicle from moving forward. the vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer who could not duplicate the failure. the vehicle was not repaired. the manufacturer had not been notified. the vin was unavailable. the current mileage was approximately 14,000. the failure mileage was 600. | |||
| 06/17/2010 | 600 | ||
| Tl-the contact owns a 2010 mazda3. the contact stated that while the vehicle was idling, it would lurch forward and the rpms would increase. the failure was intermittent. the contact pushed the shut off button to stop the vehicle from moving forward. the vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer who could not duplicate the failure. the vehicle had not been repaired. the manufacturer had not been notified. the vin was unavailable. the current mileage was approximately 14,000. the failure mileage was 600-bk | |||
| 10/29/2010 | 4500 | ||
| Cruise control turns off when going down hills, even small ones. i use my cruise control daily and my drive to work contains many small hills. when cruising at 70, i go down a hill. the cruise control backs off then at the bottom of the hill, it fails to engage. once i have drifted from 70 mph down to 60 mph, it turns itself off. i've had my car 2 months and this has happened 11 times now. the dealership claims there isn't anything wrong and the only way it can turn itself off is if i touch the brake or the clutch. i am doing neither. when on a busy highway, and this begins to happen, the people behind you get very angry. beside the fact i have begun slowing down without my brake lights coming on. there are others with the same problem here http://mazda3revolution.com/forums/2010-mazdaspeed-3-news-discussion/2758-anyone-having-cruise-control-issues.html | |||
| 06/03/2010 | 1800 | ||
| I was stopped with the car running in drive and stepping on the brake pedal only, when the engine began revving uncontrollably. this resulted in increasingly high rpms, and it felt as if the car was about to lurch forward. i ended up turning off the car, and re-starting it. this is an intermittent problem that has happened a total of 3 times, each time while in a stopped position. i purchased the car the end of march 2010. first occurrance happened prior to 6/3/10, and the third, most recent occurrance, happened on 8/26/10. mazda has installed a data recorder to attempt to record the problem, but now they want to remove it before the problem has re-occurred. | |||