Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIRES | |||
| 05/15/2006 | 61000 | 1 | |
| Beginning in 2006, my 2003 mazda 6 would randomly experience power failure while driving. this was both scary and dangerous. i would be driving, the car would completely loose power with no warning and all the lights on the dashboard would come on. i would have to pull over, turn my car off and back on, and then it would work fine till it randomly happened again. obviously loosing power at a high speed is extremely dangerous for both myself and the other drivers. i took it to the dealership many times and they were never able to determine a cause. i brought my car to the dealership over 10 times for this behavior. finally in august 2008, i was reading on a mazda message board that this behavior is caused by a bad throttle body. there was even a mazda service bulletin issued for it in 2006 (bulletins 01-016/06 last issued may 18, 2006). i called the dealership, had the throttle body replaced and have not experienced this behavior since. the service bulletin had serial numbers of bad throttle bodies listed on it, mine was one of them. i believe that this should be a mazda recall, not just a service bulletin, as dealerships do not even seem to be aware of the problem and it the car is extremely dangerous if the throttle body fails. *tr | |||
| 12/01/2003 | 2300 | 1 | 09/01/2003 |
| While driving at 45mph consumer's vehicle was hit from behind, causing it to rear end another vehicle. upon impact, both frontal air bags did not deploy. driver sustained minor injuries. *ak prior to accident, left front tire kept loosing air. dealer re-beaded it but didn't found anything wrong with the tire. dealer told consumer to come back if tires still losses air. *la | |||
| 11/10/2003 | 1 | ||
| Rear driver's side tire blew out while driving at 60 mph. the rear inner side came out, consumer lost control of the vehicle, and vehicle ended on the shoulder of highway. michelin radial xse, p205/60r16-914 , dot# unknown. *ak | |||
| TIRES - TREAD/BELT | |||
| 12/22/2007 | 1 | ||
| Tire tread separation of cooper cs4 touring 215/50r17 91v high speed radial. dot 3d6a clt 520/a/a. while driving on the interstate highway at approximately 70 mph a slapping sound developed. subsequent stops and checks revealed the tread was separating on the outside edge of the right front tire. loose rubber knocked holes in the outer edge of the inner fender well. along the outer edge of the tire i was able to insert my finger up under the tread. this condition had the appearance of the tire being a re-tread instead of a new tire. *tr | |||