Recall Register

Mazda 323: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the Mazda 323, model years 1986 to 1995. NHTSA has 163 complaints on file for this model line. 7 of the 10 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19860
  2. 19870
  3. 19881
  4. 19891
  5. 19902
  6. 19912
  7. 19922
  8. 19932
  9. 19942
  10. 19951
Mazda 323: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1995 Mazda 323 NHTSA page1425%1,368,500
1994 Mazda 32321167%1,502,500
1993 Mazda 32321061%1,502,500
1992 Mazda 32321592%1,502,500
1991 Mazda 323220123%1,502,500
1990 Mazda 323219117%1,502,500
1989 Mazda 323138233%360,433
1988 Mazda 323134209%360,433
1987 Mazda 323 NHTSA page0849%
1986 Mazda 323 NHTSA page0425%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

204 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Mazda 323: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Seat Belts544.1111
Engine and Engine Cooling112.723
Power Train78.416
Electrical System29.46
Suspension29.46
Steering24.55
Service Brakes, Hydraulic24.55
Fuel System, Gasoline24.55
Vehicle Speed Control24.55
Visibility14.73

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mazda 323, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1995, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Mazda 323, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 66 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mazda: all 39 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mazda 323: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mazda/323/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
MAZDA (NORTH AMERICA),INC

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Mazda 323 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1994 with 2, 1993 with 2, 1992 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mazda 323 model year has the most complaints?
The 1989 model year, with 38 of the 163 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mazda 323 name?
Seat Belts: 544.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 112.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 78.4 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mazda 323?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.