Recall Register

Mazda 626: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 18 recall campaigns for the Mazda 626, model years 1979 to 2003. NHTSA has 3,038 complaints on file for this model line. 20 of the 25 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. 19792
  2. 19802
  3. 19812
  4. 19822
  5. 19830
  6. 19840
  7. 19850
  8. 19862
  9. 19871
  10. 19886
  11. 19891
  12. 19901
  13. 19911
  14. 19920
  15. 19931
  16. 19942
  17. 19952
  18. 19962
  19. 19973
  20. 19984
  21. 19992
  22. 20001
  23. 20010
  24. 20020
  25. 20030
Mazda 626: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2003 Mazda 626 NHTSA page076%
2002 Mazda 62607562%
2001 Mazda 6260176145%
2000 Mazda 6261205169%71,000
1999 Mazda 6262303249%102,000
1998 Mazda 6264425350%1,492,500
1997 Mazda 6263347286%1,621,500
1996 Mazda 6262351289%1,581,500
1995 Mazda 6262480395%1,581,500
1994 Mazda 6262281231%1,408,500
1993 Mazda 6261121100%1,368,500
1992 Mazda 626 NHTSA page01815%
1991 Mazda 62616251%244,000
1990 Mazda 62614436%244,000
1989 Mazda 62614235%244,000
1988 Mazda 62664537%408,768
1987 Mazda 62612924%102,548
1986 Mazda 62621613%139,219
1985 Mazda 626 NHTSA page065%
1984 Mazda 626 NHTSA page032%
1983 Mazda 626 NHTSA page022%
1982 Mazda 626200%368,899
1981 Mazda 626200%368,899
1980 Mazda 626200%368,899
1979 Mazda 626200%368,899

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

3,747 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 626: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train5382,016
Engine and Engine Cooling100.9378
Air Bags61.1229
Electrical System45.6171
Seat Belts40.8153
Service Brakes, Hydraulic39.2147
Vehicle Speed Control2075
Unknown or Other19.774
Suspension19.272
Equipment15.558

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mazda 626, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1998, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mazda 626, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2003, with 352 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mazda: all 38 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mazda 626: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mazda/626/. 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
29 Mar 2018
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 626 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1988 with 6, 1998 with 4, 1997 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mazda 626 model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 480 of the 3,038 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mazda 626 name?
Power Train: 538 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 100.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 61.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mazda 626?
8 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.