Recall Register

Mazda CX-7: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the Mazda CX-7, model years 2007 to 2013. NHTSA has 1,059 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 7 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. 20074
  2. 20084
  3. 20095
  4. 20105
  5. 20114
  6. 20124
  7. 20130
Mazda CX-7: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2013 Mazda CX-7 NHTSA page011%
2012 Mazda CX-743120%494,819
2011 Mazda CX-7413287%620,794
2010 Mazda CX-7514193%691,021
2009 Mazda CX-755939%614,987
2008 Mazda CX-74180119%544,760
2007 Mazda CX-74515340%544,760

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

1,439 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 CX-7: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling183.5264
Air Bags175.1252
Suspension161.2232
Engine126.5182
Power Train5782
Exterior Lighting49.371
Steering4159
Electrical System40.358
Equipment26.438
Unknown or Other2536

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mazda CX-7, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2017, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mazda CX-7, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2017, with 273 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mazda: all 39 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mazda CX-7: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mazda/cx-7/. 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 American Operations

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 CX-7 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2010 with 5, 2009 with 5, 2012 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mazda CX-7 model year has the most complaints?
The 2007 model year, with 515 of the 1,059 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mazda CX-7 name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 183.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 175.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 161.2 per 1,000 component mentions.