Mazda MX-5 Miata: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Mazda MX-5 Miata, model years 1990 to 2005. NHTSA has 265 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 16 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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 2 | 12% | |
| 2004 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 7 | 42% | |
| 2003 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 8 | 48% | |
| 2002 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 14 | 85% | |
| 2001 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 17 | 103% | |
| 2000 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 23 | 139% | |
| 1999 Mazda MX-5 Miata | 0 | 65 | 392% | |
| 1998 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 6% | |
| 1997 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 11 | 66% | |
| 1996 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 18 | 109% | |
| 1995 Mazda MX-5 Miata | 0 | 26 | 157% | |
| 1994 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 10 | 60% | |
| 1993 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 7 | 42% | |
| 1992 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 19 | 115% | |
| 1991 Mazda MX-5 Miata NHTSA page | 0 | 12 | 72% | |
| 1990 Mazda MX-5 Miata | 0 | 25 | 151% |
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
295 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Air Bags | 169.5 | 50 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 111.9 | 33 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 98.3 | 29 |
| Power Train | 91.5 | 27 |
| Electrical System | 84.7 | 25 |
| Fuel System, Gasoline | 67.8 | 20 |
| Structure | 57.6 | 17 |
| Seat Belts | 50.8 | 15 |
| Tires | 47.5 | 14 |
| Exterior Lighting | 40.7 | 12 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- 62618 campaigns
- Tribute20 campaigns
- Protege6 campaigns
- MPV22 campaigns
- B-Series Truck22 campaigns
- Mazda329 campaigns
- RX-814 campaigns
- Mazda628 campaigns
- Millenia0 campaigns
- CX-76 campaigns
- MX-65 campaigns
- 9293 campaigns
- 3233 campaigns
- RX-74 campaigns
- Mazda55 campaigns
- Navajo8 campaigns
- RX73 campaigns
- MX33 campaigns
- Mazda0 campaigns
- MX65 campaigns
- Mazdaspeed35 campaigns
- CX-913 campaigns
- MX-56 campaigns
- Mazdaspeed64 campaigns
- GLC4 campaigns
- CX-58 campaigns
- CX-9011 campaigns
- Miata6 campaigns
- CX-307 campaigns
- CX-34 campaigns
- Mazda24 campaigns
- CX-505 campaigns
- CX-50 Hybrid5 campaigns
- CX-704 campaigns
- RX33 campaigns
- 6162 campaigns
- Tribute Hybrid2 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Mazda MX-5 Miata: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mazda/mx-5-miata/. 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
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 MX-5 Miata model years have the most recall campaigns?
- No model year of this line has a recall campaign in the NHTSA file.
- Which Mazda MX-5 Miata model year has the most complaints?
- The 1999 model year, with 65 of the 265 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Mazda MX-5 Miata name?
- Air Bags: 169.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 111.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 98.3 per 1,000 component mentions.