Recall Register

Mazda MX6: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 5 recall campaigns for the Mazda MX6, model years 1986 to 1989. NHTSA has 47 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 4 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. 19885
  4. 19891
Mazda MX6: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1989 Mazda MX6128238%360,433
1988 Mazda MX6516136%482,391
1987 Mazda MX6 NHTSA page019%
1986 Mazda MX6 NHTSA page0217%

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

61 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 MX6: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Seat Belts426.226
Seats131.18
Electrical System65.64
Visibility65.64
Structure65.64
Engine and Engine Cooling65.64
Vehicle Speed Control49.23
Equipment49.23
Fuel System, Gasoline16.41
Power Train16.41

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mazda MX6, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1995, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Mazda MX6, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 23 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mazda: all 39 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mazda MX6: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mazda/mx6/. 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 MX6 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1988 with 5, 1989 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mazda MX6 model year has the most complaints?
The 1989 model year, with 28 of the 47 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mazda MX6 name?
Seat Belts: 426.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Seats: 131.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 65.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mazda MX6?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.