Mazda Protege: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the Mazda Protege, model years 1989 to 2003. NHTSA has 1,070 complaints on file for this model line. 14 of the 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 Mazda Protege | 0 | 117 | 164% | |
| 2002 Mazda Protege | 0 | 98 | 137% | |
| 2001 Mazda Protege | 1 | 49 | 69% | 13,000 |
| 2000 Mazda Protege | 1 | 101 | 142% | 13,000 |
| 1999 Mazda Protege | 1 | 88 | 123% | 23,000 |
| 1998 Mazda Protege | 1 | 45 | 63% | 1,368,500 |
| 1997 Mazda Protege | 1 | 66 | 93% | 1,368,500 |
| 1996 Mazda Protege | 1 | 70 | 98% | 1,368,500 |
| 1995 Mazda Protege | 4 | 165 | 231% | 1,502,077 |
| 1994 Mazda Protege | 1 | 74 | 104% | 1,368,500 |
| 1993 Mazda Protege | 1 | 44 | 62% | 1,368,500 |
| 1992 Mazda Protege | 1 | 63 | 88% | 1,368,500 |
| 1991 Mazda Protege | 1 | 51 | 71% | 1,368,500 |
| 1990 Mazda Protege | 1 | 37 | 52% | 1,368,500 |
| 1989 Mazda Protege NHTSA page | 0 | 2 | 3% |
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
1,370 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Seat Belts | 167.2 | 229 |
| Power Train | 124.1 | 170 |
| Air Bags | 122.6 | 168 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 95.6 | 131 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 68.6 | 94 |
| Electrical System | 54 | 74 |
| Tires | 39.4 | 54 |
| Suspension | 35 | 48 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 35 | 48 |
| Seats | 30.7 | 42 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- 62618 campaigns
- Mazda329 campaigns
- Tribute20 campaigns
- Mazda628 campaigns
- CX-76 campaigns
- MPV22 campaigns
- CX-913 campaigns
- CX-58 campaigns
- RX-814 campaigns
- B-Series Truck22 campaigns
- Mazda55 campaigns
- MX-5 Miata0 campaigns
- Millenia0 campaigns
- MX-65 campaigns
- 9293 campaigns
- 3233 campaigns
- RX-74 campaigns
- RX73 campaigns
- Navajo8 campaigns
- Mazdaspeed35 campaigns
- MX33 campaigns
- MX-56 campaigns
- Mazda0 campaigns
- MX65 campaigns
- CX91 campaign
- Mazda24 campaigns
- Mazdaspeed64 campaigns
- CX-34 campaigns
- Tribute Hybrid2 campaigns
- GLC4 campaigns
- CX-9011 campaigns
- Miata6 campaigns
- CX-307 campaigns
- CX-505 campaigns
- CX-50 Hybrid5 campaigns
- CX-704 campaigns
- RX33 campaigns
- 6162 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 Protege: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mazda/protege/. 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 Protege model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1995 with 4, 2001 with 1, 2000 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Mazda Protege model year has the most complaints?
- The 1995 model year, with 165 of the 1,070 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Mazda Protege name?
- Seat Belts: 167.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 124.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 122.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Mazda Protege?
- 5 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.