Owner-reported complaints naming the airbag system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the air-bag system — deployment behaviour, inflators, sensors and warning lights. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1994 Mazda MPV submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 12 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
I HAD A MVA ON 9/20/03. A VEHICLE PULLED IN FRONT OF ME AND I COLLIDED WITH THEIR FRONT PASSENGER SIDE. THE DRIVER SIDE AIR BAG IN MY VEHICLE DID NOT DEPLOY. I WAS DRIVING A MAZDA MPV 1994. MPV TOTALED. MPV FRONT END COLLAPSED. *JB
WHILE DRIVING 50 MPH THE VEHICLE HIT A DEER. UPON IMPACT THE FRONT AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY. THE VEHICLE SUSTAINED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE. *AK *NLM
THE CONSUMER WAS IN AN ACCIDENT WHERE THE VEHICLE WAS STRUCK , AND IN THE FRONT CENTER OF THE VEHICLE THE AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY. THE DEALER WAS NOTIFIED. MR SCC
VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A FRONTAL COLLISION AT 35 MPH, SEATBELTS DID NOT RETRACT, AND AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. MANUFACTURER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED. *AK
IN A DIRECT FRONTAL IMPACT DRIVER'S AIRBAG DID NOT DEPLOY WHICH DID NOT PROTECT THE OCCUPANT IN THIS ACCIDENT. CAUSE UNKNOWN. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION. *AK
WHILE SLOWLY PULLING INTO THE DRIVEWAY AND RUNNING OVER A SMALL BUMP, THE DRIVERS SIDE AIRBAG DEPLOYED, CAUSING INJURIES TO THE ARM/NECK/CHEST AND SHOULDERS. *AK *JB
DURING FRONTAL IMPACT, THE DRIVER'S AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY. *AK THREE PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN THE ACCIDENT. *SLC
IN AUTO ACCIDENT AND DRIVERS AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY. TT
INVOLVED IN A 10 MPH FRONTAL COLLISION AND AIRBAG DID NOT DEPLOY EVEN THOUGH THE SENSOR WAS CRUSHED. TT
VEHICLES AIRBAG DEPLOYED AT 10:00 POSITION AT 35MPH AND AIRBAG DID NOT FULLY INFLATE THE GAS POURED INTO PASSENGER COMPARTMENT DUE TO RIP ON LEFT SIDE OF BAG.
BRAKES FAILED, CAUSING LOSS OF CONTROL/ACCIDENT. *SKD
AIRBAG DID NOT DEPLOY UPON HEAD ON COLLISION AT 55MPH. TT
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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