Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full
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Our database holds 16 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 1988 Mazda MX6. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
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WHILE DRIVING AT AN UNDETERMINED SPEED AND WITH NO WARNING REAR SUSPENSION COLLAPSED. THE CONSUMER HAD THE VEHICLE TOWED TO THE SERVICE DEALER. *AK THE FAILURE WAS DUE TO SALT CORROSION. THE VEHICLE SPUN AROUND, SLID ACROSS THE LEFT LANE AND INTO THE MEDIAN. *SC
CONSUMER STATES THAT THERE IS AN ELECTRICAL SHORT THAT DRAINS THE BATTERY IN AS LOW AS HALF AN HOUR AFTER THE BATTERY HAS BEEN CHARGED, THE ALTERNATOR HAS BEEN REPLACED THREE TIMES ALONG WITH THE BATTERY, MAIN FUSE AND DISTRIBUTOR, HOWEVER THE PROBLEM CONTINUES. *SLC
CONSUMER BOUGHT FOUR TIRES, AND THREE HAD TREAD SEPARATION. *AK
SEAT BELT LOCK AND RELEASE MECHANISM JAMMED RENDERING SEATBELT USELESS. NLM
INITIALLY WHEN THIS PROBLEM OCCURRED, I DISCOVERED THE DOOR HANDLE MECHANISM IS MADE OF POT METAL AND NOT OF A VERY STRONG NATURE FOR THE FREQUENT USE IT GETS. CHECKING WITH THE DEALER I FIND IT WILL COST $300 TO FIX. TO SAVE MONEY I RESEARCHED USED PART PLACES. I DISCOVERED THIS IS A WIDE SPREAD PROBLEM AND DOOR HANDLES ARE RARE TO COME BY AS MOST ARE ALREADY BOUGHT UP. I HAVE SEARCHED NORTHERN AS WELL AS SOUTHERN CA, AND WILL NOW TRY IN TX. I FEEL THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE BECAUSE MY 2 YEAR OLD WAS LOCKED IN THE CAR THE OTHER DAY AND THE HANDLE OF COURSE BEING BROKEN WOULDN'T OPEN. LUCKILY I WAS ABLE TO PUT SOMETHING DOWN THROUGH THE GLASS TO OPEN IT FROM THE INSIDE. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A DEFECTIVE PART, IS THERE ANYWAY TO HAVE IT FIXED BY THE DEALER?.
HAD PARKED VEHICLE & PUT WINDOWS DOWN. WHILE PUTTING POWER WINDOWS DOWN, STARTED TO MAKE NOISES & GOT STUCK. POWER WINDOWS HIT A ROD. THE DOOR BECAME UNLOCKED & OPEN. TRIED CLOSING DOOR, BUT DOOR DID NOT CLOSE PROPERLY. WILL BE TAKING VEHICLE TO DEALER TO HAVE DOOR & WINDOWS CHECKED. *AK
FRONTAL COLLISION, IMPACT 12:00 POSITION, LAP/SHOULDER BELT DID NOT RETRACT, VEHICLE WAS COMPLETELY STOPPED. *AK
THE DEALERSHIP DOES NOT HAVE THE PARTS AVAILABLE AND HASN'T HAD THE PARTS IN A MONTH 95V1003005. PLEASE DESCRIBE. *AK
WHILE DRIVING SMOKE STARTED COMING FROM THE ENGINE AND THROUGH THE HEATING DUCTS, DRIVER PULLED OVER THE FIRE HAD STARTED. TT
THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE SEATBELT WILL NOT LATCH AND WHEN IT IS LATCHED IT WILL NOT UNLATCH. PLEASE DESCRIBE. TT
VEHICLES AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION HAS AN OVERDRIVE HOLD FEATURE WHICH COMES ON BY ITSELF AND SHIFTS INTO LOWER GEARS. THIS OCCURS WITH NO WARNING. TT
EXPERIENCES INTERMITTENT SEATBELT BUCKLE FAILURE, TAKATA BUCKLE WON'T INTERLOCK, WHEN PULL ON BUCKLE RELEASES. TT
BUCKLE MODEL NO 524. PLASTIC PART IN SEAT BELT WOULD NOT ENGAGE PROPERLY ON DRIVER SEAT. TT
PASSENGER SEAT BELT BUCKLE RED BUTTON BROKE, RESULTING IN INOPERATIVE SEAT BELT. TT
SEAT LATCH ON DRIVERS SIDE HAS PROBLEM LATCHING AND STICKS WHEN YOU TRY TO UNLATCH IT. TT
MODE NO 524, LAP/SHOULDER BUCKLE WILL NOT SNAP, PLASTIC INSIDE BUCKLE BROKE. 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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