1995 Mazda MX-6 defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1995 Mazda MX-6. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• HEADLIGHT FAILURE
  Recall Query RQ99022 · opened Dec 20, 1999 · closed Aug 30, 2000

  OBTAINED RECALL 99V-358

• OVERSENSITIVE AIR BAG DEPLOYMENT
  Engineering Analysis EA97012 · opened May 23, 1997 · closed Oct 9, 1998 · led to recall 98V249000

  In may of 1997, odi upgraded to an engineering analysis with 51 complaints.odi is now aware of 88 complaints of alleged inappropriate airbag deployments.typical complaints allege that the airbags deployed after the vehicle hit a pot hole at between 20 and 45 mph, or that the airbags deployed while driving at between 20…