Federal complaint record · Mazda Mazda6 · model year 2011

2011 Mazda Mazda6

Owners submitted 134 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 17th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2009 to 2013 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is suspension. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Suspension · 26% · group n = 49Structure · 16% · group n = 30Airbags · 15% · group n = 28Other · 12% · group n = 22Steering · 8% · group n = 15
134
Complaint records on file
89,914
Median mileage at the reported problem · 61 complaints reported mileage
26%
Of classified component reports name suspension · group n = 49
17th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Suspension · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Suspension26%

Suspension reports

Mazda Mazda6 · model year 2011

Reports in this group49
Share of classified reports26%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2010
0.5complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
225 matched incidents
This car
2011
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
134 matched incidents
2012
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
99 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 24 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32011 Mazda Mazda6
Brake performance · 9 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32011 Mazda Mazda6
Fire or smoke · 9 reports

Reports describe smoke, burning smells, or fire

Cluster 3 of 32011 Mazda Mazda6

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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