Federal complaint record · Mazda Mazda6 · model year 2012

2012 Mazda Mazda6

Owners submitted 99 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 13th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2010 to 2014 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 23% · group n = 30Lighting · 22% · group n = 28Other · 16% · group n = 20Electrical · 9% · group n = 12Structure · 9% · group n = 12
99
Complaint records on file
66,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 51 complaints reported mileage
23%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 30
13th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Airbags · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags23%

Airbags reports

Mazda Mazda6 · model year 2012

Reports in this group30
Share of classified reports23%
Component groups on file6
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From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 25 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32012 Mazda Mazda6
Electrical faults · 7 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 2 of 32012 Mazda Mazda6
Fire or smoke · 5 reports

Reports describe smoke, burning smells, or fire

Cluster 3 of 32012 Mazda Mazda6

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

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