18V717000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
2015 MAZDA CX-9
2 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 45 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
1 campaign covering the 2015 MAZDA CX-9 carries NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns2
Park it1stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints45
Complaints citing a crash1
Complaints citing a fire0
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 2 of 2
16V203000
STEERING
If the steering knuckle separates from the strut assembly, it can cause a loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 17ENGINE
- 9UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 3POWER TRAIN
- 3SERVICE BRAKES
- 2AIR BAGS
- 2EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 1FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 1ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2015 MAZDA CX-9s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.