16V644000
STRUCTURE:BODY:HATCHBACK/LIFTGATE
If the lift gate falls unexpectedly, it may hit the user, increasing their risk of injury.
2012 MAZDA MAZDA3
1 safety recall campaign, 1 defect investigation (1 open), 328 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations11 open
Owner complaints328
Complaints citing a crash12
Complaints citing a fire1
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 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 38POWER TRAIN
- 32ENGINE
- 31EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 24ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 20VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 18FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 18UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 16ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2012 MAZDA MAZDA3s 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.