19V782000
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.
2010 MAZDA MAZDA6
9 safety recall campaigns, 4 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 1 defect investigation, 318 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
4 campaigns covering the 2010 MAZDA MAZDA6 carry 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 campaigns9
Park it4stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints318
Complaints citing a crash9
Complaints citing a fire2
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 6 of 9
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.
18V018000
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.
17V429000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
18V631000
STRUCTURE
Corrosion may weaken the mounting point for the passenger side lower control arm, unexpectedly changing the steering alignment and increasing the risk of a crash.
16V594000
AIR BAGS
Failure of the ACU would illuminate the air bag warning light and prevent the air bags from deploying in the event of a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
What owners report most
- 53AIR BAGS
- 43SUSPENSION
- 33STRUCTURE:BODY
- 33UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 29STEERING
- 23STRUCTURE
- 20EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 13ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2010 MAZDA MAZDA6s 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.