Mazda Mazda3. Published by Transport Canada as 2015444 on 2 October 2015. System: Fuel System.
What the notice says Certain vehicles may have been manufactured with defective fuel tank shut-off-valves. Under certain conditions, this could cause fuel to flow through the shut-off-valve into the charcoal canister and leak from the external vent. Fuel leakage, in the presence of an ignition source, could result in a fire causing injury …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Transport Canada carries this recall as 2015444, dated 2 October 2015. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 15V621, dated 2 October 2015. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, 8615J.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2015444 | 15V621 |
| Dated | 2 October 2015 | 2 October 2015 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
| Make | Mazda | |
Both registers carry the same date for this defect.
These are the dates each register records against its own notice. They are separate administrative acts in two countries, recorded by two authorities under two sets of rules, and this page does not claim that one caused the other or that owners in either country were contacted on those days. What it shows is that the same manufacturer campaign reached the two registers on different dates.
Read the American notice 15V621, including every earlier version of its wording this site holds. The Canadian register explains why the manufacturer code is published there and what that makes possible. Canada and America sets every matched pair side by side.
Mazda MAZDA3 in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Mazda MAZDA3 is named on 24 American notices, 15 British, 1 European and 2 Japanese. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
- DVSA recall R/2018/087: Mazda MAZDA3, MAZDA2 and CX-3 (Software error can cause engine to fail)
- DVSA recall R/2018/236: Mazda CX-5, MAZDA6 and MAZDA3 (Vacuum pump may wear prematurely)
- DVSA recall R/2018/288: Mazda MAZDA6, CX-5 and MAZDA3 (Fuel injector software does not control the electric current correctly)
The European register
The Japanese register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2015444
- Recall date
- 2 October 2015
- Make
- Mazda
- Models
- Mazda3
- Model years
- 2015 to 2016
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Fuel System
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 5,349
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain vehicles may have been manufactured with defective fuel tank shut-off-valves. Under certain conditions, this could cause fuel to flow through the shut-off-valve into the charcoal canister and leak from the external vent. Fuel leakage, in the presence of an ignition source, could result in a fire causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will inspect and replace the charcoal canister and associated fuel tank components.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2015444.
Mazda elsewhere in this register
Mazda is named on 204 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2015489 · 19 October 2015 · MPV, 323, Protege · Electrical
- 2015490 · 19 October 2015 · Tribute · Powertrain
- 2015624 · 31 December 2015 · Mazda6, Mazdaspeed6 · Airbag
- 2015323 · 21 July 2015 · Cx-9 · Suspension
- 2015246 · 4 June 2015 · B Series · Airbag
- 2015247 · 4 June 2015 · Mazda6, Rx-8, Mazdaspeed6 · Airbag
- 2016049 · 1 February 2016 · Cx-5 · Fuel System
- 2016050 · 1 February 2016 · B Series · Airbag
The same system: Fuel System
866 notices in this register name Fuel System. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2015482 · 16 October 2015 · Saf-T-Liner Conventional School Bus · Fuel System
- 2015503 · 23 October 2015 · W3500, Npr-Hd, NPR · Fuel System
- 2015509 · 27 October 2015 · MKX, Edge · Fuel System
- 2015514 · 29 October 2015 · Macan Turbo, Macan S · Fuel System
- 2015518 · 30 October 2015 · Renegade X-Rs 800r, Renegade Enduro 600, Renegade Enduro 800r · Fuel System
- 2015441 · 30 September 2015 · MKZ, Fusion · Fuel System
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Mazda Mazda3, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Mazda: 204 in the register, and 620 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2015.
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