Mazda Mazda3. Published by Transport Canada as 2016464 on 22 September 2016. System: Fuel System.
What the notice says On certain vehicles. the fuel tank may contain a defect which could allow a weld to break, potentially resulting in a fuel leak. A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source could result in a fire causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will inspect the fuel tank and replace if necessary.
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.
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
- 2016464
- Recall date
- 22 September 2016
- Make
- Mazda
- Models
- Mazda3
- Model years
- 2014 to 2016
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Fuel System
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 12,672
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles. the fuel tank may contain a defect which could allow a weld to break, potentially resulting in a fuel leak. A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source could result in a fire causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will inspect the fuel tank and replace if necessary.
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 2016464.
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.
- 2016465 · 22 September 2016 · Mazda3 · Fuel System
- 2016431 · 6 September 2016 · Mazdaspeed3, Mazda3, Mazda5 · Structure
- 2016394 · 10 August 2016 · Cx-7 · Suspension
- 2016395 · 10 August 2016 · Mazda6 · Airbag
- 2016568 · 15 November 2016 · Rx-8 · Fuel System
- 2016259 · 26 May 2016 · Rx-8, MPV · Airbag
- 2016152 · 8 April 2016 · Mazda2, Cx-5, Cx-9 · Suspension
- 2016049 · 1 February 2016 · Cx-5 · Fuel System
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.
- 2016465 · 22 September 2016 · Mazda3 · Fuel System
- 2016450 · 14 September 2016 · Grand Caravan, Amerivan 10 · Fuel System
- 2016444 · 12 September 2016 · Grom125, Forza (nss300) · Fuel System
- 2016443 · 9 September 2016 · Q7, Q5 · Fuel System
- 2016441 · 9 September 2016 · Cascadia · Fuel System
- 2016429 · 2 September 2016 · A6, A7 · Fuel System
Reading this against the source
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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 644 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2016.
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