Mazda Mazda3. Published by Transport Canada as 2019224 on 14 May 2019. System: Lights And Instruments.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain cars, the passenger airbag status and seat belt status indicator lights may not work properly. These lights are designed to indicate when the passenger airbag is turned off and when a passenger is not buckled. Instead, this problem could cause the passenger airbag status indicator light to …
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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
- 2019224
- Recall date
- 14 May 2019
- Make
- Mazda
- Models
- Mazda3
- Model years
- 2019
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Lights And Instruments
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 10,905
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain cars, the passenger airbag status and seat belt status indicator lights may not work properly. These lights are designed to indicate when the passenger airbag is turned off and when a passenger is not buckled. Instead, this problem could cause the passenger airbag status indicator light to incorrectly turn off when the passenger airbag is deactivated. It could also cause the passenger seat belt status indicator to incorrectly turn off when the seat belt is not buckled. Additionally, the rear seat belt status indicators may turn off regardless of seat belt use.
Note: This problem has no effect on the operation of the airbag system.Safety Risk:
Seat belt and airbag indicator lights that do not work properly could cause confusion. They could also cause a driver to be unaware that the rear seat occupants are not buckled. This could increase the risk of injury in a crash.Corrective Actions:
The company will notify owners by mail and instruct them to take their car to a dealer to replace the seat belt indicator assembly.
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 2019224.
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.
- 2019256 · 30 May 2019 · Cx-9 · Airbag
- 2019201 · 25 April 2019 · Mazda6 · Structure
- 2019274 · 7 June 2019 · Mazda3 · Wheels
- 2019169 · 4 April 2019 · Mazda3 · Visual System
- 2019321 · 27 June 2019 · Mx-5 Miata · Structure
- 2019322 · 27 June 2019 · Cx-5, Mazda6, Mazda3 · Engine
- 2019337 · 5 July 2019 · Mazda3 · Seats And Restraints
- 2019369 · 29 July 2019 · Mazda3 · Visual System
The same system: Lights And Instruments
900 notices in this register name Lights And Instruments. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2019241 · 23 May 2019 · Q3 · Lights And Instruments
- 2019242 · 23 May 2019 · Passat, Atlas · Lights And Instruments
- 2019252 · 28 May 2019 · Chief, Chieftain · Lights And Instruments
- 2019258 · 31 May 2019 · 3500, 4500, 2500 · Lights And Instruments
- 2019159 · 28 March 2019 · MDX · Lights And Instruments
- 2019328 · 2 July 2019 · Gallardo · Lights And Instruments
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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 594 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2019.
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