Mazda Mazda3, model years 2019 to 2020. Filed by Mazda North American Operations and reported to NHTSA on 19 December 2019. 35,390 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Mazda3 vehicles. The Smart Brake System (SBS) can falsely detect an obstacle while driving, activating the automatic emergency braking system and suddenly stopping the vehicle.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, 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's own number for this recall: 4219L. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19V907 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 19V907 cover?
- Mazda Mazda3, model years 2019-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Mazda3 vehicles. The Smart Brake System (SBS) can falsely detect an obstacle while driving, activating the automatic emergency braking system and suddenly stopping the vehicle.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Stopping the vehicle unexpectedly increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Mazda will notify owners, and dealers will update the SBS software. In addition, vehicles with certain production dates will receive an instrument cluster software update or replacement and a replacement owner's manual. These repairs will be performed free of charge.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Mazda calls this recall 4219L, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Stopping the vehicle unexpectedly increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19V907 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mazda North American Operations |
| System at fault | Forward Collision Avoidance:Automatic Emergency Braking |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 December 2019 |
| Model years | 2019-2020 |
| Vehicles named | MAZDA MAZDA3 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Stopping the vehicle unexpectedly increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Mazda will notify owners, and dealers will update the SBS software. In addition, vehicles with certain production dates will receive an instrument cluster software update or replacement and a replacement owner's manual. These repairs will be performed free of charge. The recall began February 14, 2020. Owners may contact Mazda customer service at 1-800-222-5500, Option 4. Mazda's number for this recall is 4219L.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 46 notices in the record whose component field names forward collision avoidance. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 19V907, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19v907/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 19V907 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e1e2b7f5 - Consequence
20c21ee2 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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