Mazda Cx-3, Mazda Cx-5, Mazda Cx-9, Mazda Mazda2, Mazda Mazda3, Mazda Mazda6, model years 2018 to 2020. Filed by Mazda North American Operations and reported to NHTSA on 12 November 2021. 121,038 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2018 Mazda3, Mazda6, 2019 CX-3, 2018-2019 MX-5, CX-5, CX-9, and 2019-2020 Mazda2 vehicles. The impeller inside the low-pressure fuel pump may crack and deform, potentially causing the fuel pump to fail.
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: 5321K. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V875 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 21V875 cover?
- Mazda Cx-3, Mazda Cx-5, Mazda Cx-9, Mazda Mazda2, Mazda Mazda3, Mazda Mazda6, Mazda Mx-5, model years 2018-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2018 Mazda3, Mazda6, 2019 CX-3, 2018-2019 MX-5, CX-5, CX-9, and 2019-2020 Mazda2 vehicles. The impeller inside the low-pressure fuel pump may crack and deform, potentially causing the fuel pump to fail.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Fuel pump failure may cause an engine stall, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the fuel pumps, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 18, 2022. Owners may contact Mazda customer service at 1-800-222-5500 Option 4. Mazda's number for this recall is 5321K.
- 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 5321K, 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: “Fuel pump failure may cause an engine stall, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V875 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mazda North American Operations |
| System at fault | Fuel System, Gasoline:Delivery:Fuel Pump |
| Reported to NHTSA | 12 November 2021 |
| Model years | 2018-2020 |
| Vehicles named | MAZDA CX-3, MAZDA CX-5, MAZDA CX-9, MAZDA MAZDA2, MAZDA MAZDA3, MAZDA MAZDA6, MAZDA MX-5 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Fuel pump failure may cause an engine stall, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the fuel pumps, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 18, 2022. Owners may contact Mazda customer service at 1-800-222-5500 Option 4. Mazda's number for this recall is 5321K.
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 470 notices in the record whose component field names fuel system, gasoline. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Mazda CX-3 recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Mazda CX-5 recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Mazda CX-9 recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Mazda Mazda2 recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Mazda Mazda3 recalls: 22 US campaigns
- Mazda Mazda6 recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Mazda MX-5 recalls: 5 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 21V875, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v875/
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 21V875 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ea067395 - Consequence
0fe4b701 - 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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