Mazda Cx-3, Mazda Mazda3, model years 2014 to 2021. Filed by Mazda North American Operations and reported to NHTSA on 14 July 2023. 236,100 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2014-2018 Mazda3 and 2016-2021 CX-3 vehicles. The rearview camera image may not display properly by showing a flickering or distorted image.
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: 6023G. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V487 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 23V487 cover?
- Mazda Cx-3, Mazda Mazda3, model years 2014-2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2014-2018 Mazda3 and 2016-2021 CX-3 vehicles. The rearview camera image may not display properly by showing a flickering or distorted image.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A rearview camera that does not display properly can reduce the driver's rear view, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Dealers will inspect and replace the rearview camera, as necessary. In addition, dealers will install a wiring harness fastening seal. All repairs will be performed free of charge. Interim notification letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed September 13, 2023.
- 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 6023G, 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: “A rearview camera that does not display properly can reduce the driver's rear view, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V487 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mazda North American Operations |
| System at fault | Back Over Prevention:Sensing System:Camera |
| Reported to NHTSA | 14 July 2023 |
| Model years | 2014-2021 |
| Vehicles named | MAZDA CX-3, MAZDA MAZDA3 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A rearview camera that does not display properly can reduce the driver's rear view, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the rearview camera, as necessary. In addition, dealers will install a wiring harness fastening seal. All repairs will be performed free of charge. Interim notification letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed September 13, 2023. Final owner letters for affected models and model years in the states of CT, MA, MD, NJ, NY, PA and VA were mailed August 14, 2024. The remaining owner notification letters will be mailed at a future date, anticipated on or before May 1, 2025. Owners may contact Mazda customer service at 1-800-222-5500, Option 6. Mazda's number for this recall is 6023G.
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 246 notices in the record whose component field names back over prevention. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2023391, recorded 14 July 2023 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 6023G, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
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 23V487, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v487/
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 23V487 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
6dec1a3c - Consequence
949ea2e1 - 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.
The wording we hold for 23V487 · how the whole register is watched
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