Mazda Cx-50, model years 2024 to 2025. Filed by Mazda North American Operations and reported to NHTSA on 14 March 2025. 63 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2024-2025 CX-50 vehicles equipped with Mazda Genuine Accessory trailer hitches. The trailer hitch assembly bolts may loosen and cause the assembly to separate from the vehicle body during towing or normal driving conditions.
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: 7225C. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V167 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 25V167 cover?
- Mazda Cx-50, model years 2024-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2024-2025 CX-50 vehicles equipped with Mazda Genuine Accessory trailer hitches. The trailer hitch assembly bolts may loosen and cause the assembly to separate from the vehicle body during towing or normal driving conditions.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A detached trailer hitch assembly can create a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will tighten the trailer hitch bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 4, 2025. Mazda's number for this recall is 7225C.
- 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 7225C, 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 detached trailer hitch assembly can create a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V167 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mazda North American Operations |
| System at fault | Trailer Hitches |
| Reported to NHTSA | 14 March 2025 |
| Model years | 2024-2025 |
| Vehicles named | MAZDA CX-50 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) is recalling certain 2024-2025 CX-50 vehicles equipped with Mazda Genuine Accessory trailer hitches. The trailer hitch assembly bolts may loosen and cause the assembly to separate from the vehicle body during towing or normal driving conditions.
The consequence
A detached trailer hitch assembly can create a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will tighten the trailer hitch bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 4, 2025. Mazda's number for this recall is 7225C.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 196704b431500165d4571e1b1b9f0220…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 142 notices in the record whose component field names trailer hitches. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 32 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 25V167, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v167/
The copy quoted above hashes to 196704b431500165d4571e1b1b9f0220…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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.
Other Mazda notices we hold
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- 25V418: 2025 CX-50 Hybrid
- 25V413: CX-50 Hybrid and CX-50
- 25V357: 2024-2025 Mazda3 and CX30
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- 24V817: 2024 CX-90 and 2025 CX-70 plug-in hybrid electric
- 24V816: 2024 CX-90
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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 25V167 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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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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