Recall campaign on Atenza

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Mazda Motor Corporation filed the following recall with MLIT on June 4, 2015.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this recall may cause you.
We have been informing the subject vehicle owners related to the following recall regarding the field action with the direct mail from the Mazda dealers.

In order to expedite the remedy of the affected vehicles with Takata air bag recall, in 2018, MLIT(*) announced the policy not to pass the vehicle inspection, if the subject vehicles are yet to be remedied under the Takata recall action, having a potential risk of abnormal air bag deployment. The policy was put into practice from May, 2018 and certain vehicles are unable to pass the vehicle inspection, if not remedied. If your vehicle is subject to Takata air bag recall and is yet to be remedied, please contact any authorized Mazda dealer. We are concerned about your safety and strongly encourage you to have your vehicle remedied immediately. The remedy will be performed free of charge.
(*) MLIT stands for “Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism”.

Please enter the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) through the Recall Search Tool at the top of this page to confirm if your vehicle needs to be repaired as part of Takata air bag recall.

Recall campaign number Launch date
3586 June 9, 2016.

Description of the defect and cause

Some of the subject inflators installed in frontal passenger air bag could potentially create excessive internal pressure when the air bag is deployment, which could result in the body of the inflator rupturing upon deployment. In the event of the inflator rupture, metal fragments could pass through the airbag cushion metal, which may result in injury to vehicle occupants.

Remedy to correct the defect

Mazda dealers replace the passenger side air bag inflator with modified parts.

The subject vehicles

Type Commercial
name
VIN and Vehicle production period Number of
the vehicles.
Remark
DBA-GG3P Atenza GG3P-501365~GG3P-501565April 2, 2007~November 15, 2007 123
DBA-GG3P GG3P-401626~GG3P-401788April 3, 2007~November 9, 2007 143
DBA-GG3S GG3S-407359~GG3S-408514April 2, 2007~November 16, 2007 868
DBA-GY3W
CBA-GY3W
GY3W-508526~GY3W-509363April 2, 2007~November 14, 2007 641
DBA-GGEP GGEP-403266~GGEP-403923April 2, 2007~November 16, 2007 414
DBA-GGES GGES-401419~GGES-401663April 4, 2007~November 16, 2007 195
DBA-GYEW GYEW-402440~GYEW-402808April 2, 2007~November 14, 2007 241

Important notice of Takata air bag recall

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