Recall campaign on Demio and Bongo

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Mazda Motor Corporation filed the following recall with MLIT on June 30, 2018.

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. When the applicable coverage of the policy is expanded sequentially in May, 2020 and May, 2022 and May, 2024 and May, certain vehicles will become unable to pass the vehicle inspection. 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
3839 June 30, 2017.

Description of the defect and cause

On the certain passenger airbag inflator, some propellants in inflator may deteriorate due to the prolonged exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperature and high temperature cycling. Therefore, during the airbag deployment, the container of inflator may be broken, components may be scattered, causing passengers to be injured.

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-DE3AS Demio DE3AS-100011~DE3AS-507591July 26, 2007~September 19, 2014 16,046
DBA-DE3FS DE3FS-100037~DE3FS-577485May 11, 2007~September 20, 2014 231,741
DBA-DE3FS
Modified
DE3FS-700011~DE3FS-700125August 27, 2012~April 25, 2013 109
DBA-DE5FS DE5FS-100027~DE5FS-503456May 11, 2007~July 31, 2014 26,691
DBA-DEJFS DEJFS-100097~DEJFS-173740May 26, 2011~September 30, 2014 71,439
ABF-SKP2V Bongo SKP2V-100018~SKP2V-214920August 3, 2010~January 8, 2016 21,380
ABF-SKP2M SKP2M-100011~SKP2M-204625August 3, 2010~January 7, 2016 6,454
ABF-SKP2T SKP2T-100006~SKP2T-117891August 4, 2010~December 5, 2016 17,466
ABF-SKP2L SKP2L-100004~SKP2L-105146August 4, 2010~February 25, 2015 5,093
DBF-SLP2V SLP2V-100006~SLP2V-101557February 10, 2016~June 2, 2016 1,551
DBF-SLP2M SLP2M-100007~SLP2M-100626February 10, 2016~June 2, 2016 620
DBF-SLP2T SLP2T-100005~SLP2T-101399February 10, 2016~June 3, 2016 1,386
DBF-SLP2L SLP2L-100005~SLP2L-100426February 10, 2016~June 3, 2016 420

Important notice of Takata air bag recall

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