Air Bags › Frontal
Filed Jun 21, 2002WA
AIRBAGS DEPLOY WHILE SITTING AT AN INTERSECTION, AND THERE WAS NO CONTACT WITH A VEHICLE. DEALERSHIP IS AWARE OF PROBLEM.*AK
1998 Mazda MX-5 Miata
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the airbags. No safety recall has been issued.
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Most common 1998 Mazda MX-5 Miata problems
1 of the 1 complaints (100%) are about the airbags.
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Bags › Frontal · airbags | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsAll 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.
Across model years
Worst on record: 1999| Year | Complaints | Recalls | Fires | Deaths | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2004 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2003 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | Routine |
| 2002 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
| 2001 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2000 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Routine |
| 1999 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 1998 — this page | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 1997 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
| 1996 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 1995 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Routine |
| 1994 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 1993 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 1992 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 1991 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 1990 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
Reading this record
No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.
Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.
Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.