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Structure
10/29/2019
SIDE SLIDING DOORS WILL OPEN WHILE DRIVING, CREATING A SAFETY HAZARD TO PASSENGERS.
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Steering
09/04/2012
POWER STEERING LEAK
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Steering
08/25/2019
SUDDEN POWER STEERING LOSS WHILE DRIVING ON AN ENTRY RAMP OF A HIGHWAY, ACCOMPANIED BY ILLUMINATION OF MULTIPLE LIGHTS ON THE DASHBOARD. STEERING LOSS OCCURRED WHILE VEHICLE STEERING WHEEL WAS TURNED AND VEHICLE WAS IN MOTION AND PREPARING TO MERGE ONTO HIGHWAY. STEERING WHEEL SUDDENLY AND VIOLENTLY JERKED FROM MY HANDS, CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO STEER IN THE DIRECTION OFF THE ROAD. DASH LIGHTS (INCLUDING POWER STEERING) FLASHED INTERMITTENTLY, HOWEVER WOULD REMAIN CONSTANTLY ON WHEN STEERING WAS PULLED FROM CENTER POSITION. POWER STEERING LOSS WAS SPONTANEOUS, INTERMITTENT, AND WITHOUT WARNING. VEHICLE DID NOT RECORD ANY DIAGNOSTIC FAULT CODES WHILE LIGHTS WERE DISPLAYED. SYMPTOMS VEHICLE DISPLAYED COINCIDE WITH "RECALL SUMMARY" FOUND DOCUMENTED ON NHTSA RECALL 10V374000 FOR THE 2007 MAZDA5. INCIDENT OCCURRED BRIEFLY AT LOW SPEEDS WHILE PARKING ON 08/23/2019 AND RESOLVED AFTER VEHICLE WAS TURNED OFF AND RESTARTED. INCIDENT REOCCURRED WHILE MERGING ONTO HIGHWAY AT HIGH RATE OF SPEE...
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Unknown Or Other
01/21/2018
THE SLIDING DOORS SEEM TO BE FROZEN AND THEY WILL NOT LATCH PROPERLY. ONE DAY WHILE MY DAUGHTERS WERE IN THE CAR WITH ME THE DOORS SLID OPEN AFTER I DROVE AWAY AND THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD CLOSED THE DOORS. THE OTHER TWO DAYS THE DOOR DID NOT SLIDE OPEN BUT THE LIGHT INDICATED THE DOOR WAS OPEN BUT WE HADN'T USED THE DOORS WE ONLY UNLOCKED THEM.
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Steering
10/05/2017
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 MAZDA 5. WHILE DRIVING 15 MPH, THE STEERING WHEEL FAILED TO RETURN TO ITS ORIGINAL POSITION AND STRAIGHTEN THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO A DEALER OR INDEPENDENT MECHANIC. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. A DEALER WAS NOT CONTACTED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE AND STATED THAT THE CONTACT SHOULD TAKE THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER AND THAT THERE WAS A TSB. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 114,000.
