Bermaz has expanded its Takata airbag recall campaign for Mazda vehicles, with the RX-8 (FE), additional units of the first-gen BT-50 (UN) and third-gen Mazda 2 (DE) joining the company’s previous recall campaign that included the Mazda 6 (GG).
According to the company’s dedicated webpage, 46 units of the rotary-powered sports car produced between 2008 and 2011, and 5,898 units of the Mazda 2 made between 2010 and 2014, are affected. All the vehicles mentioned will need to have their front passenger-side airbag inflators replaced.
As for the pick-up, a total of 3,384 units made between 2004 and 2011 are listed in the recall, with 1,551 requiring both frontal airbag inflators (driver and passenger) to be replaced. Meanwhile, 1,833 trucks will only require the front passenger-side airbag inflator to be swapped.
The company’s earlier recall involved 427 units of the Mazda 6 (GG), whereby both the driver- and passenger-side airbag inflators required replacing, while 576 units of the first-generation BT-50 needed new driver-side airbag inflators.
Customers are advised to contact the Mazda Zoom Zoom Line at 1800-22-8080 for further inquires and to place appointments. Vehicles owners can also log on to a dedicated website on the matter, where they can key in the 17-digit Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) at the bottom of the page to confirm if their vehicles are affected. The website can be found, here.
The fix will take roughly 1 to 1.5 hours, and due to the limited stock of new airbag inflators, the recall campaign will be done on a “first come, first serve” basis. Please do not hesitate in ensuring that your vehicle gets its airbags replaced should it be listed as an affected model.
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Why so late? Honda make a recall few years ago.
Now I would like to see people who bashing Honda said about this. Others brand is more worst.
P1 & P2 is the best.
Did Honda recall all their older cars?
wondered those recond-units? if they are affected by faulty airbag, will they be sidelined?
My pakcik 2008 Mazda RX8 dh hantar scrap metal.
Thanks for making us aware of this. Just called Bermaz on Federal Highway – my usual service centre, got told I have to wait until next week to make an appointment because the parts haven’t arrived yet. Sounds unfair to say first come, first serve when they can’t even make an appointment yet.
Ha ha ha, bashers like anything & everything on bad news some more on Takada airbag’s. This is the time those older car are happy that they don’t have this issue hence don’t have to waste time making appointment & waiting for stocks.
Some says we bash cuz we care about jepunis quality, just like we “care” about P1…
Did the replacement for my 6 without hassle. Just call 2 weeks ahead and make a booking. They were quite professional about it although I bought it under the previous distributor. Just dont sound like u want to kill them as if they put in the airbags and they will help. Being a little nice to the service agent that deals with u goes a long way.
If they say first come first serve and out of stock, just book the next available stock and get your regular mechanic to disable your airbag for the timebeing.
Hi all,
I need help. I own and drive a mazda 6 2011. 6 months ago, the passenger side dashboard started to MELT. It become goey, sticky and some sort of liquid started appear…it short it “melted” and become clay like…..I lodge a report and send my car to mazda service ctr in Oct. Today, they inform me that it is not their fault nor their problem as the car is beyond warranty (90k km). I am really at a lost, I believe warranty period or not some basic quality of the product should be “guarantee” for example no one should expect the car roft to tear of, or the engine to stop working or the dashboard to melt once the car pass its warranty period. Also, they claim that I have no service record at 60k hence cannot complete the claim. My question is – will it impact the dashboard whether I service the car or not? For the record, I did service the car but I think that is an immaterial fact. What else can I do? Please suggest and help