Mazda’s problem with steering on some of its most popular models
could affect about 500,000 vehicles worldwide, according to Tamara
Mlynarczyk, a company spokeswoman.
On Monday, Mazda told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that the recall would affect about 215,000 of its 2007–9 Mazda 3 and Mazda 5s in the United States.
But the recall will also cover vehicles in Asia and Europe.
The federal safety agency said the problem was a loss of power assist
which reduced “the driver’s ability to steer the vehicle as typically
expected” and increased the chance of a crash.
Mazda, however, told the agency that while it was willing to conduct a
recall, it believed that the loss of power steering posed “no
unreasonable safety risk.”
The recall comes about a year after Mazda started fixing vehicles in
Japan for the same problem. But Mazda told the American safety agency
that since the “occurrence rate was low” in the United States it issued
only a technical service bulletin to dealers telling them how to fix the
problem.
Under federal regulations, an automaker that finds a safety problem
must inform the highway traffic safety administration within five days
or face penalties.
Mazda says the problem is that rust can form inside a high-pressure
pipe in the power steering system and allow particles to enter the
motorized power steering pump, causing it to shut down to prevent the
pump from overheating.
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