2004 MAZDA MAZDA6 — Complaint #1889106
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS:BULBS filed April 20, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1889106 (ODI reference 11518013) concerns a 2004 MAZDA MAZDA6 and was filed on April 20, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 1, 2022. The vehicle had 165,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Tennessee based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:headlights:bulbs, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same MAZDA MAZDA6 cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:headlights:bulbs failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2004 MAZDA MAZDA6 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2004 Mazda Mazda6. The contact stated that while operating the vehicle, the driverâs and passengerâs side headlights were inoperable and failed to illuminate as needed. The contact replaced the bulbs, but the failure persisted. The vehicle was taken to the local mechanic who diagnosed that the electrical wires had shorted out due defective wire coating. The mechanic attempted to fix the failure by covering the electrical wires, but the failure persisted. The local dealer was notified of the failure. The manufacturer was not yet contacted. The failure mileage was 165,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1889106 |
| ODI Number | 11518013 |
| Date Filed | April 20, 2023 |
| Failure Date | December 1, 2022 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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