2010 MAZDA MAZDA3 — Complaint #2133619
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:INTERIOR PANELS:DASHBOARD filed September 24, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2133619 (ODI reference 11689499) concerns a 2010 MAZDA MAZDA3 and was filed on September 24, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 29, 2025. The report was geocoded to Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:interior panels:dashboard, 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. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
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 MAZDA3 cohort independently describe similar structure:interior panels:dashboard 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 2010 MAZDA MAZDA3 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
See attached document for complaint.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2133619 |
| ODI Number | 11689499 |
| Date Filed | September 24, 2025 |
| Failure Date | August 29, 2025 |
| VIN | JM1BL1S65A1 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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