2003 MAZDA TRIBUTE — Complaint #568276
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NHTSA Complaint about VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:CABLES filed January 5, 2006
NHTSA complaint #568276 (ODI reference 10146998) concerns a 2003 MAZDA TRIBUTE and was filed on January 5, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 4, 2006. The vehicle had 37,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as vehicle speed control:cables, 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 TRIBUTE cohort independently describe similar vehicle speed control:cables 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 2003 MAZDA TRIBUTE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
DT*: THE CONTACT STATED WHILE DRIVING HOME AT 25 MPH THE VEHICLE SUDDENLY ACCELERATED WITHOUT WARNING. THE EMERGENCY BRAKE HAD TO BE ENGAGED AND THE KEYS REMOVED FROM THE IGNITION BEFORE THE VEHICLE STOPPED. WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS RESTARTED THE ENGINE REVVED TO THE MAXIMUM RPMS. AFTER FIVE MINUTES THE VEHICLE RESTARTED AND IT OPERATED NORMALLY. AFTER THE VEHICLE WAS DRIVEN HOME IT WAS TOWED TO THE LOCAL DEALER. WHEN THE TOW TRUCK OPERATOR STARTED THE VEHICLE HE EXPERIENCED THE SAME PROBLEM WITH THE ENGINE REVVING TO THE MAXIMUM RPMS. AT THE DEALERSHIP THE MECHANIC ALSO OBSERVED THE ENGINE REVVING AT THE HIGHEST RPMS. THIS VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED UNDER NHTSA RECALL CAMPAIGN 04V583000 CONCERNING THE VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL IN MARCH 2005. THE CONTACT WAS CONCERNED THAT RECALL REPAIRS DID NOT REMEDY THE PROBLEM. THE VEHICLE IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING DIAGNOSTIC TESTING. *AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 568276 |
| ODI Number | 10146998 |
| Date Filed | January 5, 2006 |
| Failure Date | January 4, 2006 |
| VIN | 4F2CZ06113K |
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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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