2004 MAZDA RX-8 — Complaint #781774
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY:PEDAL/HAND LEVER(MOTORCYCLE) filed April 16, 2010
NHTSA complaint #781774 (ODI reference 10325980) concerns a 2004 MAZDA RX-8 and was filed on April 16, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 12, 2009. The vehicle had 79,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:clutch assembly:pedal/hand lever(motorcycle), 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 RX-8 cohort independently describe similar power train:clutch assembly:pedal/hand lever(motorcycle) 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 RX-8 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
MY 2004 MAZDA RX8 CLUTCH PEDAL SNAP OFF WHILE I WAS DRIVING HOME... *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 781774 |
| ODI Number | 10325980 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2010 |
| Failure Date | October 12, 2009 |
| VIN | JM1FE173240 |
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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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