2001 MAZDA TRIBUTE — Complaint #931114
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NHTSA Complaint about VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:CABLES filed July 30, 2012
NHTSA complaint #931114 (ODI reference 10468233) concerns a 2001 MAZDA TRIBUTE and was filed on July 30, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 4, 2009. The vehicle had 103,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas 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 2001 MAZDA TRIBUTE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2001 MAZDA TRIBUTE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING 55 MPH THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL WAS ABNORMALLY DEPRESSED INTO THE FLOORBOARD AND BECAME STUCK, CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO ACCELERATE RAPIDLY. THE CONTACT HAD TO SHIFT INTO NEUTRAL IN ORDER TO STOP THE VEHICLE. THE CONTACT DISCOVERED THE THROTTLE CABLE HAD BECOME LODGED BETWEEN THE ENGINE MOTOR PLATE. THE CONTACT PULLED THE PLATE OFF AND CORRECTED THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 103,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 150,000. UPDATED 09/05/12*LJ UPDATED 09/05/12
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 931114 |
| ODI Number | 10468233 |
| Date Filed | July 30, 2012 |
| Failure Date | May 4, 2009 |
| VIN | 4F2CU081X1K |
Similar VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:CABLES Complaints for 2001 MAZDA TRIBUTE
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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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