Total Complaints
1 filings
MAZDA MAZDA · model year
1 NHTSA complaints for this specific cohort.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The 1984MAZDAMAZDA carries 1 consumer safety complaint in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 0 fires, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
Component-level analysis is where model-year complaints become actionable: the top complaint category for the 1984 MAZDA is service brakes, hydraulic with 1 filings. Concentration in one or two component groups is the classic signature of a systemic defect; a flat distribution usually reflects normal aging, warranty complaints, or isolated build-plant variability.
NHTSA currently has 12 investigation files overlapping the 1984 MAZDA, and 1 remain open. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should pair the counters above with the complaint-by-year trend on the parent model page — a spike in a single year often tracks to a platform refresh, a new transmission supplier, or an updated ECU calibration. Use the related-complaint feed below to read raw owner narratives before deciding whether any pattern here affects your specific use case.
Total Complaints
1 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC | 1 |
I NOTICE THAT IN FORIEGN CARS THE BRAKE PEDDLE IS TO CLOSE TO THE GAS PEDDLE SO THAT WHEN YOU BRAKE, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT YOUR FOOT WILL TOUCH THE GAS PEDDLE ,( IF IT IS NOT CENTERED ON THE BRAKE PEDDLE), WHEN BRAKING SO THAT YOUR ARE ACCELERATING & BRAKING AT THE SAME TIME. THIS MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE CASE OF TOYOTA..
Momentary increase in steering effort after recall remedy
Inadvertent Curtain Air Bag Deployment
Lower ball joint separation
Brake Booster Failure
Brake master cylinder leak
Data as of 2025. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.