2001 Mazda 626 problems
Owners have filed 235 complaints with NHTSA about the 2001 Mazda 626. Transmission is the most reported problem area, at 57% of complaints. Next are engine (8%) and air bags (5%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 235 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Transmission 57% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 12 and 5
- Injuries and deaths
- 13 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 73,000 miles 170 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 7 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 26 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 33 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 28 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 31 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 27 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 8 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 9 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 1 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 170 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 73,000 miles. For transmission specifically, the median reported mileage is about 80,000 miles (109 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 12 complaints mention a crash; 5 complaints mention a fire; 13 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2001 ranks 6th most-complained-about out of 12 model years of the Mazda 626 with enough data (161 complaints in that window).
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Vehicle involved in a frontal collision with a 1984 dodge, 6000; at 35 MPH. Upon impact, both air bags did not deploy. Dealer / manufacturer were notified. *slc
My son hit a telephone pole after he hit some black ice. He was going about 30MPH and the air bags never deployed. I have pictures of the car inside and out if you would like for me to forward them to you. Mazda is really passing the buck. I am thankful my son only had a broken wrist and had to have surgery to put a screw in. It could have been a fatality. I wouldn't want another family to go through something like this. Please contact me with any information you may have to get some results out of mazda.
During a total frontal collision, where my mazda rear-ended a lexus SUV, at a speed b/t 25 and 30 MPH, the frontal airbags did not deploy. There was over $5600 worth of damage to the front end of my car due to the force of the collision. However, the airbags did not deploy. I suffered muscular and compression injuries in this collision. Medical care was sought for these injuries. These injuries may have been prevented had the airbags deployed correctly.
My 2001 mazda 626 LX would jerk extremely hard when starting off until speeds reached around 25+MPH this happened since the day the car was purchased even after taking the car to the dealer for repairs the car still jerked when increasing speeds. Just recently while going to work the car would not move in reverse and barley move in drive after getting half way to work I stopped at a stop sign and the car would not move only rev up that's when I called a towing service to drop my car off to a garage after the…
2001 mazda 626 right rear tire sidewall split in two areas. Consumer states that left rear tire was inspected and had similar cracking forming. Consumer was informed that the warranty does not cover that type of damage. The wiper blades were replaced. The engine light illuminated due to a bad egr flow which was clogged due to carbon build-up.