2001 Mazda Protege problems
Owners have filed 68 complaints with NHTSA about the 2001 Mazda Protege. Air bags is the most reported problem area, at 16% of complaints. After that come engine (16%) and brakes (13%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 68 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 16% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 18 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 16 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 51,000 miles 30 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 | 2 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 8 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 10 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 1 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 1 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 0 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 1 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 4 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 3 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Among the 30 complaints that report mileage, the typical (median) problem appeared at about 51,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 18 complaints mention a crash; 1 complaint mentions a fire; 16 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 96% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2001 ranks 7th most-complained-about out of 14 model years of the Mazda Protege with enough data (52 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
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.
3rd car in 3 car collision. Fully restrained in 3 point belt and shoulder harness. Upon frontal impact, airbag failed to deploy causing injury to driver and 7 1/2 month old fetus. Nlm
Brake failure on my 2001 mazda protege es which caused me to rear-end another vehicle. Both vehicles are total losses.
The consumer's vehicle was involved in a collision. Upon impact, none of the air bags deployed. The consumer had run a stop sign and hit another vehicle head-on while passing through an intersection.
Takata recall I bought by 2001 mazda protege a couple years ago and was never sent anything about any recalls. After pulling a car fax report there is 5 recalls all having to do with headlights. I've received a ticket for no headlights on when they were on and was recenctly in a car accident due to not seeing the other vehicle . The damage to my vehicle is on the front end including damaging my radiator which needs to replaced, bumber and grill.
While on a 300 mile trip,\ I noticed a slight noise comming from my rear end. Upon my return home, the noise got worse and I took it to a repair shop and found the brake calipers malfunctioned, and a complete rear end brake job costing over $1,000.00 was required. Since the vehicle had only 52,000 miles on it and was less than four years old I took it to the mazda dealer, and was told since it was out of warranty. All they could do was off $175.00 off the brake job(still over $1,000.00).