Mazda CX-30 — reported problems

CarFaultIQ holds 3,792 evidence records for the Mazda CX-30 (2020–2026), drawn from official sources and owner complaints.

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 772 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

  • Engine134 (17.4%)
  • Driver-assistance systems114 (14.8%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2024.
  • Electrical system88 (11.4%)
  • Brakes68 (8.8%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2020–2023.
  • Visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors)38 (4.9%)
  • Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)34 (4.4%)

Other / uncategorized: 94 classifications (12.2%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

  • Owner complaints (494 records, model years 2020–2026) are most frequently classified under: engine, driver-assistance systems and electrical system.
  • Manufacturer communications (3,267 records, model years 2020–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, equipment & accessories and engine.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

  • 56reports included a mileage
  • 16,303average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

  1. 2020 717 records for 2020
  2. 2021 711 records for 2021
  3. 2022 445 records for 2022
  4. 2023 334 records for 2023
  5. 2024 264 records for 2024
  6. 2025 168 records for 2025
  7. 2026 64 records for 2026

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

  • 50mention a crash
  • 2mention a fire
  • 42mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

  • Safety recalls NHTSA 17
  • Manufacturer communications NHTSA 3,267
  • Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 14
  • Owner complaints NHTSA 494

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Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

  • P0126 in 127 records · 2020–2026
  • U3000 in 51 records · 2020–2024
  • P2B61 in 28 records · 2020–2024
  • P250F in 12 records · 2021–2022
  • U0300 in 9 records · 2020–2021
  • C0023 in 7 records · 2020–2026
  • P0524 in 7 records · 2020–2021
  • P073D in 6 records · 2023–2025
  • P1260 in 6 records · 2020–2025
  • P20F8 in 5 records · 2023–2025
  • P0171 in 4 records · 2020–2023
  • P055F in 4 records · 2020–2021

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.

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