2008 Mazda CX-9 — reported problems

CarFaultIQ holds 445 evidence records for the 2008 Mazda CX-9, drawn from official sources and owner complaints.

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 234 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

  • Suspension56 (23.9%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2007–2016.
  • Brakes31 (13.2%)
  • Air bags (restraint system)28 (12.0%)Official recall records for this system: 9, covering model years 2007–2018.
  • Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)28 (12.0%)
  • Steering19 (8.1%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2013–2015.
  • Tires & wheels17 (7.3%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2019.

Other / uncategorized: 11 classifications (4.7%) 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 (2,964 records, model years 2007–2023) are most frequently classified under: brakes, engine and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).
  • Manufacturer communications (6,912 records, model years 2007–2023) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system 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

  • 127reports included a mileage
  • 98,213average 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. 2007 375 records for 2007
  2. 2008 445 records for 2008
  3. 2009 328 records for 2009
  4. 2010 484 records for 2010
  5. 2011 473 records for 2011
  6. 2012 518 records for 2012
  7. 2013 394 records for 2013
  8. 2014 335 records for 2014
  9. 2015 284 records for 2015
  10. 2016 717 records for 2016
  11. 2017 573 records for 2017
  12. 2018 599 records for 2018
  13. 2019 449 records for 2019
  14. 2020 347 records for 2020
  15. 2021 460 records for 2021
  16. 2022 283 records for 2022
  17. 2023 226 records for 2023

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

  • 10mention a crash
  • 5mention 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 6
  • Manufacturer communications NHTSA 261
  • Investigations NHTSA 2
  • Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 4
  • Owner complaints NHTSA 172

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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.

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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