2008 Mazda Tribute — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 251 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Steering94 (37.5%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2001–2011.
• Speed control & accelerator53 (21.1%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2001–2008.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)25 (10.0%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2001–2008.
• Electrical system16 (6.4%)
• Brakes10 (4.0%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 2001–2004.
• Engine8 (3.2%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2001–2008.

Other / uncategorized: 7 classifications (2.8%) 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 (4,186 records, model years 2001–2011) are most frequently classified under: engine, speed control & accelerator and body & structure.
• Manufacturer communications (1,554 records, model years 2001–2011) 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

• 170reports included a mileage
• 93,569average 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. 2001 777 records for 2001 777
2. 2002 557 records for 2002 557
3. 2003 353 records for 2003 353
4. 2004 303 records for 2004 303
5. 2005 521 records for 2005 521
6. 2006 242 records for 2006 242
7. 2008 335 records for 2008 335
8. 2009 173 records for 2009 173
9. 2010 182 records for 2010 182
10. 2011 50 records for 2011 50

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

• 6mention a crash
• 1mention a fire
• 12mention 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 5
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 125
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 3
• Owner complaints NHTSA 202

Explore the underlying evidence records