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1994 Mazda 929 Engine problems

Owners have filed 3 complaints about the 1994 Mazda 929's engine & cooling with NHTSA - 23% of all its complaints, most recently on January 15, 2004. They describe 1 crash, 0 fires and 1 injury. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.

Complaints
3
Recalls
0
Crashes
1
Fires
0
Injuries
1
Deaths
0

Engine complaints

Engine & coolingEquipment & accessories

1994 Mazda 929 has been experiencing unintended acceleration problems. Have not gotten it fixed yet so I don't know what it will cost.

Filed Incident Engine and engine cooling · EquipmentNHTSA 10069599
Engine & coolingVisibility & wipersAirbagsCrash1 injury

Sun roof/driver window/left rear window and right rear window came down while driving on its own,and the motor will not assist in helping the window to go back up. Also my car is stalling while driving approximately 17 miles. The car does a jerking motion before stalling. Finally, the passenger's air bag is warped, and detached from the dashboard. *Ak

Filed Incident Engine and engine cooling · Visibility · Air bagsNHTSA 704688
Engine & coolingElectrical system

My spouse was on her way to work when the car engine was rough idling and stalled. No engine light or instrument warning indicator came on. The car was towed to a local mazda service dealer the same day. We contacted the service dept on 01/07/99 and learned that the car had a failure, an electrical short in one of the six ignition wires. We also learned that unburned fuel due to this ignition wire failure pass through to the catalyst converters and damaged the left catalytic converter (ruptured). The estimate...

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given to us by the mazda dealer for replacement parts + labor was $1300 for replacing 3 converters. Mazda indicated the emission system (including the converters) was not covered by either our extended warranty or by mazda. All failed parts involved were original mazda for mazda 929. I and my spouse extremely concern of driving this vehicle based on this incident. There should be a recall for mazda 929's to check the ignition wires and exhaust systems at their expense at the next scheduled maintenance interval. *Ak

Filed Incident Engine and engine cooling · Electrical systemNHTSA 702590

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