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1997 Mazda MPV Steering problems

Owners have filed 1 complaint about the 1997 Mazda MPV's steering with NHTSA - 4% of all its complaints, most recently on June 7, 2000. They describe 1 crash, 0 fires and 0 injuries. Loss of power steering, stiff or loose steering, wandering, column and rack problems.

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

Steering complaints

SteeringCrash

On four occassions my steering when going from a complete stop to changing lanes to the right lane and then correcting back to the left, got stiff and would not turn. Subsequestly this last time I ended up on the shoulder of a busy freeway during rush hour. I took the car in again as I had two times previously, to have them tell me that they were able to duplicate the problem, and find that other 1997 madza mpv's also reacted the same. It was a "normal steering function". I have two small children and I can not...

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afford to have their safety jeopordized. I have complained to mazda on two occassions and they claim there is nothing I can do. I know that if I have had this happen four times, someone else has had to have it happen, especially when we were able to make it happen on the other mpv's that were testdriven. *Ak

Filed Incident SteeringNHTSA 723719

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