Tl* the contact owned a 1998 mazda mvp. The contact stated that while driving the vehicle at 55 mph, the engine caught on fire. The contact extinguished the fire. A police report was not filed. The contact did not sustain any injuries. The vehicle was destroyed. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 300,000.
Engine & cooling
1998 Mazda MPV Engine problems
Owners have filed 2 complaints about the 1998 Mazda MPV's engine & cooling with NHTSA - 11% of all its complaints, most recently on January 14, 2016. They describe 0 crashes, 1 fire and 0 injuries. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.
- Complaints
- 2
- Recalls
- 0
- Crashes
- 0
- Fires
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- Deaths
- 0
Engine complaints
We do not feel that we should have to replace the fowlerers when it is part of the engine. The vehicle is still under 50,000 mile and the inservice date is 5-29-1998. Its only 3 months after the factory warranty. Whick means it was problay bad at the time it was still under warranty. We had only had it 2 weeks before we heard tapping coming from the engine,. We took it to rose city motors and they told us it was bad fowlers and mazda said we should replace all fowlerers whick cost 1,500.00 Dollars. They are...
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will to only charge us half. We do not consider this as fair. The engine is a major part of a vehicle. Its scary to think your buying a good vehicle and something is wrong with the motor already.*Ak
Mazda MPV engine complaints by year
MPV engine problems, every yearSource: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) complaints and recalls, checked . Complaints are owners' own reports and are not verified. How we use the data