2022 Mazda CX-5
This year drew an ordinary 62 complaints for a Mazda CX-5 — the model's median is 133. What they were about is the unusual part: 19.4% of them mention coming, against 5.7% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Mazda CX-5, which began in 2017. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 62 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 133 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- coming — 19.4% of this year's complaints, against 5.7% across the other years of this generation (3.4×).
- valve — 9.7% of this year's complaints, against 0.9% across the other years of this generation (11.2×).
- abnormal — 11.3% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the other years of this generation (6.7×). Owners wrote it as: abnormal, undisclosed.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
while driving at nighttime at undisclosed speeds, there was an abnormal sound coming from the headlights. No warning lights were illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a local dealer, where it was diagnosed with an unknown headlight fan bearing failure. The veh…
while driving at an undisclosed speed with the heater activated, the contact heard an abnormal explosion. The contact stated that the sunroof had exploded without impact. There was no warning prior to the failure. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechan…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Mazda CX-5 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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