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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 005018976 | Incident Date: Apr, 19 2005 |
| Consumer's City: TUCSON | Consumer's State: AZ |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Mazda Motor Corp. |
| Model Name: 626 | Model Year: 1995 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Power train:automatic transmission |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: 1YVGE22C6S5 | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: May, 05 2005 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Apr, 30 1998 |
| Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: No |
| Number of Cylinders: 4 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: I bought a 95 mazda 626 4 cyl automatic transmission in 1998. not long after i bought the car i had the typical 30/60/90 thousand mile service done. replaced all belts, hoses, transmission fluid, timing belt, etc. it seemed as there was no warning when the transmission went out. we were driving back from the store and it started slipping between shifting of gears, and then it just locked up and almost caused an accident. i had to tow it in and had the transmission rebuilt. every internal part was replaced for about $2500.00 i bought the extended three year warranty for it. about six months later my wife was on a trip with her friend and again with no warning the transmission started acting up. she had the car towed to aamco, which is where whe had the transmission rebuilt. the checked it out and found nothing wrong with the car. we got the car back and it seemed to be doing okay. about 6 months before the warranty ran out on the transmission we noticed it started slipping again, but not that bad. we took it in once again and aamco said there was nothing wrong. we have babied this car to make it last. now about three-four weeks ago we noticed the transmission has started slipping again really bad. this report is two-fold, the first for mazda who has known this is a bad transmission since 1993, and second for aamco who should've looked into the transmission better the last time we brought it in. if you type 1995 mazda transmission into a search engine on the net, you will come up with many opinion sites with people complaining about this transmission. everybody with a mazda 626 and mx6 from 1993 to 2002. it seems the problem is that the transmission gets too hot. it also seems that mazda knows this, yet they do not tell peoplehow to prevent the problem. in my best knowledge of the problem, if mazda would rebuild all the transmissions, install a transmission cooler, and offer yearly fluid changes, no where near as many people would have this problem. |
