Consumer Complaint Detail

MAZDA / 626 / 1994

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NHTSA Complaint Number: 006088974 Incident Date: Dec, 17 2006
Consumer's City: YORKTOWN HEIGHTS Consumer's State: NY
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO Manufacturers Name: Mazda Motor Corp.
Model Name: 626 Model Year: 1994
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#: 1YVGE22C6R5 Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: Dec, 17 2006 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Sep, 07 1995
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: No
Number of Cylinders: 4 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: Repetitive automatic transmission failures on my 1994 mazda 626 already cost me many thousands dollars. history: december 1992 - initial transmission error codes. authorized mazda repair service changed transmission filter and fluid. codes were coming back. installed extra cooler. may 1993 - total transmission failure; tranny rebuilt at st. james transmission repair shop; warranty 1 year or 12k miles; march 1995 - transmission error codes back and unexplainable failures. took it to lee myles in yonkers - gave me 2 years warranty. on the way home signal was back. since then the car was back in the store for more than 6 months. during that time lee myles many times open and repaired transmission to fix tr, installed another extra cooler, replaced my original radiator, replaced main electrical wiring system and many other parts. i had also my engine inspected and tuned several times in another shops, including replacing of fuel pump, spark plugs and wires, distributor and other. however transmission was failing again and again. car had to be towed away by lee myles 3 times and i drove it several times at slow speed on side roads back to the lee myles. finally lee myles bought me a factory rebuild transmission and for about 2 weeks everything looked nice again. then after 20 miles of driving at highway speed rpm started to go up and the error code came back again. since then i am using my car only very locally and after about $10,000 (yes 10k) spent on transmission repairs and car upgrades, my mazda 626 is junk i cannot even sell. *jb