19V782000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
2008 MAZDA CX-9
4 safety recall campaigns, 3 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 2 defect investigations, 234 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
3 campaigns covering the 2008 MAZDA CX-9 carry NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns4
Park it3stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints234
Complaints citing a crash14
Complaints citing a fire0
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 4 of 4
17V457000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
17V429000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
15V451000
SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:LOWER ARM
Over time, the ball joint corrosion may result in the front lower control arm separating from the ball joint, causing a loss of steering control and increasing the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 54SUSPENSION
- 27AIR BAGS
- 25POWER TRAIN
- 23SERVICE BRAKES
- 18STEERING
- 16WHEELS
- 13ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 11UNKNOWN OR OTHER
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2008 MAZDA CX-9s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.