Customer Information and Reporting Safety Defects
Customer Assistance
(6) months after the expiration of
the warranty.
3. To file a claim with BBB AUTO LINE,
call 1-800-955-5100. There is no
charge for the call.
4. In order to file a claim with BBB
AUTO LINE, you will have to
provide your name and address,
the brand name and vehicle
use BBB AUTO LINE before
exercising rights or seeking
remedies created by Title I of the
Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, 15
U.S.C. sec. 2301 et seq. If you
choose to seek redress by pursuing
rights and remedies not created by
California Civil Code Section
1793.22 or Title I of the
identification number (VIN) of your
vehicle, and a statement of the
nature of your problem or
Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act,
resort to BBB AUTO LINE is not
required by those statutes.
complaint. You will also be asked to
provide: the approximate date of
your acquisition of the vehicle, the
vehicle's current mileage, the
approximate date and mileage at
the time any problem(s) were first
brought to the attention of Mazda
or one of our dealers, and a
7. California Civil Code Section
1793.2 (d) requires that, if Mazda
or its representative is unable to
repair a new motor vehicle to
conform to the vehicle's applicable
express warranty after a reasonable
number of attempts, Mazda may be
required to replace or repurchase
the vehicle. California Civil Code
Section 1793.22 (b) creates a
presumption that Mazda has had a
reasonable number of attempts to
conform the vehicle to its
statement of the relief you are
seeking.
5. BBB AUTO LINE staff may try to
help resolve your dispute through
mediation. If mediation is not
successful, or if you do not wish to
participate in mediation, claims
within the program's jurisdiction
may be presented to an arbitrator
at an informal hearing. The
applicable express warranties if,
within 18 months from delivery to
the buyer or 18,000 miles on the
vehicle's odometer, whichever
occurs first, one or more of the
following occurs:
arbitrator's decision should
ordinarily be issued within 40 days
from the time your complaint is
filed; there may be a delay of 7
days if you did not first contact
Mazda about your problem, or a
delay of up to 30 days if the
arbitrator requests an inspection/
report by an impartial technical
expert or further investigation and
report by BBB AUTO LINE.
The same nonconformity [a
failure to conform to the written
warranty that substantially impairs
the use, value or safety of the
vehicle] results in a condition that
is likely to cause death or serious
bodily injury if the vehicle is
driven AND the nonconformity
has been subject to repair two or
more times by Mazda or its
agents AND the buyer or lessee
has directly notified Mazda of the
need for the repair of the
6. You are required to use BBB AUTO
LINE before asserting in court any
rights or remedies conferred by
California Civil Code Section
1793.22. You are also required to
nonconformity; OR
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