2025 Mazda CX-5: owner complaints and recalls

The 2025 Mazda CX-5 has no recall campaigns on file, but owners have still filed 25 complaints, most often about service brakes.

25
Complaints
0
Recalls
4
Crash reports
0
Fire reports
4
Injuries
192.0
Severity index

Severity index 192.0 - High. It weights crashes, fires, injuries and fatalities per 100 complaints, so a vehicle attracting serious reports scores above one attracting many trivial ones (how this is calculated).

Middle half of all tracked vehiclesThis vehicle: 192.0p25 35p75 96cleanestworst
Where the 2025 Mazda CX-5 sits against the quartiles of every vehicle we track.

What actually fails

Service BrakesService Brakes: 9 complaints (36.0%)9 36%Unknown Or OtherUnknown Or Other: 7 complaints (28.0%)7 28%Forward Collision Avoid…Forward Collision Avoidance: 6 complaints (24.0%)6 24%Electrical SystemElectrical System: 5 complaints (20.0%)5 20%EngineEngine: 5 complaints (20.0%)5 20%Vehicle Speed ControlVehicle Speed Control: 5 complaints (20.0%)5 20%SteeringSteering: 3 complaints (12.0%)3 12%VisibilityVisibility: 2 complaints (8.0%)2 8%
Systems named in complaints. One complaint can name several, so shares overlap.
ComponentComplaintsShare of complaints citing it
SERVICE BRAKES936.0%
UNKNOWN OR OTHER728.0%
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE624.0%
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM520.0%
ENGINE520.0%
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL520.0%
STEERING312.0%
VISIBILITY28.0%

Complaints filed per year

08172025: 82026: 17 (partial year)252617
Complaints filed per calendar year, not model year. The hatched bar is the current year and is still incomplete.
YearComplaints
20258
2026 (year to date)17
Source. US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration public complaint and recall APIs (api.nhtsa.gov), retrieved 2026-07-25. Complaints are unverified consumer reports; volume is influenced by how many units were sold and how long the vehicle has been on the road. Not affiliated with NHTSA or any manufacturer.