Five problems related to front air bag have been reported for the 2000 Mazda Protege. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2000 Mazda Protege based on all problems reported for the 2000 Protege.
I don't remember the exact date of failure but it was close to the date I provided. I was driving down the road and my 2000 Mazda Protege started bucking. When I called the dealership and told them that I thought the transmission went bad they treated me like I didn't know what I was talking about. Sure enough I dropped it off and they dianosed it with a bad transmission. It was 2000 miles out of warranty. Thankfully Mazda paid for the transmission being so recent out of warranty but I had to pay $700. 00 in labor. Since then I have found that those vehicles were plagued with that problem and since then the car just hasn't driven like it used too. I am sadly dissapointed since I used to work at a Mazda dealership and the Mazda b4000 I had also purchased has problems too.
While driving at 30mph was involved in frontal collision, and none of the air bags deployed on impact, causing injuries.
Front crash at 35 mph and neither airbag deployed. Driver suffered a heart attack, still in hospital. Damage to vehicle unknown at this time.
Vehicle was rearended while at a stop by vehicle driven about 40 mph, was pushed into vehicle in front of it. Neither airbag deployed, vehicle was totalled. Consumer suffered neck and back injuries.
Consumer was traveling 45mph and rearended a SUV head- on. Hitting a fire hydrant and sign, but airbags still didn't deploy. Consumer was consulting manufacturer on no deployment. Consumer please ad the VIN#.