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Mazda MAZDA3 2017technical service bulletin

Bulletin 15-003-18-3532 · NHTSA communication 10148075 · issued Oct 26, 2018

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Visibility
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2017
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1
vehicle entries

Official summary

Some customers may complain that the Blind Spot Monitoring (BSM) system indicates that there is a vehicle in the right or left side blind spot area after the vehicle passes and is no longer there. This may becaused by the BSM control module falsely detecting a vehicle within the alert area.

Vehicles covered

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.