Mazda Recall: Spiders
I’m sure there’s a Zoom-Zoom joke in there somewhere. I’m actually a big fan of the Mazda 6. Of all the copycat sedans on the market, the 6 offers the most steering and chassis feedback, though this current generation got fatter and heavier to appeal to Camcordaltimabu buyers.
Under the heading of strangest recalls ever, Mazda today is weaving the most bizarre of all: 52,000 Mazda6 in the U.S. are being recalled because of possible spider webs. The fear is that they can lead to blockages that will eventually cause fuel tanks to leak.
The recall of 2009 and 2010 Mazda6s is due to “a certain type of spider” that “may weave a web in the evaporative canister vent line and this may cause a restriction in the line,” the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says on its website. Another 13,000 of the cars sold in Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico are also being recalled.
I KNEW I shouldn’t have bought my Mazda Protege, god knows how long spiders have had to breed in that thing since 1998!