# Service bulletin RF\-12\-17

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10060884
- Published by NHTSA: 2016\-03\-31
- Manufacturer's number: RF\-12\-17
- Manufacturer's date: 2012\-11\-21
- NHTSA component: POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY

## NHTSA's summary

SUMMARY TO BE PROVIDED ON A FUTURE DATE.

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Transmission and driveline, Clutch

## Vehicles listed

- 2007 to 2013 MAZDA MAZDA3
- 2008 to 2010 MAZDA MAZDA5

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [05\-001\-15\-2920](/bulletins/10100794.md), 2017-05-25, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CONCERNS: • HARD TO SHIFT INTO 3RD, 4TH, 5TH, AND/OR 6TH GEAR. • SOMETIMES THE SHIFTER MAY JUMP OUT OF 3RD GEAR OVER A ROAD BUMP WHEN ACCELERATING AFTER DECELERATION AT 25\-40 MPH \(40\-65 KM/H\) THIS IS CAUSED BY A FAILURE OF THE RELATED CLUTCH HUB\(S\). TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM OF HARD SHIFTING, THE SHAPE OF THE 3\-4 AND 5\-6 CLUTCH HUB HAS BEEN CHANGED. A SURFACE TREATMENT HAS NOW BEEN ADDED TO THE 3\-4 CLUTCH HUB TO PREVENT 3RD GEAR FROM JUMPING OUT.
- [05\-008\-14\-2920A](/bulletins/10098875.md), 2017-05-11, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY. SOME VEHICLES MAY EXHIBIT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CONCERNS: • HARD TO SHIFT INTO 3RD, 4TH, 5TH, AND/OR 6TH GEAR. • SOMETIMES THE SHIFTER MAY JUMP OUT OF 3RD GEAR OVER A ROAD BUMP WHEN ACCELERATING AFTER DECELERATION AT 25\-40 MPH \(40\-65 KM/H\) THIS IS CAUSED BY A FAILURE OF THE RELATED CLUTCH HUB\(S\). TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM OF HARD SHIFTING, THE SHAPE OF THE 3\-4 AND 5\-6 CLUTCH HUB HAS BEEN CHANGED. A SURFACE TREATMENT HAS NOW BEEN ADDED TO THE 3\-4 CLUTCH HUB TO PREVENT 3RD GEAR FROM JUMPING OUT.

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