Spiders are the last culprits Mazda might have expected to cause a major safety recall.
But the Japanese manufacturer is asking for 67,000 Mazda 6 cars to be returned over fears that the insects could cause enough damage to set the fuel tanks on fire.
Yellow sac spiders like to build their nests in parts of the fuel system, it said, which can cause the tank to crack and leak when they weave a web in a connected vent.
Mazda has been baffled by why the yellow sac spider likes to nest inside its cars.
‘A certain type of spider may weave a web in the evaporative canister vent line and this may cause a restriction in the line,’ it said in a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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