2006 Arctic Cat 700 Efi

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the suspension. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Suspension	1		1	0	2

What owners reported

Newest filings

SuspensionCrash2 injured

Filed Mar 20, 2019SC

RIGHT FRONT BALL JOINT SEPARATED FROM A-ARM DUE TO THE PINCH BOLT THREADS WEARING. CATASTROPHIC INJURY TO RIDERS OCCURRED. BALL JOINTS ON THIS MODEL (AND MANY OTHERS BY AC, KAWASAKI, ETC), ARE SECURED TO THE A-ARM WITH A PINCH BOLT. OEM FOR THE BOLT WAS A FULLY THREADED CAP SCREW. THE THREADS CAN WEAR, THUS NOT ENGAGING WITH THE GROVE IN THE SPINDLE OF THE BALL JOINT. EVEN WITH THE CAP SCREW IN PLACE AND PROPERLY TORQUED, THE BALL JOINT CAN SEPARATE AND LEAD TO LOSS OF CONTROL. IN THIS CASE, BALL JOINT SEPARATED, DRIVER LOST CONTROL, ROLLED, AND SUFFERED A CATASTROPHIC INJURY. THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT.

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.