DEAR SIRS, JULY 10, 2016 I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET A FIX FOR POOR BRAKING ON MY 2013 HARLEY DYNA WITH ABS SINCE ABOUT 2 MONTHS AFTER BUYING IT NEW FROM SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA HARLEY. IN THE BEGINNING I EVEN THOUGHT IT WAS ME, BUT AFTER LETTING A FRIEND TRY THE BIKE , HE CONFIRMED THE VERY POOR BRAKING. HOW COULD THIS HAVE PASSED GOVERNMENTS TEST FOR BRAKING DISTANCE. I LOVE THE ABS AND WOULD NOT OWN A BIKE WITHOUT IT,( LIKE A CAR) BUT HATE THAT IT SO POOR IN STOPPING DISTANCE. BECAUSE I HAD A PREVIOUS HARLEY WITH DUAL FRONT DISCS WHICH HAD GOOD STOPPING, I THOUGHT IT WAS BECAUSE HARLEY WAS TRYING TO SAVE MONEY AND ONLY HAVE ONE DISC ON THE FRONT( I STILL THINK THEY NEED DUAL FRONT DISCS). I CONTACTED THE DEALER SEVERAL TIMES , BUT THEY SAID THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO. THEN I CALLED HARLEY AND THEY ALSO REFUSED ANY HELP. I EVEN VOLUNTEERED TO RETURN THE BIKE TO THE FACTORY, BUT THEY REFUSED AND SENT ME BACK TO THE DEALER. THE DEALER DID NOTHING BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE DONE ACCORDING TO THE HARLEY FACTORY AND MY STOPPING PROBLEM WAS IN MY HEAD. I EVEN TRIED TO TRADE IN MY BIKE , BUT THEY OFFERED ME PENNIES. DURING THAT TIME I DID POST MANY TIMES ON THE HARLEY FORUM WEB SITE ABOUT MY PROBLEM, BUT THOUGH THERE WERE MANY WITH THE SAME PROBLEM NO ONE COULD DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE NO ONE KNEW HOW TO GET DUAL FRONT DISCS WITH ABS INSTALLED. THEN ABOUT A YEAR LATER THE HARLEY COMPANY CAME OUT WITH DUAL DISCS CALLED THE LOW RIDER. IT WAS A SMASH HIT, AND SOLD OUT IN ALL DEALERS
2013 Harley-Davidson Fxdb
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the service brakes. No safety recall has been issued.
What fails
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Brakes | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsService Brakes
Filed Jul 10, 2016CA
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.