1997 Harley-Davidson Road King

Routine

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

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine1
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What owners reported

Newest filings
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine
Filed May 30, 2001MA

CONSUMER'S 2000 MOTORCYCLE HAS A TICKING NOISE, AND WON'T START. ON HIGHWAY ENGINE LOCKED UP. *AK WHILE ON HIGHWAY ENGINE STARTED MAKING A NOISE , ALL OF A SUDDEN THE ENGINE STOPPED AND THE BACK WHEEL SKIDDED, CONSUMER IMMEDIATELY PULLED THE CLUTCH WHICH FREED THE BACK WHEEL FROM SKIDDING AND PULLED INTO THE BREAK DOWN LANE, CONSUMER RECEIVED A LETTER ABOUT DEFECRIVE CAM BEARING, BUT THEY WOULD NOT FIX UNTIL THEY FAILED.*JB *JB

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2004
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
200410100Routine
20031000Routine
20026000Routine
20018000Routine
19994000Routine
19983000Routine
1997 — this page1000Routine

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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.