2005 Harley-Davidson XL883

Routine

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

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Exterior Lighting	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Exterior Lighting

Filed Jul 25, 2006600 milesNJ

PURCHASED HARLEY IN APRIL, BIKE INOPERATIVE, THEY REPLACED BATTERY & IT DIED AGAIN, THEY REPLACED VOLTAGE REGULATOR AND ON 7/19/06 AT APPROXIMATELY 10:00 PM IN CONSTRUCTION AREA OF RT I-287, BIKE LOST ALL POWER, LIGHTS HORN, THEN ENGINE. I HAD THE STATE POLICE ARRIVE & SET UP FLARES BECAUSE IT WAS VERY DARK & THERE WAS HEAVY TRACTOR TRAILER AND CONSTRUCTION TRAFFIC. STATE POLICE WANTED ME TO PUSH NEW BIKE OFF HIGHWAY. AAA CAME & TOWED BACK TO MY HOME, THEN DEALER PICKED UP FOR THE THIRD TIME AND I AM NOT IN POSSESSION OF THE VEHICLE. I AM A CLAIM REP FOR AN INSURANCE CO & IT IS HAZARDOUS TO LOSE ALL POWER ON A MAJOR HIGHWAY AT NIGHT ON A MOTORCYCLE. *JB

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2014

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Assessment
2014	3	0	Routine
2009	1	0	Routine
2008	1	0	Routine
2007	2	3	Routine
2006	1	0	Routine
2005 — this page	1	0	Routine
2004	3	0	Routine
2003	1	1	Routine
2002	2	0	Routine

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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.