2006 Hi-Bird QH200GY

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the exterior lighting › headlights › high/low beam dimmer switch. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Exterior Lighting › Headlights › High/Low Beam Dimmer Switch	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Exterior Lighting › Headlights › High/Low Beam Dimmer Switch

Filed Aug 25, 20071,434 milesWA

I PURCHASED A 2006 UNITED MOTORS DS200 IN SEPTEMBER 2006. TODAY THE HEADLIGHT AND TAIL LIGHT FAILED AS I RODE THE MOTORCYCLE. THE PROBLEM WAS IN THE LOW BEAM TO HIGH BEAM SWITCH. THE INTERNALS OF THE SWITCH HAD ACTUALLY CRUMBLED APART CAUSING BOTH FRONT AND REAR LIGHTS TO FAIL. I WAS ABLE TO DO A ROADSIDE REPAIR TO GET THE LIGHTS WORKING ON GET HOME SAFELY. THE MOTORCYCLE HAS ONLY 1,434 MILES ON IT WHEN THE SWITCH FAILED (ALL THE BULBS WERE IN WORKING ORDER). I FEEL THAT HAVING THE LIGHTS GO OUT ON A MOTORCYCLE IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. BEING SEEN IS HARD ENOUGH WITH WORKING EQUIPMENT, NOT HAVING ANY LIGHTS CAN BE LETHAL. *TR

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2008

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Deaths	Assessment
2008	1	0	0	0	Routine
2006 — this page	1	0	0	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.