Car Problem DataNHTSA records

2003 Honda GL1500C

Routine

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

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Latches/Locks/Linkages1
100

What owners reported

Newest filings
Latches/Locks/LinkagesCrash
Filed May 30, 20097,000 milesCA

HONDA CRUISER MOTORCYCLES DO NOT INDICATE WHEN HANDLEBARS ARE LOCKED CAUSING HANDLEBARS TO POSSIBLY BE LOCKED WHILE STARTING AND RIDING VEHICLE. IT IS ONLY AFTER THE RIDER ATTEMPTS TO STEER THE VEHICLE AT SPEED DO THEY FIND THAT THE HANDLEBARS ARE STILL LOCKED. I OWN A 2003 HONDA VALKYRIE AND WAS INVOLVED IN A CRASH WHEN I BELIEVED THAT THE HANDLEBARS WERE PREVIOUSLY LOCKED, BUT THEY WERE ACTUALLY UNLOCKED. I TURNED THE LOCK TUMBLER AND PROCEEDED TO START THE MOTORCYCLE AND RIDE AWAY AND THEN CRASH AT WHICH TIME I REALIZED THAT I HAD LOCKED THE HANDLEBARS INSTEAD OF UNLOCKED THEM. I EXAMINED THE CURRENT MODEL OF HONDA CRUISER 2009 AND THE STEERING LOCK MECHANISM IS DESIGNED THE SAME WITH NO INDICATION OF THE HANDLEBARS BEING LOCKED OR UNLOCKED AND NO IGNITION LOCKOUT MECHANISM OR INDICATOR IF THE HANDLEBARS ARE STILL LOCKED. THE LOCKING MECHANISM TURN 180 DEGREES TO LOCK OR UNLOCK THE HANDLEBARS. IN ADDITION THE IGNITION AND HANDLEBAR LOCK IS LOCATED IN DIFFERENT SPOTS ON THE VEHICLE INSTEAD OF BEING A COMBO IGNITION/LOCK MECHANISM. *TR

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.