1998 Kawasaki VN1500

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the power train › clutch assembly. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Power Train › Clutch Assembly1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Power Train › Clutch Assembly
Filed Nov 20, 2000CA

VEHICLE HAS HAD REOCCURING CLUTCH PROBLEMS MAKING THE BIKE INOPERABLE FOR MONTHS AT A TIME. NLM

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20021000Routine
20013000Routine
20002000Routine
19992100Routine
1998 — this page1000Routine
19972200Routine
19961100Routine

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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.