2002 Kawasaki VN1500

Routine

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

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline
Filed Oct 23, 2002GA

VALVES CLICKING KAWASAKI SAYS IT IS NORMAL. NOT SO ON OTHERS. REPLACED 4 LIFTERS AND STILL HAVE NOISE ON THE OTHER 4 DRAGGING FEET. DT

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
2002 — this page1000Routine
20013000Routine
20002000Routine
19992100Routine
19981000Routine
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.