Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Vaquero

Owners filed 5 complaints across 6 model years of the Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Vaquero. The 2011 drew the most (2).

Model years6
Complaints5
Recalls5
Fires0
Deaths0

Which Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Vaquero years should you avoid?

Not enough of the record to single a year out. Fewer than 4 Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Vaquero model years have at least 25 complaints and are old enough to judge, so any ranking would be noise. The table below has every year as filed.

How this is worked out: each year is compared with a typical year of the same model, which takes most of the difference in sales out of it, and its share of serious failures is compared with every other car of the same model year, because older cars were complained about differently. A year needs 25 complaints to be judged at all. Complaints are unverified owner reports. Full method →

Every Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Vaquero model year compared

Complaints per year
YearComplaintsRelative volumeRecallsFiresCrashesMost reportedStatus
20150
1———Routine
20141
1——Service BrakesRoutine
20131
1——SteeringRoutine
20120
1———Routine
20112
1——Unknown or OtherRoutine
20091
0——SteeringRoutine

Data: NHTSA complaint and recall files, October 2026. Complaints are unverified owner reports.