2025 Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Voyager ABS Severe Safety Hazard: Intermittent, sudden, violent unintended acceleration and deceleration at highway speeds (70+ mph), immediately followed by total loss of engine power/shutdown. Incident Details: While traveling at highway speeds, the motorcycle experiences rapid unprovoked throttle surges and drops, creating extreme motorcycle instability and near-loss of control, before stalling completely in active traffic lanes. Repair History & Manufacturer Failure: Dealership has replaced throttle body, ECU, ignition coils, fuel pump, and kill switch over multi-month period without resolution. The dealership/manufacturer now claim a faulty kill switch as the root cause, which fails to explain the preceding unprompted highway acceleration surges. Neither manufacturer nor dealership will sign an affirmation of repair and safety certification or release diagnostic data for this motorcycle.
2025 Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Voyager
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the electrical system. No safety recall has been issued.
Most common 2025 Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Voyager problems
1 of the 1 complaints (100%) are about the electrical system.
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical System | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsAll 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.