2025 Kawasaki Z500

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the equipment › motorcycle › helmets. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Equipment › Motorcycle › Helmets1
101

What owners reported

Newest filings
Equipment › Motorcycle › HelmetsCrash1 injured
Filed Feb 4, 2026CA

The contact owns a 2025 Kawasaki Z500 equipped with an LS2 Helmet, Helmet Model: Advant 2, and Model Number: FF910. The contact stated that while driving 40 MPH, another vehicle failed to yield, causing the motorcycle to crash into the side of the vehicle. The contact was knocked unconscious. The contact was transported to the hospital by an ambulance. The contact stated that the modular helmet was equipped with a chin guard, and the chin guard compressed against the contact's face during the incident, causing the contact to sustain broken teeth and a fractured jaw. The contact received medical assistance. The motorcycle was towed and might be a total loss. A police report was filed. The contact had not noticed any visible fracture on the helmet. The helmet manufacturer was not contacted. The helmet was not replaced.

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2025
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
2025 — this page1000Routine
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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.