2023 Kawasaki ZX-6R

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the wheels. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Wheels	1		1	0	1
Fuel/Propulsion System	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Fuel/Propulsion System

Filed Nov 25, 2023WV

I've owned this vehicle since new. Purchased in 9/2022. Since then the code 62 has been set twice by the ECU, causing the throttle to hang-up at or near 4000 RPM. I had to turn off the ignition as well as the key. After restarting, the vehicle runs fine. The dealer looked at it & performed diagnostics, however when the vehicle is running well. They are unable to find a problem. This code & throttle hang-up issue is unpredictable & intermittent. Throttle hanging up at high RPM is scary & unsafe. Thanks!

WheelsCrash1 injured

Filed Nov 21, 2022UT

I was in low power mode with three traction control and was coming out of a turn, the back tire lost traction and was spinning. I almost did a complete 180 and was then upended over the bike. There wasn't any gravel, it hadn't rained, there weren't any obstacles in the road and there was no reason the back tire should have lost traction. Especially with the technology of the ZX6R with three levels of traction control.

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2007

Year	Complaints	Assessment
2023 — this page	2	Routine
2009	1	Routine
2007	15	Routine

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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.