1999 Kawasaki ZX1100

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the power train › automatic transmission. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Power Train › Automatic Transmission	1		0	0	0
Fuel System, Gasoline › Carburetor System	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Fuel System, Gasoline › Carburetor System

Filed Sep 20, 2000WI

FUEL AIR SCREWS WERE TURNED ALL THE WAY IN AT THE FACTORY, VEHICLE NEEDED VALVE ADJUSTMENT, CARBORATORS ADJUSTED 4 TIME WITH NO SUCCESS, DEALER SCRATCHED EXHAUST CANISTER, WINDSCREEN, DROPPED MOTORCYCLE ON ITS SIDE DURING WHEN BEING SERVICED & REFUSES TO MAKE ALL NEEDED REPAIRS, ENGINE EMITS INFREQUENT BUT LOUD NOISE AT SPEEDS OF ~ 30 MPH, KAWASAKI DIDN'T INSTALL GREASE INTO THE SWING ARM PRIOR TO DELIVERY, HEADLIGHT IMPORPERLY ADJUSTED BY DEALERS, PAINT CHIPS EASILY FROM EXHAUST, CONCERNED THAT REPAIRS WERE NEVER IDENTIFIED PROPERLY & BECAUSE WARRANTY IS OVER, DEALER AND KAWASAKI REFUSE TO MAKE ANY FURTHER EFFORTS.

Power Train › Automatic Transmission

Filed Sep 21, 1999IN

MOTORCYCLE EXPERIENCED LOCK-UP, CAUSED SKIDDING WHICH RESULTED IN DRIVER FALLING OVER, POSSIBLE TRANSMISSION FAILURE. *YC

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1996

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Assessment
2000	1	0	Routine
1999 — this page	2	0	Routine
1996	4	0	Routine
1995	2	0	Routine
1993	2	0	Routine
1992	2	0	Routine
1991	2	1	Routine
1990	1	0	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.