2023 KTM 1290 Super Adventure S

Routine

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

What fails

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

What owners reported

Newest filings

Engine

Filed Jun 1, 2026KS

While driving the motorcycle at random times the engine stops running and looses power. The motorcycle has been looked at by a dealer multiple times and found no issues. The motorcycle screen goes blank and reboots. That is when it looses power. The screen when it reboots flashes a red bar at bottom of screen that first says TC failure, then changes to ECU failure. The Engine warning light is displayed as well as the TC warning light. Sometimes it stays running other times it shuts off. This problem has been going on for several months even before the e-throttle recall was performed and has continued since that recall fix was applied. I have pictures of the screen and a video of it occurring.

Fuel/Propulsion System

Filed Sep 2, 2025MI

The gas gauge has not worked since bought new in August 2024. This bike has been in dealers for months on end, half the time I've owned it. It is a lemon if that applies to motorcycles. I would like KTM to buy it back.

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2023

Year	Complaints	Assessment
2023 — this page	2	Routine
2022	2	Routine
2020	2	Routine
2019	1	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.