1998 Suzuki Gsx-R600

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the engine and engine cooling › engine. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine	1		0	0	1

What owners reported

Newest filings

Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine1 injured

Filed Aug 17, 2002IL

CONSUMERS VEHICLE IS WORKING ON THE THIRD TENSIONER. TWICE THE TENSIONER HAS BEEN REPLACED AND NOW NEEDS ANOTHER ONE. THERE IS A LOUD CLICKING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE VEHICLE NEAR THE ENGINE. THE ORIGINAL WAS REPLACED BUT ONLY LASTED 200 MILES. THERE IS A RECALL CURRENTLY OUT REGARDING THE CAM CHAIN TENSIONER. CONSUMER ALSO HAD A LOCK UP OCCUR WHEN THE SHAFT LINKAGE SNAPPED AND WRAPPED AROUND THE COUNTERSHAFT SPROCKET, LOCKING THE REAR TIRE AND THROWING CONSUMER RESULTING IN A BROKEN COLLAR BONE. *JG

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2007

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Deaths	Assessment
2013	1	1	0	0	Routine
2012	0	1	0	0	Routine
2011	0	1	0	0	Routine
2010	0	2	0	0	Routine
2009	1	3	1	0	Routine
2008	5	3	0	0	Routine
2007	44	1	5	0	Routine
2006	38	1	1	2	Fatalities reported
2005	5	1	0	0	Routine
2004	2	1	0	0	Routine
2003	3	1	0	0	Routine
2002	1	1	0	0	Routine
2001	2	1	0	0	Routine
2000	2	0	0	0	Routine
1999	3	1	0	0	Routine
1998 — this page	1	0	0	0	Routine
1997	1	1	0	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.