1999 Suzuki Katana

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the power train › manual transmission. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Power Train › Manual Transmission1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Power Train › Manual Transmission
Filed Jun 21, 2000OH

CONSUMER COULD NOT JUST DOWNSHIFT, BUT HAD TO ENGAGE AND DISENGAGE TRANSMISSION TO COME TO A LOWER GEAR. CONSUMER SAID THIS WAS UNSAFE, ESPECIALLY IF OTHER VEHICLES WERE BEHIND CONSUMER'S VEHICLE BECAUSE IT COULD BE HIT. SOMETIMES IT WORKED RIGHT, BUT SOMETIMES IT DIDN'T. TOOK VEHICLE TO DEALER ,AND THEY SAID IT WAS NORMAL. ALSO WHEN STARTING IN GEAR, THE BIKE WOULD JUMP FORWARD. *AK

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2006
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20061010Routine
20011000Routine
20001000Routine
1999 — this page1000Routine
19980100Routine

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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.