2018 Triumph Bonneville Bobber

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the exterior lighting. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Exterior Lighting1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Exterior Lighting
Filed Jun 22, 2023OR

1.) I would like to begin by saying that my bike is nearly brand new. Only just over 4k miles. So, the following problem is not in any way a result of the bike being an old or beaten down vehicle. The rear brake light and turn signals failed due to the cable that runs under the rear fender to the rear lights (being suspended by very weak and half attached thin metal tabs) becoming dislodged from their incredibly suspect holding tabs and rubbing on the tire. Thus, stripping and destroying the cable. This is available for inspection upon request. The way the cable is attached is the crux of the complaint I am making. It is unfathomable how this could have not only been designed in the first place, but then approved for production. 2.) If the tire had gotten hold of the cable and ripped it from the bike I could have been thrown from the bike and killed. This is an incredibly unsafe and extremely poorly designed portion of the bike. In addition to the feature having the ability to kill any rider it also has resulted in the lights not working. Not having brake lights or turn signals in the rear can result in other drivers not knowing what you are doing and causing an accident. 3.) To my knowledge this problem has not been addressed in any way by the manufacturer or any other person. I am currently waiting for an upcoming appointment with the dealer to address this issue. 4.) There was no warning of the possibility of this issue. One moment it works perfectly fine, next it is sent

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2022
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20221000Routine
2018 — this page1000Routine

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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.