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Notification number
1104690
Notified
30 January 1997
Make
Kawasaki(カワサキ)
Sold as
バルカン1500クラシック
Model codes
VNT50D
Part at fault
バッテリー
Vehicles covered
684
Filed as
Recall
Register
Japan — Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

What the ministry says is wrong

 運転者席の座席底板部とバッテリ端子部との隙間が少ないため、乗車時に座席がたわむ ことにより当該底板部が端子部を押して、最悪の場合、バッテリ端子部が破損して、エン ジンが停止するおそれがある。

What is to be done about it

 全車両、バッテリの敷板を取り除くとともに、バッテリ用リード線を対策品と交換する 。また、バッテリ端子部に損傷が認められた場合には、バッテリを新品と交換する。

The two passages above are quoted in Japanese because that is the language the ministry published them in. This site keeps the wording a register had when it was read, and does not translate a safety notice.

Source: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism website (出典:国土交通省ウェブサイト), used under the Public Data License 1.0. This site gathered the record, grouped it by notification number and set it in English around the ministry's own words; the notice itself is unaltered. CarsMultiverse is not the ministry and not a safety authority. To act on this notice, use the ministry's own document.

The Japanese register on this site

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