Buell M2 Cyclone. Published by Transport Canada as 1997065 on 26 March 1997. System: Brakes.
What the notice says On certain motorcycles, the front brake line guide could cause the front brake line hose to kink during front brake operation. This could impede return brake fluid flow and prohibit the immediate release of the front brake caliper pistons. Correction: Wire brake line guide will be removed from affected vehicles.
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Buell M2 CYCLONE in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Buell M2 CYCLONE is named on 1 British notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The British register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1997065
- Recall date
- 26 March 1997
- Make
- Buell
- Models
- M2 Cyclone
- Model years
- 1997
- Vehicle class
- Motorcycle
- System
- Brakes
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 19
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain motorcycles, the front brake line guide could cause the front brake line hose to kink during front brake operation. This could impede return brake fluid flow and prohibit the immediate release of the front brake caliper pistons. Correction: Wire brake line guide will be removed from affected vehicles.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1997065.
Buell elsewhere in this register
Buell is named on 36 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1997212 · 26 November 1997 · S2t Thunderbolt · Steering
- 1997213 · 27 November 1997 · M2 Cyclone, S3t Thunderbolt, S1 Lightning · Brakes
- 1998057 · 27 March 1998 · S1 Lightning, M2 Cyclone, S3 Thunderbolt · Lights And Instruments
- 1996022 · 2 February 1996 · S2 Thunderbolt · Structure
- 1998188 · 23 September 1998 · M2 Cyclone, S3 Thunderbolt, X1 Lightning · Suspension
- 1995123 · 20 June 1995 · S2 Thunderbolt · Fuel System
- 1995080 · 16 May 1995 · S2 Thunderbolt · Suspension
- 1999183 · 22 October 1999 · S1 Lightning, S3t Thunderbolt, S1w White Lightning · Structure
The same system: Brakes
791 notices in this register name Brakes. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1997032 · 13 February 1997 · FLD · Brakes
- 1997033 · 13 February 1997 · Mt45 Chassis · Brakes
- 1997007 · 20 January 1997 · Aeromax, Louisville · Brakes
- 1997008 · 20 January 1997 · Econoline · Brakes
- 1997005 · 15 January 1997 · Prairie 4x4 · Brakes
- 1997107 · 5 June 1997 · Caravan, Grand Caravan, Town & Country · Brakes
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Buell: 36 in the register, and 243 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1997.
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