Yamaha Venture 600 (Vt600), Vmax Xt (Vx6Xt), Venture 500 (Vt500), Vmax Xt (Vx5Xt), Vmax Xt (Vx7Xt), Venture 700 (Vt700). Published by Transport Canada as 1999050 on 25 March 1999. System: Engine.
What the notice says On certain snowmobiles, the bolts securing the starter ring gear to the drive clutch could loosen and allow the starter ring gear to become jammed and break into pieces. This could result in personal injury to the operator and/or bystanders. Correction: Ring gear assemblies will be replaced.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1999050
- Recall date
- 25 March 1999
- Make
- Yamaha
- Models
- Venture 600 (vt600), Vmax XT (vx6xt), Venture 500 (vt500), Vmax XT (vx5xt), Vmax XT (vx7xt), Venture 700 (vt700), Vmax (vx700), Vmax (vx600), Venture XL 500 (vt500xlc), Vmax (vx500)
- Model years
- 1997 to 1999
- Vehicle class
- Snowmobile
- System
- Engine
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 7,324
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain snowmobiles, the bolts securing the starter ring gear to the drive clutch could loosen and allow the starter ring gear to become jammed and break into pieces. This could result in personal injury to the operator and/or bystanders. Correction: Ring gear assemblies will be replaced.
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 1999050.
Yamaha elsewhere in this register
Yamaha is named on 146 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1999141 · 27 July 1999 · Yzf1000r (yzf10rk), Yzf-R1 · Engine
- 1998196 · 29 September 1998 · Yzf1000r (yzf10rk) · Powertrain
- 1998099 · 20 May 1998 · Mountain Max, Vmax (vx600), Vmax (vx700) · Steering
- 2000070 · 17 March 2000 · Yzf1000r (yzf10rk), Yzf-R1, Yzf-R6 · Structure
- 2000071 · 17 March 2000 · Yzf1000r (yzf10rk), Yzf-R1 · Brakes
- 1997232 · 29 December 1997 · SRX600, SRX700, Mountain Max · Brakes
- 1997226 · 19 December 1997 · Royal Star (xvz13) · Lights And Instruments
- 1997111 · 6 June 1997 · Vmax (vx700), Vmax (vx600), Mountain Max · Fuel System
The same system: Engine
287 notices in this register name Engine. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1999016 · 15 February 1999 · Sunfire, Cavalier · Engine
- 1999022 · 15 February 1999 · Dyna Super Glide (fxd), Tour Glide (flt), Electra Glide (flh) · Engine
- 1999105 · 31 May 1999 · Gsx-R750, Gsx-R600 · Engine
- 1998219 · 10 November 1998 · XJ12 · Engine
- 1998201 · 21 October 1998 · Intrigue · Engine
- 2000109 · 28 April 2000 · Cavalier, Sunfire · Engine
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 Yamaha: 146 in the register, and 240 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1999.
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