Buell M2 Cyclone, X1 Lightning, S3T Thunderbolt, S3 Thunderbolt. Published by Transport Canada as 2000155 on 24 July 2000. System: Structure.
What the notice says Certain motorcycles were built with a rear shock absorber that could break which could cause the underside of the vehicle to drag on the ground. This could adversely affect handling and result in a crash without prior warning. Correction: Dealers will install a shock reinforcement kit.
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.
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
- 2000155
- Recall date
- 24 July 2000
- Make
- Buell
- Models
- M2 Cyclone, X1 Lightning, S3T Thunderbolt, S3 Thunderbolt
- Model years
- 1999 to 2000
- Vehicle class
- Motorcycle
- System
- Structure
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 179
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain motorcycles were built with a rear shock absorber that could break which could cause the underside of the vehicle to drag on the ground. This could adversely affect handling and result in a crash without prior warning. Correction: Dealers will install a shock reinforcement kit.
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 2000155.
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.
- 2000216 · 3 October 2000 · Blast · Powertrain
- 2000074 · 17 March 2000 · S3 Thunderbolt · Brakes
- 2000075 · 17 March 2000 · S3 Thunderbolt, X1 Lightning · Fuel System
- 1999183 · 22 October 1999 · S1 Lightning, S3t Thunderbolt, S1w White Lightning · Structure
- 1999184 · 22 October 1999 · S1 Lightning, S1w White Lightning · Electrical
- 1999185 · 22 October 1999 · X1 Lightning · Brakes
- 1999186 · 22 October 1999 · S1 Lightning, M2 Cyclone, S3 Thunderbolt · Electrical
- 1999187 · 22 October 1999 · S2 Thunderbolt, S2t Thunderbolt, S1 Lightning · Structure
The same system: Structure
800 notices in this register name Structure. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2000152 · 11 July 2000 · 387 · Structure
- 2000138 · 20 June 2000 · Van Trailer · Structure
- 2000135 · 19 June 2000 · TT600 · Structure
- 2000123 · 31 May 2000 · Alero, Grand Am · Structure
- 2000240 · 23 October 2000 · SC, SW, SL · Structure
- 2000106 · 17 April 2000 · Ram · Structure
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 311 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2000.
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