Kawasaki Kle650 - Versys. Published by Transport Canada as 2009142 on 19 May 2009. System: Accessories.
What the notice says Certain motorcycles equipped with Kawasaki genuine accessory saddlebags may not comply with CMVSS 108 - Lighting System and Retroreflective Devices. When the saddlebags are installed, the rear reflectors become obscured. This could render the vehicle less visible to other motorists during hours of darkness, possibly …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2009142
- Recall date
- 19 May 2009
- Make
- Kawasaki
- Models
- Kle650 - Versys
- Model years
- 2008 to 2009
- Vehicle class
- Motorcycle
- System
- Accessories
- Raised as
- Compliance MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 447
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain motorcycles equipped with Kawasaki genuine accessory saddlebags may not comply with CMVSS 108 - Lighting System and Retroreflective Devices. When the saddlebags are installed, the rear reflectors become obscured. This could render the vehicle less visible to other motorists during hours of darkness, possibly resulting in a vehicle crash causing personal injury or death. Correction: Dealers will install reflectors to the side of each accessory saddlebag.
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 2009142.
Kawasaki elsewhere in this register
Kawasaki is named on 145 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2009068 · 3 March 2009 · KLR650 · Other
- 2009069 · 3 March 2009 · KLR650 · Electrical
- 2009012 · 16 January 2009 · Concours 14 ABS, Concours 14 · Brakes
- 2009356 · 17 December 2009 · Ninja 250r · Engine
- 2008383 · 20 October 2008 · KLR650 · Lights And Instruments
- 2010029 · 1 February 2010 · KL250 - Super Sherpa · Engine
- 2010073 · 12 March 2010 · Vulcan 1700 Voyager ABS, Vulcan 1700 Voyager · Other
- 2008218 · 23 June 2008 · KFX50, KFX90 · Engine
The same system: Accessories
734 notices in this register name Accessories. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2008426 · 25 November 2008 · Brookside, Sunset Creek, Bristol Bay · Accessories
- 2008410 · 17 November 2008 · Motorhome, Travel Trailer · Accessories
- 2008343 · 23 September 2008 · Jamboree Sport, Tioga Ranger · Accessories
- 2008344 · 23 September 2008 · Daybreak, Intruder, Challenger · Accessories
- 2010094 · 29 March 2010 · Tm61-Wa80-Eb4 · Accessories
- 2010124 · 19 April 2010 · Tundra, Highlander Hybrid, Highlander · Accessories
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Kawasaki: 145 in the register, and 368 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2009.
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