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Japanese recall 1218420 (Harley-Davidson), 2012: 200 vehicles

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ハーレーダビッドソン Bhy, Bjy, Bmy, Bny, Bv5, Bw5. Published by MLIT as 1218420 on 29 May 2012. Part: 主ブレーキ一般.

What the notice says ソフテイル・スタンダード, ヘリテイジ・ソフテイル, ファットボーイ, ソフテイル・デラックス, ナイト　トレイン, ソフテイル・デュース, ロッカーｃ, ソフテイル・カスタム, クロスボーンズ, ファットボーイ　ロー, ブラックライン, スーパーグライド, ローライダー, ワイドグライド, スーパーグライド　カスタム, ストリートボブ, スイッチバック

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Notification number
1218420
Notified
29 May 2012
Make
Harley-Davidson（ハーレーダビッドソン）
Sold as
ソフテイル・スタンダード、ヘリテイジ・ソフテイル、ファットボーイ、ソフテイル・デラックス、ナイト　トレイン、ソフテイル・デュース、ロッカーＣ、ソフテイル・カスタム、クロスボーンズ、ファットボーイ　ロー、ブラックライン、スーパーグライド、ローライダー、ワイドグライド、スーパーグライド　カスタム、ストリートボブ、スイッチバック
Model codes
BHY, BJY, BMY, BNY, BV5, BW5, BWB, BX5, JA5, JBB, JD5, JEY, JK5, JL5, JM5, JN5, JP5, GEV, GM4, GN4, GP4, GTV, GV4, GW1, GX4, GZ4
Part at fault
主ブレーキ一般
Vehicles covered
200
Filed as
Recall, imported vehicle
Register
Japan — Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

What the ministry says is wrong

ディーラーオプションのステンレスメッシュ製ブレーキホースにおいて、ホース内側に使用されているチューブの材質が不適切であったため、よじれや曲げにより亀裂が入り、ブレーキフルードが漏れ、制動力が低下する場合がある。そのため、そのままの状態で使用を続けると、ブレーキが効かなくなるおそれがある。

What is to be done about it

全車両確認後、該当のブレーキホースが取り付けられているものは対策品と交換する。

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

ハーレーダビッドソン elsewhere in this register

ハーレーダビッドソン is named on 77 notices in the copy of MLIT’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.

The same part: 主ブレーキ一般

246 notices in this register name 主ブレーキ一般. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.

Reading this against the source

This page is what MLIT published in the recall notices it publishes, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /japan, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.

This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Japanese recalls on a Harley-Davidson: 77 in the register, and 311 Japanese vehicle recall notifications filed in 2012.

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