Victory Boardwalk, Victory Cross Country, Victory Cross Roads, Victory Hammer, Victory Hard-Ball, Victory High-Ball, model years 2012 to 2013. Filed by Polaris Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 18 September 2012. 6,618 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Polaris is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 Victory motorcycles manufactured from January 3, 2012, through August 15, 2012. A torqueing procedure may have been missed on some throttle cable retention nuts. On certain motorcycles, the throttle cable retention nuts for either the pull or push throttle cable may …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, 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.
Polaris's own number for this recall: V-12-01. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 12V457 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 12V457 cover?
- Victory Boardwalk, Victory Cross Country, Victory Cross Roads, Victory Hammer, Victory Hard-Ball, Victory High-Ball, Victory Jackpot, Victory Judge, model years 2012-2013.
- What is wrong with them?
- Polaris is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 Victory motorcycles manufactured from January 3, 2012, through August 15, 2012. A torqueing procedure may have been missed on some throttle cable retention nuts.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the torqueing is missed and the retention nuts are loose, the retention nuts closest to the throttle body can become dislodged and interfere with the throttle function, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Victory will notify owners and dealers will correctly torque the fasteners free of charge. The safety recall began on October 4, 2012. Owners may contact Victory consumer service department by calling 1-888-704-5290.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Polaris calls this recall V-12-01, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “If the torqueing is missed and the retention nuts are loose, the retention nuts closest to the throttle body can become dislodged and interfere with the throttle function, increasing the risk of a crash.”
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in the notice
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| Campaign | 12V457 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | POLARIS INDUSTRIES, INC. |
| System at fault | Equipment |
| Reported to NHTSA | 18 September 2012 |
| Model years | 2012-2013 |
| Vehicles named | VICTORY BOARDWALK, VICTORY CROSS COUNTRY, VICTORY CROSS ROADS, VICTORY HAMMER, VICTORY HARD-BALL, VICTORY HIGH-BALL, VICTORY JACKPOT, VICTORY JUDGE, VICTORY KINGPIN, VICTORY VEGAS, VICTORY VISION |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the torqueing is missed and the retention nuts are loose, the retention nuts closest to the throttle body can become dislodged and interfere with the throttle function, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Victory will notify owners and dealers will correctly torque the fasteners free of charge. The safety recall began on October 4, 2012. Owners may contact Victory consumer service department by calling 1-888-704-5290.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Victory Cross Country recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Victory Cross Roads recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Victory High Ball recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Victory Jackpot recalls: 4 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 12V457, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/12v457/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 12V457 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c3ce5794 - Consequence
bd96a4fa - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 12V457 · how the whole register is watched
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