Ohlins Steering Damper, model year 9999. Filed by Ohlins Racing AB and reported to NHTSA on 19 June 2013. 801 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Ohlins Racing AB (Ohlins) is recalling certain steering dampers manufactured with an incorrectly machined bracket. These dampers were sold for use as aftermarket equipment on BMW S1000RR and R1200R motorcycles. The affected brackets may crack.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 13E034 cover?
- Ohlins Steering Damper.
- What is wrong with them?
- Ohlins Racing AB (Ohlins) is recalling certain steering dampers manufactured with an incorrectly machined bracket. These dampers were sold for use as aftermarket equipment on BMW S1000RR and R1200R motorcycles. The affected brackets may crack.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If there is a crack in the steering bracket, as low speeds it may cause the steering to lock, leading to personal injury or a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Ohlins will notify the distributors and provide their customers with a new bracket. The recall began on July 2, 2013. Owners may contact Ohlins USA at 1-828-692-4525.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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 there is a crack in the steering bracket, as low speeds it may cause the steering to lock, leading to personal injury or a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 13E034 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ohlins Racing AB |
| System at fault | Steering |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 June 2013 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | OHLINS STEERING DAMPER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If there is a crack in the steering bracket, as low speeds it may cause the steering to lock, leading to personal injury or a crash.
The remedy
Ohlins will notify the distributors and provide their customers with a new bracket. The recall began on July 2, 2013. Owners may contact Ohlins USA at 1-828-692-4525.
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 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 13E034, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13e034/
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.
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Other Ohlins notices we hold
- 20E091: Front Struts, part number POS 5N20
- 15E025: TTX36 aftermarket motorcycle shock absorbers manufactured November 5, 2013, to February 20, 2015
- 14E012: steering dampers kits manufactured with an incorrectly machined bracket
All 4 Ohlins campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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 13E034 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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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.
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