Yamaha Xtz12, Yamaha Yzfr1, model years 2009 to 2013. Filed by Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA and reported to NHTSA on 10 February 2014. 24,000 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Yamaha Motor Corporation USA (Yamaha) is recalling certain model year 2009-2013 YZFR1 motorcycles manufactured October 2008 through August 2013 and 2012-2013 XTZ12 motorcycles manufactured October 2011 through August 2013. In the affected motorcycles, use of the headlight may generate enough heat to cause the bulb …
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: 990084. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V044 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 14V044 cover?
- Yamaha XTZ12, Yamaha Yzfr1, model years 2009-2013.
- What is wrong with them?
- Yamaha Motor Corporation USA (Yamaha) is recalling certain model year 2009-2013 YZFR1 motorcycles manufactured October 2008 through August 2013 and 2012-2013 XTZ12 motorcycles manufactured October 2011 through August 2013.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A headlight failure reduces the rider's ability to see clearly and the motorcycle's visibility to oncoming traffic, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Yamaha will notify owners and dealers will replace the headlight socket, free of charge. The recall began on March 10, 2014. Owners may contact Yamaha at 1-800-962-7926.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall 990084, 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: “A headlight failure reduces the rider's ability to see clearly and the motorcycle's visibility to oncoming traffic, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V044 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Headlights |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 February 2014 |
| Model years | 2009-2013 |
| Vehicles named | YAMAHA XTZ12, YAMAHA YZFR1 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A headlight failure reduces the rider's ability to see clearly and the motorcycle's visibility to oncoming traffic, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Yamaha will notify owners and dealers will replace the headlight socket, free of charge. The recall began on March 10, 2014. Owners may contact Yamaha at 1-800-962-7926.
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 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 14V044, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v044/
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.
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 14V044 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c5214128 - Consequence
f094c2ad - 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.
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