Kawasaki Concours 14, model years 2009 to 2013. Filed by Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. and reported to NHTSA on 27 February 2015. 194 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (Kawasaki) is recalling certain model year 2009-2013 Kawasaki Concours 14 and 14ABS motorcycles manufactured May 8, 2008, to February 20, 2013, and modified for police authority use. The additional police accessories may cause the 30-amp main fuse to blow. Also, the additional police …
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.
Kawasaki's own number for this recall: MC15-02. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 15V117 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 15V117 cover?
- Kawasaki Concours 14, model years 2009-2013.
- What is wrong with them?
- Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (Kawasaki) is recalling certain model year 2009-2013 Kawasaki Concours 14 and 14ABS motorcycles manufactured May 8, 2008, to February 20, 2013, and modified for police authority use. The additional police accessories may cause the 30-amp main fuse to blow.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the fuse blows, the engine will stall, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Kawasaki has notified the affected police departments and will send trained personnel to repair the motorcycles, free of charge. The recall began April 13, 2015. Owners may contact Kawasaki customer service at 1-866-802-9381. Kawasaki 's number for this recall is MC15-02.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Kawasaki calls this recall MC15-02, 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 fuse blows, the engine will stall, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 15V117 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Wiring:Fuses And Circuit Breakers |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 February 2015 |
| Model years | 2009-2013 |
| Vehicles named | KAWASAKI CONCOURS 14 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the fuse blows, the engine will stall, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Kawasaki has notified the affected police departments and will send trained personnel to repair the motorcycles, free of charge. The recall began April 13, 2015. Owners may contact Kawasaki customer service at 1-866-802-9381. Kawasaki 's number for this recall is MC15-02. Note: This recall is an expansion of recalls 12V-134, 13V-370 and 13V-387.
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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 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 15V117, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15v117/
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 15V117 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
239167bb - Consequence
485e8a7d - 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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