Triumph Bonneville, model years 2016 to 2017. Filed by Triumph Motorcycles America, LTD and reported to NHTSA on 16 January 2017. 1,390 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Triumph Motorcycles America, LTD (Triumph) is recalling certain 2016-2017 Bonneville T120 and Bonneville T120 Black motorcycles. During use, the heated hand grips may expand and cause the throttle to stick open.
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.
Triumph's own number for this recall: SB 546. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V035 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 17V035 cover?
- Triumph Bonneville, model years 2016-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Triumph Motorcycles America, LTD (Triumph) is recalling certain 2016-2017 Bonneville T120 and Bonneville T120 Black motorcycles. During use, the heated hand grips may expand and cause the throttle to stick open.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the throttle sticks open, there would be an increased risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Triumph will notify owners, and dealers will install a spacer to prevent the throttle from sticking, free of charge. The recall began February 20, 2017. Owners may contact Triumph customer service at 1-678-854-2010. Triumph's number for this recall is SB 546.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Triumph calls this recall SB 546, 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 throttle sticks open, there would be an increased risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V035 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Triumph Motorcycles America, LTD |
| System at fault | Steering:Steering Wheel/Handle Bar |
| Reported to NHTSA | 16 January 2017 |
| Model years | 2016-2017 |
| Vehicles named | TRIUMPH BONNEVILLE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the throttle sticks open, there would be an increased risk of a crash.
The remedy
Triumph will notify owners, and dealers will install a spacer to prevent the throttle from sticking, free of charge. The recall began February 20, 2017. Owners may contact Triumph customer service at 1-678-854-2010. Triumph's number for this recall is SB 546.
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 17V035, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v035/
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.
Other Triumph notices we hold
- 25V531: 2024-2025 Daytona 660 motorcycles
- 25V141: 2025 Speed Twin 1200, Speed Twin 1200 RS, and Speed Twin 900 motorcycles
- 24V177: 2022-2024 Speed Triple RS, and Speed Triple RR motorcycles
- 24V109: 2023 Trident 660 and Tiger Sport 660 motorcycles
- 23V730: 2020 Rocket 3 TFC, 2020-2024 Rocket 3 R, Rocket 3 GT, 2022 Rocket 3 GT Triple Black, and Rocket 3 R Black motorcycles
- 23V583: 2022-2024 Trident 660 and Tiger Sport 660 motorcycles
- 23V146: 2023 Bonneville T120 and Bonneville T120 Black motorcycles
- 23V006: 2022-2023 Speed Triple RS and Speed Triple RR motorcycles
All 42 Triumph 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 17V035 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
f66b100e - Consequence
c2e2f562 - Remedy
bc1c7f29
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 17V035 · how the whole register is watched
Put this notice on your site
A small badge that links here and names the register's reference. It costs one line of HTML and needs no key.
The badge is free to use. It links to this page and nowhere else, and it never shows advertising.
Owners of these cars
No register publishes what happens after the letter. Owners do: tell us, in two taps.
Anonymous: no account, no cookie, nothing you type is stored beyond these choices. Figures appear once 3 owners have answered, and are published with the record under CC BY 4.0.