Kawasaki Versys, model year 2017. Filed by Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. and reported to NHTSA on 11 July 2017. 1,837 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (Kawasaki) is recalling certain 2017 Versys-X 300 motorcycles. A loose tail/brake light socket may allow the bulb to fall out.
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 17V465 cover?
- Kawasaki Versys, model year 2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (Kawasaki) is recalling certain 2017 Versys-X 300 motorcycles. A loose tail/brake light socket may allow the bulb to fall out.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Without a working tail/brake light, there is an increased risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Kawasaki will notify owners, and dealers will replace the tail/brake light socket, free of charge. The recall began on July 31, 2017. Owners may contact Kawasaki customer service at 1-866-802-9381.
- 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: “Without a working tail/brake light, there is an increased risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V465 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Brake Lights |
| Reported to NHTSA | 11 July 2017 |
| Model years | 2017-2017 |
| Vehicles named | KAWASAKI VERSYS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Without a working tail/brake light, there is an increased risk of a crash.
The remedy
Kawasaki will notify owners, and dealers will replace the tail/brake light socket, free of charge. The recall began on July 31, 2017. Owners may contact Kawasaki customer service at 1-866-802-9381.
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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 17V465, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v465/
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 17V465 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
b2a060b8 - Consequence
d484a330 - 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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