Mv Agusta F4, model years 2015 to 2017. Filed by MV Agusta USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 22 December 2017. 34 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says MV Agusta USA, LLC (MV Agusta) is recalling certain 2015-2017 F4 RC and F4 RR motorcycles. These motorcycles are equipped with Brembo front brake master cylinders that may fail.
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.
MV Agusta's own number for this recall: 18RC01. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V839 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 17V839 cover?
- MV Agusta F4, model years 2015-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- MV Agusta USA, LLC (MV Agusta) is recalling certain 2015-2017 F4 RC and F4 RR motorcycles. These motorcycles are equipped with Brembo front brake master cylinders that may fail.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the front brake master cylinder fails, the loss of front braking ability can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. MV Agusta will notify owners, and dealers will replace the front brake master cylinder piston, free of charge. The began on January 19, 2018. Owners may contact MV Agusta customer service at 1-215-781-1770. MV Agusta's number for this recall is 18RC01.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Mv Agusta calls this recall 18RC01, 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 front brake master cylinder fails, the loss of front braking ability can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V839 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | MV Agusta USA, LLC |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Hydraulic:Foundation Components:Master Cylinder |
| Reported to NHTSA | 22 December 2017 |
| Model years | 2015-2017 |
| Vehicles named | MV AGUSTA F4 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the front brake master cylinder fails, the loss of front braking ability can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
MV Agusta will notify owners, and dealers will replace the front brake master cylinder piston, free of charge. The began on January 19, 2018. Owners may contact MV Agusta customer service at 1-215-781-1770. MV Agusta's number for this recall is 18RC01.
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 583 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, hydraulic. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 37 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 17V839, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v839/
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 MV Agusta notices we hold
- 18V458: 2018 MV Agusta Brutale 800 Dragster RC, F3 800RC, and F3 800 motorcycles
- 17V772: 2017 Brutale 800 Dragster RR motorcycles
- 11V232: MODEL YEAR 2010 F4 MOTORCYCLES FOR THE REAR SUBFRAME
All 4 MV Agusta 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 17V839 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
21ce0145 - Consequence
b86d96dc - 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.
The wording we hold for 17V839 · how the whole register is watched
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