Harley-Davidson Detachable Saddlebags, model year 9999. Filed by Harley-Davidson Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 28 February 2018. 895 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling certain Detachable Saddlebags, part numbers 90201561, 90201645, 90501552, 90201644, 90201555, and 90201513. The saddlebag latching arm, part number 90200481, may disengage, allowing the saddlebag to separate from the motorcycle while riding.
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.
Harley Davidson's own number for this recall: 0172. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18E010 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 18E010 cover?
- Harley-Davidson Detachable Saddlebags.
- What is wrong with them?
- Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling certain Detachable Saddlebags, part numbers 90201561, 90201645, 90501552, 90201644, 90201555, and 90201513.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the saddlebag separates from the motorcycle while riding, it can become a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Harley-Davidson will notify owners, and dealers will install a kit onto the affected saddlebags that prevents the arm from unlatching inadvertently, free of charge. The recall began on March 9, 2018. Owners may contact Harley-Davidson customer service at 1-800-258-2464.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Harley Davidson calls this recall 0172, 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 saddlebag separates from the motorcycle while riding, it can become a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18E010 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Harley-Davidson Motor Company |
| System at fault | Equipment |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 February 2018 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | HARLEY-DAVIDSON DETACHABLE SADDLEBAGS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the saddlebag separates from the motorcycle while riding, it can become a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Harley-Davidson will notify owners, and dealers will install a kit onto the affected saddlebags that prevents the arm from unlatching inadvertently, free of charge. The recall began on March 9, 2018. Owners may contact Harley-Davidson customer service at 1-800-258-2464. Harley-Davidson's number for this recall is 0172.
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 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 18E010, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18e010/
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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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 18E010 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
6926c2e3 - Consequence
25f3de37 - 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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