Harley-Davidson Flhp, Harley-Davidson Flhpe, Harley-Davidson Flhr, Harley-Davidson Flhrc, Harley-Davidson Flhrc103, Harley-Davidson Flhrse4, model years 2008 to 2011. Filed by Harley-Davidson Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 29 January 2018. 174,636 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling all 2008-2011 Touring, CVO Touring and VSRC motorcycles equipped with anti-lock brakes (ABS), including Road King (FLHR), Road King Police (EFI) (FLHP), Road King Police (EFI) (FLHPE), Electra Glide Standard Police (EFI) (FLHTP), Electra Glide Classic (EFI) …
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: 0171. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V076 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 18V076 cover?
- Harley-Davidson FLHP, Harley-Davidson Flhpe, Harley-Davidson FLHR, Harley-Davidson FLHRC, Harley-Davidson FLHRC103, Harley-Davidson Flhrse4, Harley-Davidson FLHT, Harley-Davidson FLHTC, model years 2008-2011.
- What is wrong with them?
- Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling all 2008-2011 Touring, CVO Touring and VSRC motorcycles equipped with anti-lock brakes (ABS), including Road King (FLHR), Road King Police (EFI) (FLHP), Road King Police (EFI) (FLHPE), Electra Glide Standard Police (EFI) (FLHTP), Electra...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- These deposits may cause a valve within the ABS Hydraulic Control Unit to stick, reducing braking ability and increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Harley-Davidson will notify owners, and dealers will flush the entire brake system with new Platinum Label DOT 4 brake fluid, free of charge. The recall began on February 14, 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. The maker calls this recall 0171, 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: “These deposits may cause a valve within the ABS Hydraulic Control Unit to stick, reducing braking ability and increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V076 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Harley-Davidson Motor Company |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Hydraulic:Fluid |
| Reported to NHTSA | 29 January 2018 |
| Model years | 2008-2011 |
| Vehicles named | HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHP, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHPE, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHR, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHRC, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHRC103, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHRSE4, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHT, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHTC, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHTCU, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHTCUSE3, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHTCUSE4, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHTCUSE5, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHTCUSE6, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHTK |
What the notice says today
The consequence
These deposits may cause a valve within the ABS Hydraulic Control Unit to stick, reducing braking ability and increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Harley-Davidson will notify owners, and dealers will flush the entire brake system with new Platinum Label DOT 4 brake fluid, free of charge. The recall began on February 14, 2018. Owners may contact Harley-Davidson customer service at 1-800-258-2464. Harley-Davidson's number for this recall is 0171.
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
- Harley-Davidson FLHP recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Harley-Davidson FLHR recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Harley-Davidson FLHRC recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Harley-Davidson Flhtcu recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Harley-Davidson FLHTK recalls: 11 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 18V076, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v076/
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.
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 18V076 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
f6ea11a6 - Consequence
5c1226c7 - 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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