Yamaha Yzfr3, model years 2015 to 2018. Filed by Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA and reported to NHTSA on 4 December 2018. 16,760 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA (Yamaha) is recalling certain 2015-2018 Yamaha YZFR3 motorcycles. The upper radiator hose may crack resulting in a coolant leak.
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.
Yamaha's own number for this recall: 990125. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V861 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 18V861 cover?
- Yamaha Yzfr3, model years 2015-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA (Yamaha) is recalling certain 2015-2018 Yamaha YZFR3 motorcycles. The upper radiator hose may crack resulting in a coolant leak.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If coolant leaks onto the rear tire, it can cause a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Yamaha will notify owners, and dealers will install a new upper radiator hose, free of charge. The recall began December 17, 2018. Owners may contact Yamaha customer service at 1-800-962-7926. Yamaha's number for this recall is 990125.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Yamaha calls this recall 990125, 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 coolant leaks onto the rear tire, it can cause a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V861 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Cooling System:Hoses/Lines/Piping/Fittings |
| Reported to NHTSA | 4 December 2018 |
| Model years | 2015-2018 |
| Vehicles named | YAMAHA YZFR3 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If coolant leaks onto the rear tire, it can cause a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Yamaha will notify owners, and dealers will install a new upper radiator hose, free of charge. The recall began December 17, 2018. Owners may contact Yamaha customer service at 1-800-962-7926. Yamaha's number for this recall is 990125.
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 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 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 18V861, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v861/
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 18V861 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ea15c0c2 - Consequence
2937b8b1 - 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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