Kawasaki Z900, model year 2019. Filed by Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. and reported to NHTSA on 8 February 2019. 497 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (Kawasaki) is recalling certain 2019 Z900 ABS, Z900 RS ABS & Z900 RS CAFE ABS motorcycles. The ABS hydraulic unit (ABS unit) may have been contaminated with debris during the manufacturing process, possibly resulting in the front or rear wheel locking up when braking 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.
Kawasaki's own number for this recall: MC19-01. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19V083 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 19V083 cover?
- Kawasaki Z900, model year 2019.
- What is wrong with them?
- Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (Kawasaki) is recalling certain 2019 Z900 ABS, Z900 RS ABS & Z900 RS CAFE ABS motorcycles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the front or rear wheel locks up while braking, there would be an increased risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Kawasaki has notified owners, and dealers will inspect the ABS unit, replacing it as necessary, free of charge. The recall began February 15, 2019. Owners may contact Kawasaki Customer Care at 1-866-802-9381. Kawasaki's number for this recall is MC19-01.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Kawasaki calls this recall MC19-01, 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 or rear wheel locks up while braking, there would be an increased risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19V083 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Hydraulic:Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 February 2019 |
| Model years | 2019-2019 |
| Vehicles named | KAWASAKI Z900 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the front or rear wheel locks up while braking, there would be an increased risk of a crash.
The remedy
Kawasaki has notified owners, and dealers will inspect the ABS unit, replacing it as necessary, free of charge. The recall began February 15, 2019. Owners may contact Kawasaki Customer Care at 1-866-802-9381. Kawasaki's number for this recall is MC19-01.
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 19V083, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19v083/
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 19V083 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
631509e9 - Consequence
2c0ee2ee - 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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