Can-Am Spyder Rt, model year 2020. Filed by Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 27 March 2020. 1,424 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. (BRP) is recalling certain 2020 Can-Am Spyder RT motorcycles. During emergency braking situations, the support which holds the brake mechanism could break, causing a total loss of braking ability.
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.
BRP's own number for this recall: BULLETIN 2020-5. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V186 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 20V186 cover?
- Can-Am Spyder RT, model year 2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. (BRP) is recalling certain 2020 Can-Am Spyder RT motorcycles. During emergency braking situations, the support which holds the brake mechanism could break, causing a total loss of braking ability.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of braking ability can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. BRP will notify owners, and dealers will install a reinforcement bracket, free of charge. The recall began April 1, 2020. Owners may contact BRP customer service at 1-888-272-9222. BRP's number for this campaign is Bulletin 2020-5.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Brp calls this recall BULLETIN 2020-5, 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: “A loss of braking ability can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V186 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Hydraulic:Pedals And Linkages |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 March 2020 |
| Model years | 2020-2020 |
| Vehicles named | CAN-AM SPYDER RT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A loss of braking ability can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
BRP will notify owners, and dealers will install a reinforcement bracket, free of charge. The recall began April 1, 2020. Owners may contact BRP customer service at 1-888-272-9222. BRP's number for this campaign is Bulletin 2020-5.
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 20V186, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v186/
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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- 25V275: 2025 Can-Am Origin and Pulse electric motorcycles
- 24V728: 2017-2019 Can-Am Spyder F3 and RT motorcycles
- 23V175: 2020-2023 Spyder RT and 2022-2023 Ryker motorcycles
- 23V053: 2022 Cam-Am Spyder F3 and F3-S motorcycles
- 22V799: 2019-2023 Ryker motorcycles
- 22V503: 2022 Can-Am Ryker motorcycles
All 23 BRP 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 20V186 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ca0406a0 - Consequence
733289a4 - 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 20V186 · how the whole register is watched
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