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Yamaha Fjr1300, model years 2016 to 2021. Filed by Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA and reported to NHTSA on 5 November 2021. 2,462 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA (Yamaha) is recalling certain 2016-2021 FJR13 motorcycles. The Engine Control Unit (ECU) programming installed under Recall 20V-813 (990141), that was designed to prevent gear damage, may prevent the engine from accelerating as intended.

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Yamaha's own number for this recall: 990152. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V865 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 21V865 cover?
Yamaha Fjr1300, model years 2016-2021.
What is wrong with them?
Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA (Yamaha) is recalling certain 2016-2021 FJR13 motorcycles. The Engine Control Unit (ECU) programming installed under Recall 20V-813 (990141), that was designed to prevent gear damage, may prevent the engine from accelerating as intended.
What can happen if it is not put right?
A lack of acceleration can increase the risk of a crash.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to ride their motorcycles until they are repaired. Dealers will reprogram the ECU, free of charge. Motorcycles that were previously repaired under recall 20V-813 will need to return for the new remedy. Owner notification letters were mailed November 30, 2021.
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 990152, 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 lack of acceleration can increase the risk of a crash.”

2,462vehicles potentially
affected
1model named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 5 November 2021owners told 30 November 2021today
The defect reached the regulator on 5 November 2021. Owners were written to 25 days later, on 30 November 2021. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign21V865
Filed byYamaha Motor Corporation, USA
System at faultEngine And Engine Cooling:Engine:Engine Control Module (ECU/ECM):Software
Reported to NHTSA5 November 2021
Model years2016-2021
Vehicles namedYAMAHA FJR1300

This is not an ordinary campaign.

  • Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.

What the notice says today

The consequence

A lack of acceleration can increase the risk of a crash.

The remedy

Owners are advised not to ride their motorcycles until they are repaired. Dealers will reprogram the ECU, free of charge. Motorcycles that were previously repaired under recall 20V-813 will need to return for the new remedy. Owner notification letters were mailed November 30, 2021. Owners may contact Yamaha customer service at 1-800-962-7926. Yamaha's number for this recall is 990152.

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

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CarsMultiverse, recall 21V865, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v865/

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.

Other Yamaha notices we hold

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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 21V865 on 23 August 2026, they were:

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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