Indian Chief, Indian Chief Classic, Indian Chief Vintage, Indian Chieftain, Indian Chieftain Classic, Indian Chieftain Dark Horse, model years 2014 to 2020. Filed by Indian Motorcycle Company and reported to NHTSA on 19 August 2022. 28,689 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Indian Motorcycle Company (Indian) is recalling certain 2014 Chief, 2015 Chief Classic, 2014-2018 Chieftain, 2015-2020 Chief Vintage, 2016-2018 Chieftain Darkhorse, 2016-2020 Springfield, 2017-2018 Chieftain Limited, and 2018-2019 Chieftain Classic motorcycles. The electrical connection for the Vehicle Control Module …
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: 1-19-02. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V635 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 22V635 cover?
- Indian Chief, Indian Chief Classic, Indian Chief Vintage, Indian Chieftain, Indian Chieftain Classic, Indian Chieftain Dark Horse, Indian Chieftain Limited, Indian Springfield, model years 2014-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Indian Motorcycle Company (Indian) is recalling certain 2014 Chief, 2015 Chief Classic, 2014-2018 Chieftain, 2015-2020 Chief Vintage, 2016-2018 Chieftain Darkhorse, 2016-2020 Springfield, 2017-2018 Chieftain Limited, and 2018-2019 Chieftain Classic motorcycles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The loss of lighting can reduce visibility, increasing the risk of crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace the electrical connection and VCM, as necessary. Dealers will update the VCM software, as necessary. All repairs will be performed free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 27, 2022.
- 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 1-19-02, 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: “The loss of lighting can reduce visibility, increasing the risk of crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V635 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Indian Motorcycle Company |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Lighting Control Module:Software |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 August 2022 |
| Model years | 2014-2020 |
| Vehicles named | INDIAN CHIEF, INDIAN CHIEF CLASSIC, INDIAN CHIEF VINTAGE, INDIAN CHIEFTAIN, INDIAN CHIEFTAIN CLASSIC, INDIAN CHIEFTAIN DARK HORSE, INDIAN CHIEFTAIN LIMITED, INDIAN SPRINGFIELD |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The loss of lighting can reduce visibility, increasing the risk of crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the electrical connection and VCM, as necessary. Dealers will update the VCM software, as necessary. All repairs will be performed free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 27, 2022. Owners may contact Indian customer service at 1-877-204-3697. Indian's number for this recall is I-19-02. This recall replaces NHTSA recall number 19V-339.
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 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2019252, recorded 28 May 2019 (3 years before the American filing)
Matched on I1902, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Indian Chief recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Indian Chief Classic recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Indian Chief Vintage recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Indian Chieftain recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Indian Chieftain Classic recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Indian Chieftain Dark Horse recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Indian Chieftain Limited recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Indian Springfield recalls: 8 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 22V635, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/22v635/
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 22V635 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
badecf7f - Consequence
23eee4af - 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 22V635 · how the whole register is watched
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