Royal Enfield Himalayan, model years 2017 to 2021. Filed by Royal Enfield North America Limited and reported to NHTSA on 27 February 2023. 4,891 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Royal Enfield North America Limited (Royal Enfield) is recalling certain 2017-2021 Himalayan motorcycles. The salt used to treat the roads in the winter may corrode the brake calipers, causing a decrease or total loss of brake function.
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.
Royal Enfield's own number for this recall: SC-31. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V129 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 23V129 cover?
- Royal Enfield Himalayan, model years 2017-2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Royal Enfield North America Limited (Royal Enfield) is recalling certain 2017-2021 Himalayan motorcycles. The salt used to treat the roads in the winter may corrode the brake calipers, causing a decrease or total loss of brake function.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of brake function can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the front and rear brake calipers, free of charge. The manufacturer has not yet provided a schedule for recall notification. Owners may contact Royal Enfield's customer service at 1-866-600-1122. Royal Enfield's number for this recall is SC-31.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Royal Enfield calls this recall SC-31, 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 brake function can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V129 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Royal Enfield North America Limited |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Hydraulic:Foundation Components:Disc:Caliper |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 February 2023 |
| Model years | 2017-2021 |
| Vehicles named | ROYAL ENFIELD HIMALAYAN |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A loss of brake function can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the front and rear brake calipers, free of charge. The manufacturer has not yet provided a schedule for recall notification. Owners may contact Royal Enfield's customer service at 1-866-600-1122. Royal Enfield's number for this recall is SC-31.
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 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 2023118, recorded 7 March 2023 (8 days after the American filing)
Matched on SC31, 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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 23V129, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v129/
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 Royal Enfield notices we hold
- 24V713: 2023 Himalayan, Classic 350, Meteor 350, Hunter 350, Super Meteor 650, Int 650, and Continental GT 650 motorcycles
- 21V045: 2018-2020 Continental GT 650 and Interceptor 650 motorcycles
All 3 Royal Enfield 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 23V129 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
08892721 - Consequence
1e2cbe5a - 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 23V129 · how the whole register is watched
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