Ducati Xdiavel S, Ducati Xdiavel Std, model years 2016 to 2023. Filed by Ducati North America and reported to NHTSA on 6 December 2023. 2,906 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Ducati North America (Ducati) is recalling certain 2016-2023 XDiavel S and XDiavel STD motorcycles. The passenger backrest may break if it is installed incorrectly or used incorrectly by the passenger.
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.
Ducati's own number for this recall: SRV-RCL-23-005. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V820 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 23V820 cover?
- Ducati Xdiavel S, Ducati Xdiavel STD, model years 2016-2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Ducati North America (Ducati) is recalling certain 2016-2023 XDiavel S and XDiavel STD motorcycles. The passenger backrest may break if it is installed incorrectly or used incorrectly by the passenger.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A broken passenger backrest may result in the passenger falling off the motorcycle, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect the passenger backrest installation, tighten the screws as necessary, and also apply a warning sticker on the component, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 19, 2024. Owners may contact Ducati customer service at 1-888-391-5446.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Ducati calls this recall SRV-RCL-23-005, 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 broken passenger backrest may result in the passenger falling off the motorcycle, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V820 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ducati North America |
| System at fault | Seats:Motorcycle |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 December 2023 |
| Model years | 2016-2023 |
| Vehicles named | DUCATI XDIAVEL S, DUCATI XDIAVEL STD |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A broken passenger backrest may result in the passenger falling off the motorcycle, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect the passenger backrest installation, tighten the screws as necessary, and also apply a warning sticker on the component, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 19, 2024. Owners may contact Ducati customer service at 1-888-391-5446. Ducati's number for this recall is SRV-RCL-23-005.
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 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 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 23V820, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v820/
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 23V820 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
91ba7868 - Consequence
74f8d224 - 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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