Harley-Davidson Fairing Lowers, Harley-Davidson Se Ohlins Inverted Forks, model year 9999. Filed by Harley-Davidson Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 8 April 2025. 222 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling certain Fairing Lowers installed on 2023-2025 Touring and CVO Touring, Inverted Forks installed on 2025 FLHXU, and Fairing Lowers and Inverted Forks kits installed on 2024-2025 FLHX and FLTRX motorcycles. These accessories may obstruct the visibility of the …
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: 0638. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25E023 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 25E023 cover?
- Harley-Davidson Fairing Lowers, Harley-Davidson Se Ohlins Inverted Forks.
- What is wrong with them?
- Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling certain Fairing Lowers installed on 2023-2025 Touring and CVO Touring, Inverted Forks installed on 2025 FLHXU, and Fairing Lowers and Inverted Forks kits installed on 2024-2025 FLHX and FLTRX motorcycles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An obstructed reflector can reduce visibility of the motorcycle to other road users, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install new reflectors, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 22, 2025. Owners may contact Harley-Davidson customer service at 1-800-258-2464. Harley-Davidson's number for this recall is 0638.
- 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 0638, 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: “An obstructed reflector can reduce visibility of the motorcycle to other road users, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25E023 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Harley-Davidson Motor Company |
| System at fault | Suspension:Rear:Motorcycle Fork/Swingarm |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 April 2025 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | HARLEY-DAVIDSON FAIRING LOWERS, HARLEY-DAVIDSON SE OHLINS INVERTED FORKS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An obstructed reflector can reduce visibility of the motorcycle to other road users, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will install new reflectors, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 22, 2025. Owners may contact Harley-Davidson customer service at 1-800-258-2464. Harley-Davidson's number for this recall is 0638.
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 732 notices in the record whose component field names suspension. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 33 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 2025187, recorded 9 April 2025 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 0638, 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 25E023, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25e023/
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 25E023 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e04d0708 - Consequence
d39b8145 - 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 25E023 · how the whole register is watched
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