Kawasaki W230, model year 2025. Filed by Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. and reported to NHTSA on 23 June 2025. 482 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (KMC) is recalling certain 2025 BJ230A (W230 ABS) motorcycles. The electrical ground connection between the battery and frame may become unstable and result in an engine stall.
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.
Kawasaki's own number for this recall: MC25-06. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V363 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 25V363 cover?
- Kawasaki W230, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (KMC) is recalling certain 2025 BJ230A (W230 ABS) motorcycles. The electrical ground connection between the battery and frame may become unstable and result in an engine stall.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An engine stall increases the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. KMC will replace the battery harness and secure the ground connection, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on June 12, 2025. KMC's number for this recall is MC25-06.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Kawasaki calls this recall MC25-06, 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 engine stall increases the risk of a crash or injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V363 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. |
| System at fault | Engine |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 June 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | KAWASAKI W230 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (KMC) is recalling certain 2025 BJ230A (W230 ABS) motorcycles. The electrical ground connection between the battery and frame may become unstable and result in an engine stall.
The consequence
An engine stall increases the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
KMC will replace the battery harness and secure the ground connection, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on June 12, 2025. KMC's number for this recall is MC25-06.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to a8da135fd397df8f00d95302a3b26111…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 116 notices in the record whose component field names engine. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 50 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V363, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v363/
The copy quoted above hashes to a8da135fd397df8f00d95302a3b26111…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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 Kawasaki notices we hold
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- 25V118: 2024 Z e-1 ABS and Ninja e-1 ABS motorcycles
- 24V680: 2024 Z7 Hybrid ABS and Ninja 7 Hybrid ABS motorcycles
- 24V270: 2024 ZR900C, ZR900E and ZR900N (Z900RS ABS, Z900RS CAFE ABS, and Z900RS SE ABS) motorcycles
- 24V221: 2023-2024 ZX400S and ZX400P (2023 Ninja ZX-4RR KRT Edition, 2024 Ninja ZX-4R, and 4RR) motorcycles
- 23V515: 2023 ZX400SPFNL motorcycles
- 23V381: 2022-2023 GM 2500HD, 2022 RAM 3500, Ford F-250, F-350, F-550, and 2023 GM 3500
- 22V913: 2022 Ninja H2 SX SE (ZX1002R) motorcycles
All 19 Kawasaki 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 25V363 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
30d8dd36 - Consequence
bc5ceb16 - 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 25V363 · how the whole register is watched
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