Yamaha Xmax, model years 2018 to 2022. Filed by Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA and reported to NHTSA on 13 November 2025. 2,715 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Yamaha Motor Company, Ltd. (Yamaha) is recalling certain 2018-2022 XMAX scooters. The camshaft retainer bolt may loosen and not properly secure the camshaft, resulting 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.
Yamaha's own number for this recall: 990184. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V778 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 25V778 cover?
- Yamaha Xmax, model years 2018-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Yamaha Motor Company, Ltd. (Yamaha) is recalling certain 2018-2022 XMAX scooters. The camshaft retainer bolt may loosen and not properly secure the camshaft, resulting in an engine stall.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An engine stall can cause a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to ride their scooter until the remedy has been completed. Dealers will install a new camshaft plate kit, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed November 20, 2025. Owners may contact Yamaha's customer service at 1-800-962-7926.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Yamaha calls this recall 990184, 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.
This is one of the small number of campaigns where owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all until it is repaired.
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V778 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Critical Fasteners |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 November 2025 |
| Model years | 2018-2022 |
| Vehicles named | YAMAHA XMAX |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.
What the notice says today
The defect
Yamaha Motor Company, Ltd. (Yamaha) is recalling certain 2018-2022 XMAX scooters. The camshaft retainer bolt may loosen and not properly secure the camshaft, resulting in an engine stall.
The consequence
An engine stall can cause a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Owners are advised not to ride their scooter until the remedy has been completed. Dealers will install a new camshaft plate kit, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed November 20, 2025. Owners may contact Yamaha's customer service at 1-800-962-7926. Yamaha's number for this recall is 990184. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning November 24, 2025.
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 638175750ac81b930949e40b61413c30…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 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 25V778, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v778/
The copy quoted above hashes to 638175750ac81b930949e40b61413c30…. 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.
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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 25V778 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
4bed6ce4 - Consequence
4583c9fd - 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 25V778 · how the whole register is watched
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