Kawasaki Ninja Zx-6r, model years 2024 to 2026. Filed by Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. and reported to NHTSA on 18 November 2025. 19,823 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (Kawasaki) is recalling certain 2024-2026 Ninja ZX-6R, ZX-6R KRT Edition, ZX-6R KRT 40th Anniversary Edition ABS, ZX-6R ABS, and ZX-6R KRT Edition ABS motorcycles. The motorcycles may lose engine power during operation due to seizure of a metal crankshaft bushing.
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: MC25-11. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V798 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 25V798 cover?
- Kawasaki Ninja Zx-6R, model years 2024-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (Kawasaki) is recalling certain 2024-2026 Ninja ZX-6R, ZX-6R KRT Edition, ZX-6R KRT 40th Anniversary Edition ABS, ZX-6R ABS, and ZX-6R KRT Edition ABS motorcycles. The motorcycles may lose engine power during operation due to seizure of a metal crankshaft bushing.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An engine stall increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to ride their motorcycles until the repair has been completed. Dealers will re-tighten the metal crankshaft bushing, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 15, 2025.
- 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 MC25-11, 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 | 25V798 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Engine:Hard Parts Internal/Mechanical |
| Reported to NHTSA | 18 November 2025 |
| Model years | 2024-2026 |
| Vehicles named | KAWASAKI NINJA ZX-6R |
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
Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (Kawasaki) is recalling certain 2024-2026 Ninja ZX-6R, ZX-6R KRT Edition, ZX-6R KRT 40th Anniversary Edition ABS, ZX-6R ABS, and ZX-6R KRT Edition ABS motorcycles. The motorcycles may lose engine power during operation due to seizure of a metal crankshaft bushing.
The consequence
An engine stall increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Owners are advised not to ride their motorcycles until the repair has been completed. Dealers will re-tighten the metal crankshaft bushing, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 15, 2025. Motorcycles in this recall that were previously repaired under recall 25V376 will need to have the new remedy performed, once available. Owners may contact Kawasaki customer service at (855) 878-4217.
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 69d105bc05b1261c9841ebd448079081…, 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.
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 25V798, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v798/
The copy quoted above hashes to 69d105bc05b1261c9841ebd448079081…. 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
- 26V387: 2025-2026 W230 motorcycles
- 25V376: 2024-2025 Ninja ZX-6R motorcycles
- 24V833: Z7 Hybrid ABS and Ninja 7 Hybrid ABS motorcycles
- 20V307: 2019-2020 NINJA ZX-10R, NINJA ZX-10R ABS, and NINJA ZX-10R ABS KRT EDITION motorcycles
- 19V083: 2019 Z900 ABS, Z900 RS ABS & Z900 RS CAFE ABS motorcycles
- 18V580: 2018 Kawasaki Ninja H2 SX SE (ZXT02BJ) motorcycles
- 17V774: 2017-2018 Z125 PRO & PRO KRT Edition motorcycles, models BR125JHF and BR125JJF
- 17V465: 2017 Versys-X 300 motorcycles
All 28 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 25V798 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e0476251 - Consequence
15f9fb14 - 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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