Suzuki Dr-Z400s, Suzuki Dr-Z400sm, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Suzuki Motor USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 17 December 2025. 3,003 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Suzuki Motor USA, LLC (Suzuki) is recalling certain 2025-2026 DR-Z400S and 2025 DR-Z400SM motorcycles. The reservoir tank cap fixing screws may have been incorrectly tightened, allowing brake fluid to leak. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) …
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.
Suzuki's own number for this recall: 3A09. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V873 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 25V873 cover?
- Suzuki Dr-Z400S, Suzuki Dr-Z400Sm, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Suzuki Motor USA, LLC (Suzuki) is recalling certain 2025-2026 DR-Z400S and 2025 DR-Z400SM motorcycles. The reservoir tank cap fixing screws may have been incorrectly tightened, allowing brake fluid to leak.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A brake fluid leak can reduce braking ability, increasing the distance required to stop and the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will tighten the screws, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 9, 2026. Owners may contact Suzuki customer service at 1-800-934-0934. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on December 20, 2025.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Suzuki calls this recall 3A09, 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 brake fluid leak can reduce braking ability, increasing the distance required to stop and the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V873 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Suzuki Motor USA, LLC |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Hydraulic:Critical Fasteners |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 December 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | SUZUKI DR-Z400S, SUZUKI DR-Z400SM |
What the notice says today
The defect
Suzuki Motor USA, LLC (Suzuki) is recalling certain 2025-2026 DR-Z400S and 2025 DR-Z400SM motorcycles. The reservoir tank cap fixing screws may have been incorrectly tightened, allowing brake fluid to leak. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 122, “Motorcycle Brake Systems.”
The consequence
A brake fluid leak can reduce braking ability, increasing the distance required to stop and the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will tighten the screws, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 9, 2026. Owners may contact Suzuki customer service at 1-800-934-0934. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on December 20, 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 435819e13fb7251aff3f9b3d85168ef5…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 583 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, hydraulic. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 37 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 25V873, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v873/
The copy quoted above hashes to 435819e13fb7251aff3f9b3d85168ef5…. 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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- 21V558: 2019-2020 Burgman 200 UH200 scooters
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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 25V873 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
60a41b27 - Consequence
5886ca10 - Remedy
18e532e2
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 25V873 · how the whole register is watched
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