Harley-Davidson Flhc, Harley-Davidson Fxbb, Harley-Davidson Fxlrs, Harley-Davidson Fxlrst, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Harley-Davidson Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 13 April 2026. 16,994 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling certain 2025-2026 FLHC, FXBB, FXLRS, and FXLRST Softail motorcycles. The rear brake line may contact the Body Control Module (BCM), resulting in a hole in the brake line, a brake fluid leak, and loss of the rear brakes.
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.
Harley Davidson's own number for this recall: 0192. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V234 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 26V234 cover?
- Harley-Davidson FLHC, Harley-Davidson FXBB, Harley-Davidson FXLRS, Harley-Davidson Fxlrst, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling certain 2025-2026 FLHC, FXBB, FXLRS, and FXLRST Softail motorcycles. The rear brake line may contact the Body Control Module (BCM), resulting in a hole in the brake line, a brake fluid leak, and loss of the rear brakes.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Loss of the rear brakes increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Harley-Davidson will replace the BCM caddy and associated hardware, free of charge. In addition, the rear brake line will be inspected and, if damaged, will be replaced along with associated parts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 1, 2026.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Harley Davidson calls this recall 0192, 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: “Loss of the rear brakes increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V234 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Harley-Davidson Motor Company |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Hydraulic:Foundation Components:Hoses, Lines/Piping, And Fittings |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 April 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLHC, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FXBB, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FXLRS, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FXLRST |
What the notice says today
The defect
Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling certain 2025-2026 FLHC, FXBB, FXLRS, and FXLRST Softail motorcycles. The rear brake line may contact the Body Control Module (BCM), resulting in a hole in the brake line, a brake fluid leak, and loss of the rear brakes.
The consequence
Loss of the rear brakes increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Harley-Davidson will replace the BCM caddy and associated hardware, free of charge. In addition, the rear brake line will be inspected and, if damaged, will be replaced along with associated parts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 1, 2026. Owners may contact Harley-Davidson customer service at 1-800-258-2464. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov April 16, 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 37ac479ac248e25bb344edc4e440686b…, 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.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Harley-Davidson FLHC recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Harley-Davidson FXLRS recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Harley-Davidson Fxlrst recalls: 4 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V234, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v234/
The copy quoted above hashes to 37ac479ac248e25bb344edc4e440686b…. 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 Harley Davidson notices we hold
- 26V270: 2024-2026 FLTRX, FLHX, 2025-2026 FXBR, FLFB, 2025 FLHXU, 2026 FLTRXL, FLTRT, FLHXL, and FLHLT motorcycles built with an Airbox Baseplate (part number 29000373)
- 25V590: RH1250S (Sportster S) motorcycles
- 25V375: 2018-2024 Softail motorcycles
- 24V753: 2022 FXRST and 2022-2024 FXLRST motorcycles
- 24V719: 2018-2019 Softail FXBB Street Bob and 2018-2019 Softail FXLR Low Rider motorcycles
- 24V672: 2024 FLHX, FLHXSE, FLTRX, FLTRXSE, and FLTRXSTSE motorcycles
- 23V836: 2023 FLHXSE (Street Glide CVO) motorcycles
- 23V672: 2023 FLHXSE and FLTRXSE motorcycles
All 40 Harley Davidson 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 26V234 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
b4ba6080 - Consequence
3460127b - 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 26V234 · how the whole register is watched
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