2001 Honda GL1800 defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2001 Honda GL1800. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Southern Honda Powersports
  Audit Query AQ12001 · opened May 14, 2012 · closed May 13, 2013

  NHTSA opened Audit Query (AQ) 12-001 to determine whether Southern Honda Powersports (Southern Honda) of Chattanooga, Tennessee, had complied with the requirements of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act, as amended, 49 U.S.C. Chapter 301 (Safety Act) and its implementing regulations. The Safety Act requir…

• FRAME CROSSMEMEBER WELD FAILURES
  Recall Query RQ04009 · opened Sep 21, 2004 · closed Feb 2, 2005 · led to recall 05V027000

  Honda is amending the scope of 03v-350 to add 34,919 potentially affected gl1800 gold wing motorcycles.the initial recall range included frames manufactured with one of a number of welding processes.honda believed, on the basis of data available at that time, that only those gl's built with that one process were at ris…

• REAR SUSPENSION COLLAPSE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE03039 · opened Aug 11, 2003 · closed Oct 10, 2003 · led to recall 03V350000

  The subject motorcycles, introduced with the 2001 model year, utilize an aluminum frame individually welded by honda employees in the company?s marysville, ohio assembly plant.nhtsa/odi opened this investigation after learning that some 2002 model year gl1800?s were experiencing rear suspension collapse when the lowest…

• MOTORCYCLE COOLANT SPRAY ONTO REAR TIRE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE02077 · opened Oct 15, 2002 · closed Mar 28, 2003

  See the attached report with odi'sfindings.