2002 Honda VTX1800 defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2002 Honda VTX1800. 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…

• UNINTENDED SIDE-STAND DEPLOYMENT
  Preliminary Evaluation PE04063 · opened Sep 15, 2004 · closed Jan 21, 2005 · led to recall 04V564000

  This pe was opened to examine reports of unintended motorcycle side-stand deployment while underway.if the stand deploys while the motorcycle is being ridden, the side-stand interlock (designed to prevent riding with the stand deployed) will cause the engine to stall.additionally, sudden, unintended side-stand deployme…