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Buell Blast

Every Buell Blast model year on file, 2004 to 2009. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years50 involved a crash, fire, injury or death

Model years52004 to 2009

Recall campaigns2Distinct campaigns listing it

Service bulletins5Summed across model years

By model year

The 2007 model year drew the most complaints, 2, 40% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.

Components

Suspension leads the Buell Blast complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Suspension

Fuel system

Engine and cooling

Tires

Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.

Model years

The record for each Buell Blast model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

Buell Blast by model year
Year	Body	Complaints	Severity index	Peer index	Recalls	Bulletins
2009	Not decoded	0	None	None	1	1
2008	Motorcycle	2	0.0	100	1	2
2007	Motorcycle	2	0.0	100	1	2
2006	Motorcycle	1	0.0	50	0	0
2004	Not decoded	0	None	None	1	0

Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.

Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Buell Blast

08V-439 Aug 27, 2008
Fuel tank may experience some local deformation under high-heat conditions that creates contact of the tank with the cylinder head
Fuel system · 1,335 vehicles
04V-365 Jul 23, 2004
On certain motorcycles, the valve which was designed to allow air to replace fuel in the tank during operation could malfunction thereby starving…
Fuel system · 656 vehicles

Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.